Your pregnancy, week by week, by your side.
Every number I show you comes from official institutions and published studies; I don’t make up what I don’t know. I don’t show ads and I don’t sell your data. Your meals, your baby’s development and what you share with your partner, all in one place.
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Trust
Every number I show you has a source
Your baby’s length, your nutrient targets, your weight range… I take every number on the screen from the institutions or published studies below. If I can’t find a source for a number, I don’t show it; that box just says “—”. I don’t invent nutrient values in chat either: I can estimate what’s on your plate and how many grams, but the value always comes from the table.
- TÜBER
- SB
- TARD
- EFSA
- FAO
- NHS
- IOM
- WHO
- ACOG
- TEMD
- NICE
- USDA
- Ciqual
- CoFID
- TGK
- CDC
- NLM
- NCT
- TDK
- AAD
The same list is in the app: Profile → Sources.
All sources (71) and which numbers they feed
National institutions and guidelines
- Turkish Ministry of Health — Türkiye Beslenme Rehberi (Turkish dietary guidelines)Energy and nutrient targets, the caffeine limit, converting folic acid to folate (DFE), nutrition advice in pregnancy
- Turkish Ministry of Health — Gebe Bilgilendirme Sınıfı Eğitim Kitabı (antenatal class handbook)What to pack in the hospital bag and the week it should be ready; on the “Your week” card, daily life, non-drug tips for common complaints and the early signs of labour; your baby’s development stages
- Turkish Ministry of Health — antenatal care, Mother-Friendly and Baby-Friendly Hospital programmesThe birth plan’s questions on how and where to give birth, a birth companion and skin-to-skin contact, and leaving routine care (vitamin K) out of the plan; the weeks of the four antenatal visits in Türkiye (also in the tip of the day), the starting weeks for iron and vitamin D supplements and the Td vaccine (without doses), the week your baby’s heartbeat can be heard; palpitations being among the topics to explain to pregnant women
- Turkish Ministry of Health — Doğum Sonu Bakım Yönetim Rehberi (postnatal care guideline)After-birth “Your week”: the timing and content of the six postnatal visits, how recovery goes after birth (bleeding, the womb shrinking, stitch care, mood) and the danger signs for the mother
- Turkish Ministry of Health — Bebek, Çocuk, Ergen İzlem Protokolleri (child health monitoring protocols)The after-birth baby card: the timing of baby check-ups, screenings, signs that breastfeeding is going well, safe sleep and the danger signs for your baby; when to be reminded about your baby’s vitamin D and iron (without doses); the small-parts warning for your baby’s toys
- Turkish Ministry of Health — Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, “Süt Sağma” (expressing milk) leafletHow long expressed milk keeps at room temperature, in the fridge and in the freezer; thawing and warming
- UNICEF UK — Baby Friendly InitiativeThe “Is breastfeeding going well?” checklist: signs of feeding and nappies in the first weeks, and when to talk to your midwife or doctor
- Turkish Society of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation (TARD), 2015Discussing anaesthesia options for a caesarean
- UK National Health Service (NHS)Your baby’s length, size comparisons, foods to avoid in pregnancy, baby movements, signs of labour, the breathing exercise, exercise and the pelvic floor in pregnancy, sleeping position, tiredness, sleep and dreams in pregnancy, mental health, antenatal classes, the birth plan and what an episiotomy is, common pregnancy complaints, when to get help for heart palpitations and symptoms that need a doctor, symptoms with high blood sugar that need urgent help; thawing expressed milk and bottle rules; breastfeeding difficulties (sore nipples, fullness, blocked ducts, mastitis, milk-supply worries); nausea in pregnancy, tips for new parents, tiredness after birth, coping with a crying baby, relationships and single parenting; things to do with your baby (play, tummy time, songs and books)
- South West Maternal Medicine Network (NHS), 2024That there’s no accepted upper limit for heart rate in pregnancy
- U.S. National Academy of Medicine (IOM/NAM), 2009The recommended weight gain range in pregnancy
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)Definitions of birth timing (early/late term), the weeks of the gestational diabetes test
- Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey (TEMD) — Diabetes Mellitus ve Komplikasyonlarının Tanı, Tedavi ve İzlem Kılavuzu 2026The symptoms of low blood sugar and its severe form
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) — Diabetes in pregnancy (NG3)How urgently to seek help in pregnancy when blood sugar falls or rises
- U.S. Department of Agriculture food database (USDA FoodData Central)Food composition database
- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety food database (Anses Ciqual)Food composition database (non-fortified items) — “Anses. 2025. Table de composition nutritionnelle des aliments Ciqual”
- UK food composition database (McCance and Widdowson’s CoFID)Food composition database (halloumi, kaymak, Turkish delight and some home-cooked dishes) — Public Health England, CoFID 2021, © Crown copyright
- Swedish Food Agency food database (Livsmedelsverket)The recipe ratio for lahmacun: I took only the ingredient weights and calculated the nutrient values with that ratio from my own ingredient table
- Turkish Food Codex — Annex 1The list of allergens that must be declared
- Turkish Food Codex — Communiqué on Food SupplementsSupplement names: vitamins, minerals and their forms
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)The supplement dose ceiling above which I start asking (folic acid); things to do with your baby in the first year
- U.S. National Library of Medicine — MedlinePlusExtra information on your baby’s weekly development
- U.S. National Library of Medicine — Cesarean Section: A Brief History exhibitionWhere the word “caesarean” comes from (“A little question” card)
- Turkish Language Association — Güncel Türkçe Sözlük (current Turkish dictionary)The meaning and origin of Turkish words about pregnancy and birth (“A little question” card)
- Smithsonian’s National Zoo (U.S.) — Asian elephantHow long elephants are pregnant (“A little question” card)
- Australian Museum — red kangaroo and sea dragonHow kangaroos and sea dragons carry their young (“A little question” card)
- Australian Antarctic Program — emperor penguinMale emperor penguins carrying the egg (“A little question” card)
International institutions
- European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)The daily water target
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) — Minimum Dietary Diversity for WomenWhich foods count as a food group in meal balance
- Apple — HealthKit and Apple Watch support documentsThat Apple Health stores HRV as SDNN; that Apple Watch measures wrist temperature during sleep and the Health app shows it as a change from baseline
- Android Developers — Health Connect data typesThat Health Connect stores HRV as RMSSD and skin temperature as a change from baseline
- World Health Organization (WHO)Body mass index categories, the weeks of antenatal check-ups; tummy time, time strapped in and screen advice for babies
- UNICEF — Parenting guideThat there’s no such thing as a perfect parent
Published studies
- Çataloluk and Sayıner, 2022The birthing ball option in the birth plan
- Shcherbina et al., 2017The margin of error of wrist devices when measuring activity energy
- Loerup et al., 2019That a rise in resting heart rate is common in pregnancy, and that there’s no accepted normal range by week of pregnancy
- Shaffer and Ginsberg, 2017What heart rate variability is; that SDNN and RMSSD are different calculations
- Hadlock et al., 1991Your baby’s weekly weight
- Open-access scientific articles from Türkiye (recipe ratios)The recipe ratios for tarhana soup, tahini halva and poğaça: I took only the ratio and the measured moisture, and calculated the nutrient values from my own ingredient table — Göncü 2024 (Food Sci. Nutr., doi:10.1002/fsn3.4191); Özbek, Öncel and Özdemir 2024 (Toros Univ. JFNG, doi:10.58625/jfng-2471); Serin and Sayar 2017 (Food Sci. Technol., doi:10.1590/1678-457X.05516); CC BY 4.0
- NCT (UK parenting charity) — Censuswide survey, 2025How common it is to feel overwhelmed and lonely after birth; in pregnancy, worries about being a good parent, looking after the baby and your own mental health (UK survey)
- ZERO TO THREE (U.S.) — Tuning In national parent survey, 2016How common it is for parents to feel judged (a survey in the United States)
- Tronick and Beeghly, 2011That most small mismatches in mother–baby interaction repair themselves
- Rizzo, Schiffrin and Liss, 2013The link between believing you’re an “irreplaceable parent” and life satisfaction
- Aurélie Athan (Columbia University) — the concept of matrescenceSeeing the transition to motherhood (matrescence) as a stage of development
- Felder et al., 2016The link between self-compassion and anxiety and depressive symptoms in pregnancy and after birth
- Richter et al., 2019How much mothers’ sleep drops in the first months after birth
- Wolke, Bilgin and Samara, 2017How long babies fuss and cry on average in the first weeks
- Wagner et al., 2013How common worries are in the first days of breastfeeding
- Geddes et al., 2021That one breast often produces more milk than the other, and that the number of feeds varies widely from baby to baby
- Kent et al., 2006That the left and right breasts rarely produce the same amount of milk
- Pilkington et al., 2015The link between partner support and communication and the mother’s mental health
- Dennis and Dowswell, 2013 (Cochrane review)That telephone support from trained peers after birth is a promising form of support
- Dennis, Falah-Hassani and Shiri, 2017How common anxiety symptoms are in pregnancy
- Kent-Marvick et al., 2022How common loneliness is in pregnancy and after birth
- Downe et al., 2018What matters to women during childbirth
- Finlayson et al., 2020Joy alongside tiredness and anxiety after birth
- Soma-Pillay et al., 2016How blood volume, the heart, the kidneys and breathing change in pregnancy (“A little question” card)
- Segal et al., 2013That pregnancy can permanently change the arch of the foot (“A little question” card)
- Bianchi et al., 1996That cells from the baby can stay in the mother’s blood for years (“A little question” card)
- DeCasper and Fifer, 1980That newborns prefer their mother’s voice (“A little question” card)
- Mennella et al., 2001How flavours in pregnancy are reflected in the baby’s later reactions (“A little question” card)
- Ustun et al., 2022The facial expressions babies in the womb make in response to flavours (“A little question” card)
- Varendi et al., 1998That the smell of amniotic fluid calms newborns (“A little question” card)
- Perry, DiPietro and Costigan, 1999That the shape of the bump doesn’t show the baby’s sex (“A little question” card)
- Costigan et al., 2006The link between heartburn in pregnancy and the newborn’s hair (“A little question” card)
- McKenna et al., 2006That heart rate in the first trimester doesn’t differ by sex (“A little question” card)
- Arliss et al., 2005That there’s no link between the phases of the moon and the number of births (“A little question” card)
- Jukic et al., 2013The natural variation in the length of healthy pregnancies (“A little question” card)
- Wertheim, 2011 — The Fingerprint Sourcebook (U.S. Department of Justice)That fingerprints form in the womb and differ between twins (“A little question” card)
- Lis, 2023 — the history of the home pregnancy testThe history of the pregnancy test: ancient Egypt, the first home test and hCG (“A little question” card)
- Donald, MacVicar and Brown, 1958 (The Lancet)The beginnings of ultrasound in pregnancy (“A little question” card)
No ads, not sold, no trackers
I don’t show ads, I don’t sell your data, and I don’t use any tool that tracks you.
No ads on the free plan either
There are no ad tools in the app at all; I don’t show ads on the free plan or on Premium.
No trackers on this site either
On this site too, I use no cookies, analytics or third-party resources.
Download my data
You can download a copy of everything I keep for you on my server, in a single file.
Delete my account
You can delete your account and your data from inside the app, without having to write to anyone.
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Nutrition
Nutrition that fits you
How much energy you need each day depends on how active you are; I work out your target from your height, weight, age, activity and week of pregnancy. Targets for nutrients like folate, iron and calcium come from the Turkish Dietary Guidelines. I pick meal ideas to suit your preferences and keep your allergies in mind. I never say “too much” or “too little”; I show you where you are.
Just tell me what you ate
You can type what you ate, say it, or snap your plate; I’ll try to recognise it, and you can fix anything I get wrong. I don’t guess nutrient values, I take them from sourced tables.
The day at a glance
I show the day’s energy and macros; one tap opens all of the day’s nutrients.
Your water
One tap for each glass you drink is all it takes; I keep count of the day’s water.
Your nutrition tools
“Can I eat this?”, foods to avoid and your supplements sit together on one shelf.
Together
Together with your partner
You can invite your partner to the app; your week, appointments, notes to the baby and your name list show up on their phone too. You decide what they see, and your weight, meals and mood stay with you.
Share with your partner Premium
You decide what your partner sees: your week, appointments, kick counter, notes to the baby, the name list and the hospital bag. You can switch each one on separately and off again whenever you like. Inviting your partner comes with Premium; one plan covers you both, so they don’t pay anything.
Name finder
You can go through names one by one and like them, skip them or add them to your favourites, then take a second, more selective look at the ones you liked. Play together with your partner and the names you both like end up on a shared list; the shared list comes with Premium.
What else is in the app?
Only what’s in the app today, not what I’m promising for later.
Baby
Your baby, week by week
Each week I tell you how long your baby is, how much they weigh and how they’re developing. Length and size comparisons come from the NHS, weight from the Hadlock table.
Your baby, right here
You can see how your baby looks this week; your baby grows as the weeks go by.
Countdown
I show how many days are left until the birth and which trimester you’re in.
Notes to your baby
You can write notes to your baby; I keep every one of them for you.
Kick and contraction counter
In the last weeks you can count kicks and contractions with a single tap.
Hospital bag and birth plan
You can pack your hospital bag list by list and put your birth plan together step by step.
Health
Weight, sleep and activity
I show your weight alongside the recommended gain range (IOM 2009; a range, not a target). With your permission I read your steps, sleep and weight from Apple Health or Health Connect, and your smartwatch’s data too if it writes there.
Your week
Each week I explain what may be happening in your body.
How are you feeling?
You can tell me how you feel today with a single tap.
Your health tools
Breathing exercises, pelvic floor practice, questions for your doctor… You can open them all from one shelf.
Can I?
Flying, hair dye, sauna… you can ask about whatever’s on your mind.
Symptom log
You can note how you feel, when and how often, so it’s easy to show your doctor at your next appointment. If you write down a warning sign, I don’t comment on it; I point you straight to your doctor or midwife.
Works with your smartwatch
There’s no separate watch app: if your watch writes its data to Apple Health or Health Connect (Apple Watch, Wear OS watches that sync to Health Connect), I read your sleep, steps, workouts, resting heart rate and breathing rate from there — for as long as you allow it. I only read; I never write anything back.
Appointments
You can keep your appointments and the questions for your doctor in one place.
Reminders
I can remind you about water, meals, a new week and appointments; you pick the quiet hours.
Assistant
Porty, your guide
I explain your meals and records to you and answer your questions about nutrition. I don’t recommend medicines, supplements or doses and I don’t diagnose — that’s your doctor’s job. When I tell you a nutrient value, the number comes from a table, not from me.
I’m right here
If something’s on your mind, tap the floating Porty button and ask me.
Community
Community
You can ask questions and share your experience with people on the same journey. Others see your nickname, not your name, and the community is kept safe by its rules and a report button.
After the birth
After the birth, too
If your pregnancy has ended, just enter the date; I don’t ask what happened. I adjust what I show you, and I don’t delete any of your records.
Feeding log
You can log breastfeeds, bottles and expressed milk. I don’t show totals, averages or targets; I only keep track of when and on which side you fed.
How to store expressed milk
You can store your expressed milk in a clean container or a milk storage bag; I explain room temperature, fridge and freezer separately.
Your week after the birth
Every postpartum period is different: what I describe is what may happen, not what should.
What PortyCare is not
PortyCare doesn’t replace your doctor or midwife: it informs, it doesn’t diagnose or recommend treatment. If you don’t feel well, or something doesn’t feel right, contact your doctor.
- I’m not your doctor or midwife. I inform; I don’t diagnose or recommend treatment.
- I don’t recommend medicines, supplements or doses. That’s your doctor’s job.
- I don’t make up numbers. If I can’t find a source for a number, I don’t show it; that box just says “—”.
- I don’t judge you. I don’t call your meals “too much” or “too little”; I show you your levels.
- I’m not an emergency service. In an emergency, don’t rely on the app — call 112.
Questions
Where do your numbers come from?
From national and international institutions or published studies. The full list is in the Sources section of this page; the same list is in the app: Profile → Sources.
Are there ads in the app?
No, not on the free plan either. I don’t show ads, I don’t sell your data, and I don’t use any tool that tracks you.
What happens if I write down a warning sign?
I don’t comment on it: I point you straight to your doctor or midwife. In an emergency, don’t rely on the app — call 112.
Does it work with my smartwatch?
If your watch writes its data to Apple Health or Health Connect, I read it from there for as long as you allow it. There’s no separate watch app, and I never write anything back.
What does my partner see?
Only what you switch on: your week, appointments, kick counter, notes to the baby, the name list and the hospital bag. You can switch each one on separately and off again whenever you like. Inviting your partner comes with Premium; one plan covers you both, so they don’t pay anything.
Can I download my data and delete my account?
Yes. You can download a copy of everything I keep for you on my server in a single file, and delete your account and your data from inside the app, without having to write to anyone.
When can I download it?
The app isn’t in the stores yet; once it is, you’ll be able to tap the App Store and Google Play badges on this page to download it.
I’m here whenever you’re ready.
Your pregnancy, week by week, by your side.