Shieldmaiden: A maternity and baby care assistance smartphone application with pregnancy detection, healthcare support, baby product purchasing features

A nation’s development and well-being depend on a healthy mother and newborn child. There were no ICT-based smartphone applications with pregnancy detection, health status prediction for the mother and newborn, or online mom and baby goods buying features in previous maternity and infant care-related works. Additionally, they did not offer any support systems for the detection of postpartum depression in women, search for health professionals, ambulances, infant day care centers, caregivers, and clinic search, as well as pregnancy calendars and recommendations, help for maternity-related queries, and emergency messaging features. To resolve these problems, this paper offers a smartphone application for maternity and baby care assistance with pregnancy detection, health status detection, mom and baby item purchase, search for health professionals and clinics, post-partum depression detection, exercise and diet advice, baby day care center search, query assistance, and emergency chat features. According to the app’s merit and impeccability study results, over 62% of reviewers provided spectacular feedback on the app’s suitability.