Table 5 Additional features for a pregnancy app or other digital health solutions.

Export/share tool of app data and educational information

“Yes, but the user interface would have to be very sensitive. So, the app that I have doesn’t allow screenshots at all for privacy reasons. And that was frustrating because sometimes I was talking to my mom or my friend who had preeclampsia. And I was like, here are the numbers they got for me today on my protein test. And it would be really weird to have a button under my urine protein test that says share with a friend. And yet, that’s exactly the feature I wanted. So, you know, something that said, like export might have been a little more appropriate” [IP 3].

Connect users to research publication database

“I found the app that I used, like they had a bit of information, but it was super basic and general, which of course, that’s what you would expect in the app. But if they actually had links to solid research, and a database where you could go and look at that stuff. I think that would be really good” [IP7].

Shared user interface with healthcare professionals

“So particularly with the preeclampsia, I had to report the data back to my doctor. And so, it was a little kludgie, the medical apps, they just have like this text box for you to fill stuff in…And I would come in, and I would have my own graphs…And so, I would have my own graphs. And I would, like, bring them printed out so that we could talk about them. And it would have been so nice if there was some sort of like shared interface that we could go over the data together with and be like, here’s, you know, here’s what we’re seeing” [IP 3].

'Digital Wallet’ that includes digital copies of resources provided by hospitals, pregnancy antenatal cards, receipts, scripts etc.

“I would much prefer to have gotten everything digitally…Even scripts…I just never really understood why I had to keep it with me, why couldn’t they just email it to each other, it’s just like, on my file. So that kind of thing I felt was really weird. And, you know, obviously very old systems” [IP 13].

“I do think that having a digital wallet would have been literally life changing. That would be amazing, something secure, that you could store all of that documentation in” [IP 7].

Symptom tracker - could work like a contraction/ kick counter

“I just really would have loved to have something to monitor how much I was being sick… I don’t know even if you just like you know, push a button every time you were sick, and then it could calculate over a period of time how often it would be happening…Well, the app, I had actually had a kick count. So, like, you could press it every time you felt kicks and then it would track that…So yeah, like something similar to that for the vomiting would have probably really helped me because I’d go into the hospital, and they would be like”, “How many times have you been sick in the last 24 h?” I’d be like, “I don’t know. 1000? Like, I fill buckets? I don’t know” [IP 5].

Gestational diabetes monitoring

“Maybe something about the gestational diabetes, because I think that’s quite common. You know, a lot of women, you know, particularly older women sort of have that issue…I think would have been really useful” [IP 8].

A holistic app (from antenatal to postpartum)

“…There’s just so many different apps for so many different things, it would be good to have something that kind of combines everything into one, especially now that I’m looking towards, like downloading apps for sleep for the baby to track their sleep, there’s breastfeeding apps to track how much milk they’re drinking…So, like I’m just finding that my phone is getting filled with all these different apps. And you have to keep inputting your information into every app, you know, if it’s about me, it’s my age, my height, my weight, how far along I’m in my pregnancy and things like that. And if it’s about the baby, you have to input all that information. So, if there was some sort of app that could follow you from pre pregnancy right through to baby being born, I think that would be quite beneficial” [IP 12].