Life & fun · February 13, 2014
Baby steps towards real-time patient monitoring
If there's ever a time in a person's life when she wants to keep tabs on everything that's going on with her body, it's while she's pregnant. Every inch added to her waistline, pound gained, heartbeat she hears, and kick she feels is something to be monitored and celebrated.
Baby steps towards real-time patient monitoring launched on February 13, 2014 with 14 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
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Bellabeat is a wearable device designed for pregnant women to track physical changes and health metrics during pregnancy, including weight gain, heart rate, and fetal movement. It applies quantified self-tracking technology to pregnancy monitoring, allowing expectant mothers to continuously observe and record bodily changes between medical appointments. The product targets pregnant women who want detailed personal health data throughout their pregnancy.
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If there's ever a time in a person's life when she wants to keep tabs on everything that's going on with her body, it's while she's pregnant. Every inch added to her waistline, pound gained, heartbeat she hears, and kick she feels is something to be monitored and celebrated. But even as the quantified self movement has become mainstream for helping normal folks count steps
Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now If there’s ever a time in a person’s life when she wants to keep tabs on everything that’s going on with her body, it’s while she’s pregnant. Every inch added to her waistline, pound gained, heartbeat she hears, and kick she feels is something to be monitored and celebrated. But even as the quantified self movement has become mainstream for counting steps and tracking calories, many expectant mothers still largely rely on their doctor appointments to chart out the progress of the lives growing inside of them. Bellabeat , a startup in the current Winter 2014 class…from techcrunch.com
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