Is there a "pregnancy" setting on the Garmin connect app? Just wondering since it wants to track my menstrual cycle now...
Is there a "pregnancy" setting on the Garmin connect app? Just wondering since it wants to track my menstrual cycle now...
It would be awesome to have more options for pregnant users in general. I'm shocked there isn't any kind of pregnancy app available for download. Features like Insights are de-motivating for a pregnant…
We should all submit a request to Garmin.. seems ridiculous that this isn't a feature! Why add menstrual cycle and not include pregnancy?
I’ve submitted a suggestion as I’m also pregnant and find it frustrating that my training is described as “unproductive” when in fact I’m finding it much harder work to go running at all. Thanks guys for…
Definitely if you have the ability to log menstrual cycles, you need pregnancy. I started logging menstrual cycles and became pregnant. I'm now 39 weeks. My resting heartrate is high and my "stress" measurements are showing as very high. lol My exercise intensity levels decreased, weight increased. So many factors.
Also, post partum the cycles might not return right away if breastfeeding. Mine didn't return for 10 months with my first child.
Anyway, hopefully they are working on including this in a future version. There are a lot of components that go with adding pregnancy.
Definitely if you have the ability to log menstrual cycles, you need pregnancy.
As stated in the Support FAQ, during the pregnancy (and eventually during the brestfeeding), you should simply pause the mensual cycles.
I agree - It's frustrating that it keeps telling me I should be ovulating and all but it doesn't give me an option to be pregnant! Garmin should sync somehow with another popular pregnancy app. They don't need to get in the business of pregnancy but it shouldn't be that hard to pull in data. If you're going to track menstrual data and make women aware of their fertility and how training load impacts that and all of that...they need to find a way to sync up with pregnant athletes and not just keep tagging me as "unproductive" when I have a tough week!
It's frustrating that it keeps telling me I should be ovulating
Is there any reason why you don't simply pause the mensual cycles in user settings, while being pregnant, as stated in the FAQ? I still do not understand what is exactly the problem with that solution.
I totally agree! For the price these Gamrin devices are they should have thought that fit women also do get pregnant. I think it's ridiculous in this day and age that I can have apps to track everything, which sometimes are completely useless, but the important things are forgotten. I hope they read this thread and incorporate something better!
but the important things are forgotte
Nothing is forgotten. You can pause or disable the mensual cycle whenever you wish, and of course during pregnancy as well. Just read the answers in the thread.
What exactly the problem is, with that solution, is what a few of us have mentioned above. If Garmin is smart enough to link your cycle status to your performance, it should also recognize the impact that pregnancy has on training. So being told constantly that you're losing fitness because of your data, which is partially inaccurate during pregnany since HR becomes an unreliable indicator, is frustrating. Yes, I can pause it, but, why they even entered that space without FULLY entering it and recognizing that there is one, major change in a cycle...it just seems like they should have rolled out the full picture instead. And I think it would be great of them to allow you to put that as a status so Garmin didn't assume you were just being lazy based off your fitness and keep telling you you're detraining :) For women who are pregnant and postpartum and still racing and training, and also working off of data, it would be great to have this information over time.
If Garmin is smart enough to link your cycle status to your performance, it should also recognize the impact that pregnancy has on training.
Yes, perhaps, but then it should also recognize when you are ill, have an injury, drank too much beer, are too busy in the job, on a business travel, or are just on family holidays, and cannot train as usually, and hundreds of other conditions.
In fact I think you should stop being obsessed with trying to be permanently and perfectly controlled by the technology. The technology is a good helper, but using your own senses is much better. If you start relying on the technology too much, you will stop eating when you are hungry, drinking when thirsty, sleeping when tired, and you will only wait to get a command from the machine.
You’ve missed the point completely, but thanks for your commentary. I’m not stupid enough to stop eating when I’m hungry. I don’t let technology control my life but thanks for that assumption. If Garmin is going to talk menstrual cycle they should talk pregnancy- period, that’s the point. I don’t know why you’ve continued to pursue everyone on this feed and tell us all that we need to “just pause it”- we get it, but we’re all clearly looking for a technology advance that we all feel as women who are or have been pregnant would be nice to have since it’s already tracking cycles. Perhaps this isn’t the right feed for you to push your agenda, since you’ve now given everyone the same solution that obviously is sufficient, but not ideal, or the feed wouldn’t have been started in the first place.
you’ve now given everyone the same solution that obviously is sufficient, but not ideal
I am sorry, but I still do not understand what is not ideal with pausing the menstrual feature during pregnancy. The watch has no capability to recognize automatically that you are pregnant, so you have to set it up manually. And the pausing was designed exactly for this very purpose - stopping or pausing the menstrual monitoring when you are pregnant, or in a menopasue, or have a medical condition. So please explain how would you like to do it better, than pausing the menstrual monitoring. If you just wish that there was a big button "pregnancy" doing the same thing as pausing the monitoring, it is certainly no problem, and I can even do it for you myself with the help of local overrides.