Pregnancy setting/mode for more accurate data

[JLMD]

Necessary:

Logging a pregnancy is a must, as is the ammenorheic period due to breastfeeding.  These drastically affect predictions making the app useless for many.  Eg. I have entered my data since 2011.  My periods are like clock work occurring every 27 days... but I have had 4 pregnancies in that time so the app is telling me that my peiods average every 104 days.

Useful:

Option to add basal body temp and ovulation data (eg. predictor strip).

Moderator edit: title

[hrs374]

The female health tracker is great to know where you are in your cycle but it should really have an option to add in pregnancy and work out how many weeks you are based on the first day of your last period. When you have a fertility tracker already integrated, it would make sense to add in a pregnancy to the app! 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @hrs374! thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @JayLove514, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on the Fitbit app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Sarah931, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on the Fitbit app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

[WhitDC]

I would like to be able to track my pregnancies and when I’m lactating. Pregnancy obviously changes caloric and fluid needs as well as weight gain. When pregnant, most women need 300 more calories a day. When lactating, women need 500 calories more each day. If I can track when I am ovulating and have potential to conceive, it would be nice (and only makes sense) that I can track when I actually do conceive. Thank you!

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @WhitDC, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on the Fitbit app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[MegSharma]

As breastfeeding can burn 200-500 calories per day, I think there should be an option for users to add that to their calories burned. Just like a blank space in activities that you can put your own activity and the approx calories burned. 

[EdsonFitbit]

Hi @MegSharma, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us, this feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here to keep this board organized.

[Kstewy]

The period tracker should also be able to track your period like other apps, be easy and convenient 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Kstewy, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on the Fitbit app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[AshleyC2020]

There is no option to select you are pregnant in the period tracker.

This would help for false/inaccurate tracking for those 9 months. 
It would also store and share data related to pregnancy depending on what info could be logged. 
It would be cool also if there was a pregnancy tracker in place to keep track of the weeks gestation of pregnancy. 

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @AshleyC2020. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you would like to have a pregnancy setting in the Fitbit app. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While this isn't currently planned at this moment, we have left voting open so we can keep tracking this request over time. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

[SunsetRunner]

It hasn't and was not able to help during a time in my life that is momentous for so many women. You NEED TO ADD PREGNANCY tracking features to this. How can you call it female health tracking when you do not allow for even the documentation of being pregnant.  That is half of the women's health speciality (OB/GYN) and you all refuse to even consider adding it. It isn't on your radar and all mentions of having it added are pushed to the thread of no return and forgotten about. "Go ahead and vote for this feature but just so you know we are not considering it at this time." There are so many apps that do this if you don't want to spend the "man" hours developing this critical piece, collaborate with another group. 

It really shows how little value women really have to this company. 

[LizFitbit]

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing suggestions for pregnancy mode, which have received a lot of votes from other community members. I have combined multiple suggestions for pregnancy mode but understand it's wanted for accurate cycle prediction, for accurate calories estimates (during pregnancy and nursing) and for more accurate HR.

I’m happy to let you know that this suggestion has been picked up internally at Fitbit and is being considered by our team. This suggestion will either remain ‘Under Consideration’ until released, or else move to ‘Not Currently Planned’ if it’s not viable right now. Further updates will be posted here.

Please remember that if a suggestion is chosen for development, it can take some time before updates are available or a release is finalized, so thanks in advance for your patience. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs. Fans can continue to vote for this feature suggestion while it is under consideration.

[Decchan]

I really hope this gets approved. It was disappointing to receive this as a gift only to learn it won't even work for me. The app thinks I'm overweight and have poor cardiac health. All the features of a pregnancy mode wouldn't even have to come out at once, just please start with preventing pregnancy from messing with existing features. I don't understand why one would decide to implement fertility functions and not take into account the existence of the end goal of said functions.

[Kyecash3]

How is it that this post from May 2918 is “under consideration” when it is now December 2019? That’s a year and a half! I understand new developments take time, but surely female health should take a priority to “a favorites of clock faces section?!”

I just got the Fitbit and was so excited to use it. I wish the female tracker app would allow pregnancy tracking or an “exclude cycle” based on differentiation from normal cycles. Such as when I forget to log a cycle. Whether the app does that itself or I can do it. I would recommend looking at apps such as “Clue” (does a great job of excluding odd cycles) or pregnancy specific apps that take into consideration you’re pregnant. However, I’ve never found an app that does BOTH cycle tracking AND pregnancy tracking. Perhaps Fitbit can be the first!

[Labranson]

Period tracker tracks both periods AND pregnancy incredibly accurately. I
wish, if anything, Fitbit was compatible with that app.

[erbaxter]

AGREE. Come on guys you can do it!

[RKitty]

We definitely need a Pregnancy option - even if only to stop the period notifications and to accurately track the period cycle before and after. Of course, it would be more beneficial if it factored in how you are not out of shape for pregnancy weight gain or heart rate increases, etc. "Female Health" was a marketed aspect of my Fitbit so it's extremely disappointing that Pregnancy is not a part of the health tracking in any way, and that "female Health tracking" in general is very lacking with Fitbit.

[etzlers1]

I am so happy to hear this has been moved back to under consideration. This is a much needed feature that I am certain the development team is 100% capable of completing and I look forward to hearing good progress on this feature in the future.

[kialee]

Fitbit, please give us breastfeeding mothers an easier option to accommodate for the extra calories required for nursing.

I just set up a new Fitbit and was frustrated that there's no option to account for the approximately 300-500 extra calories needed to support breastfeeding.

The only 2 ways I can make Fitbit give me the extra caloric allowance is 1) change my weight goals to maintain or gain, or 2) create a custom exercise for breastfeeding which needs to be input daily.

Both of these options are inconvenient and don't factor in seamlessly with overall stats and goals.

Thank you and Happy New Year and Decade!

[Hm37]

For a woman to track her body through her period, into her fertile days, and then to discover she is pregnant, she is left with no other choice but to turn off female tracking on the app as there is no place to log a pregnancy and no sensible for the lack of a period data to be charted. This causes all of the cycles to be messed up in the future as the data collected believes there is one long gap between cycles. As others have suggested, to truly put female health tracking and female fitness first, there should also be a post pregnancy tracker to help new mothers in healing and slowly finding fitness again. It is a pointless feature to have the female health tracker and call it such when it falls so short in what women have the power to do and the support they need in the process of being pregnant and after pregnancy. Please make it a proper true female health tracker and guide through the challenges of what it means when a woman does get pregnant. Maybe partner with Flo, What to Expect, or Baby Center for advice on how they handle informing expecting or new mothers. 

[EdsonFitbit]

Hi @Hm37, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback about having a pregnancy and post pregnancy mode. This feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here to keep this board organized.

[evrapkoch]

Even add it as part of the Female Health Tracking - or have a Pre/Postnatal health tracking. Then you can log feeding times too or something. Because more calories are recommended, sure, but for me before I quit, I was only breast feeding once a day, well then I don't need the 300-500 extra calories, but still a little extra - you know? 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @kialee, thanks for explaining why you would like to have this option. I've moved it into a similar suggestion which has been updated as "Under Consideration". You can learn more about here. Keep adding your suggestions!