Diabetes in Pregnancy app review: tracking and managing with ease

Introduction

Have you been diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and you're looking for a user-friendly way to manage it and stay on top of it? The Diabetes in Pregnancy app for your iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone may be just the solution you're seeking. This app makes it possible for you to keep track of your blood sugar both during and after your pregnancy. And it’s more than just nutrition; you can also use this app to track and log exercise you perform, insulin, and oral medications. The idea is that this app acts as a complete logbook for you.

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Track All the Factors

Instead of just giving users a way to keep track of their blood sugar levels the Diabetes in Pregnancy app strives to be a complete logbook by giving you a way to track your nutrition intake, any exercise you perform, insulin, and any oral medications you have taken. By giving users a way to log all this information it is able to paint a more complete picture of their health and therefore allow them to control their diabetes that much easier. Every possible factor that may affect your blood sugar during your pregnancy and after can be tracked through the app.

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This app has recently been updated with a number of bug fixes. Diabetes in Pregnancy requires iOS 8.0 or later to use and currently has four out of five stars from users. It seems that customers love the offering and the tools it features however there are some major issues with stability and the app crashes pretty often.

What Can You Expect

There are a nice collection of features built into the Diabetes in Pregnancy app and all have been designed to be user-friendly. You can log everything you eat and the app even has nutritional information for more than 100,000 foods, 300 casual dining and fast food restaurants, and 500 food brands. If your item isn't in the database you can enter it in manually. After you start going through the same items on a regular basis you may want to create a favorites list to make things quicker and easier. There is even the ability to set up quick-entry items. You can enter in any oral medications you have taken, make record of your insulin type, and track your insulin and glucose.

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Exercise can easily be added with the calorie per minute calculations that are made based on the exercise, how long you performed the exercise for, and your weight.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• The app strives to be a complete tracking solution for those with gestational diabetes
• Log and track your blood sugar levels, what you ate, the exercises you have done, any medications you have taken, insulin, and much more
• The app offers a number quick entry shortcuts

Cons

• There seems to be some stability issues and the app crashes often

Final Thoughts

The Diabetes in Pregnancy app for your iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone certainly serves an important purpose; it would just be great to see a few minor refinements made.