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14 pointssandromur12y ago5 comments

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Healthcare takes place between doctor visits. And, Bellabeat seems like a great way to give pregnant women the data and feedback that they want between visits. I suspect that expecting moms will eat this up. Very cool!

Inside the Nike+ FuelBand is a triaxial accelerometer based pedometer. I can get my head around that. But, how do you track a baby's kick count?

sandromurOP12y ago

Hi Trey, thanks for your question. Baby kickcounting is a simple way of tracking your baby's vitality and an important sign of its wellbeing. Doctors recommend to pregnant women to regularly check the fetal movement from the 28th week on and give them a simple spread sheet to write down the time it took for them to count 10 movement. We make this process way easier through the Kick Counter feature in our app. That means that women can relax while counting and just press the Kick Button each time they feal their baby move. The Kick Counting is set on timer and the app analyzes the data and creates a chart which accurately depicts the pattern of the baby's movement, giving an important insight of it's vitality.

trey_swann12y ago

Thank you!

jfasi12y ago

> Healthcare takes place between doctor visits

Just to let you know I like that quote a lot and I'll be using it myself.

WildUtah12y ago

How does a business like this stay off the FDA's radar? The recent Twenty-Three And Me affair would terrify me if I were going into this kind of business.

They were offering a scientific information service that doesn't even come into contact with living humans but the FDA has been ravaging them by claiming that they're a medical device company.

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trey_swann12y ago

Inside the Nike+ FuelBand is a triaxial accelerometer based pedometer. I can get my head around that. But, how do you track a baby's kick count?

sandromurOP12y ago

trey_swann12y ago

Thank you!

jfasi12y ago

> Healthcare takes place between doctor visits

Just to let you know I like that quote a lot and I'll be using it myself.

WildUtah12y ago

How does a business like this stay off the FDA's radar? The recent Twenty-Three And Me affair would terrify me if I were going into this kind of business.

They were offering a scientific information service that doesn't even come into contact with living humans but the FDA has been ravaging them by claiming that they're a medical device company.

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