Start Smart Louisiana

Start Smart for Your Baby by Louisiana Healthcare Connections offers pregnant women a great new app. Start Smart for Your Baby helps you keep track of your pregnancy, set reminders and get actions personalized just for you. With weekly ultrasound videos and daily advice to help you get ready for baby.

This app is connected to a free 24/7 NurseLine, so that you can get help quickly from Start Smart for Your Baby staff.

There's a lot to learn when you're pregnant! Start Smart for Your Baby helps you stay on track every step of your pregnancy.

Use this app to track your weight gain, look up symptoms, find out about health issues in pregnancy, keep a list of things to talk about with your doctor, and set reminders so you won’t forget the important things to do when you’re pregnant.

Get weekly updates with ultrasound videos showing what babies look like at each stage of pregnancy. Daily updates give you important tips and inspirational quotes to stay positive and motivated.

Developed in conjunction with a board certified OB who has over 15 years' experience taking care of pregnant women and their babies. Other contributors include nurse midwives and other medical experts.

It’s easy to use - just enter your due date and birth date, and Start Smart for Your Baby sets up your pregnancy milestones. As you look up symptoms, enter your health history and answer questions about how you're feeling and things you're doing, Start Smart for Your Baby makes a healthy pregnancy action plan with actions just for you.

When you see something you want to talk to your doctor, midwife or nurse about, you can add it to your Hot List so you can easily remember it at your next appointment.



App Features:
- Week by week updates

- Due date calculator

- Weight gain calculator
- Pregnancy milestones

- Daily tips and affirmations
- Look up symptoms and issues

- Personalized healthy pregnancy actions

- Pregnancy programs

 from major health plans
- BabyBoost relaxation tool

Start Smart for Your Baby helps you keep track of all the things an expectant mother needs to do - keep hydrated, take prenatal vitamins, eat well, stay active and communicate with your doctor or midwife. And of course go to your prenatal appointments!

Start Smart for Your Baby can help you understand symptoms or issues that arise throughout your pregnancy, giving you real-time health advice and a customized action plan. Your actions can include talking to your health provider about an issue, calling a resource in your area, enrolling in a pregnancy management program offered by your health plan, or using one of Start Smart for Your Baby's in-app tools to check your weight or take time to relax.

We welcome your comments and suggestions - please email us at [email protected].

Alert for Android 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 Users:
These versions of the Android operating system have problems that might be cause your applications, including Due Date Plus, to crash unexpectedly. We encourage you to upgrade to Android 5.1.0 or 5.1.1 as soon it is available from your carrier.