Safe Pregnancy and Birth App Reviews

This app is comprehensive, easy to navigate, and full of accessible information. No physician needed for translation of this lifesaving information. Anyone traveling overseas to work with health workers or midwives should have this app!

This app is easy to use and the info is practical. A must for ppl in public and womens health fields, and a useful tool for people traveling abroad and people who just want simple, clear, and accessible information on pregnancy and womens health.

I love this incredible app! It was developed by Hesperian Health Guides, the folks that develop and publish “Where There Is No Doctor”. Their focus is helping poor people around the world take control of their own health. Their Safe Pregnancy app, like all their material, uses simple language without “medicalese”, is beautifully illustrated and medically accurate. The app concisely offers excellent advice on preventative care, pre-natal monitoring and support, as well as detailed, potentially lifesaving information on how to respond to danger signs during pregnancy and birth. Unlike most medical texts, which make the assumption that you already know the specifics (often rendering their information useless), this app offers step-by-step instructions on how to carry out each procedure with medications and technology available in developing countries. Their instructions could easily be followed by village healthworkers and midwives. I highly recommend this app to anyone, such as students, NGO workers, Peace Corp volunteers, and missionaries, who work in areas where women do not have ready access to medical care. You literally could save a life.

Reliable, complete & easy to understand information on pregnancy & birth. I would recommend this app to all health workers, non profits working with pregnant immigrant & refugee women and people traveling abroad.

Fabulous app! Really easy to use and informative. Highest quality medical and health advice. I highly recommend to everyone.

Easy to follow and very helpful! A very well made ap.

One of the best healthcare apps available! Easy to use and loaded with helpful information. Ive been telling all my friends. Thanks to Hesperian for developing this outstanding app!!!

The title says it all! Easy to use.

Good useful info for anyone especially those involved in womens health.

This app provides clear, accessible advice for women (especially in developing countries) on maternal health and avoiding complications during pregnancy. The suggestions are practical and helpful even in the absence of physicians or where resources are scarce. Well done, Hesperian!

Simple, user-friendly layout... Provides practical, useful information and fantastic tips for maintaining a healthy pregnancy ... complete with clear, comprehensive diagrams! Perfect guide to have on hand in an emergency. Wonderful work, Hesperian!

Terrific app. Navigation is intuitive and information is clear and concise. A valuable resource.

This app is very easy to use and navigating through it is a breeze. It has tons of great information.

Very concise and organized for ease of navigation through the app to the desired information.

This app gives clear information about pregnancy and birth and provides easy-to-follow advice for a wide variety of situations. Great!

Fantastic and helpful! Hesperian should make more of these. I work in rural communities in Guatemala and feel much more prepared with this simple guide!

Fantastic app. Easy to read and informative.

This is a scary app that is dangerously giving medical advice when it should not be. Im SHOCKED that this app was even published. Doesnt apple even read the content of these app submissions???? If the assumption is that you are stuck in the North Pole with a pregnant woman with absolutely no access to medical care - fine, I guess this will do. But the danger here is that people who have absolutely no medical knowledge are being "taught" how to be a doctor. Advice such as "give magnesium sulfate if you know how" is utterly ridiculous and extremely dangerous. This is just one of many idiotic suggestions this app makes. This drug can only being given in a medically supervised setting with an IV and monitors for breathing, blood pressure, heart rate not to mention a fetal monitor. You can kill someone by giving this drug! Ive read those reviews that say this is perfect for healthcare workers in remote areas, blah, blah... If you are in such as remote area where there is absolutely no health care then I highly highly doubt you will even have access to magnesium sulfate so where is the LOGIC to even advising this????

Shouldnt you mention in stop the bleeding section that you can cut a 1 X 1 inch square of placenta and have the mom bite down on it to release oxytocin and clamp down the uterus? And cant vinegar clean utensils too? What if there is no cytotec or pit on hand?

Wow these are the most terrifying pics about pregnancy and birth I have ever seen!!! Should be rated