Unveiled by Oura: Innovative additions tailored for expectant mothers and women in perimenopause
In exciting news for women's health, Oura has announced the launch of two new features: Pregnancy Insights and Perimenopause Check-In. These innovative offerings aim to empower women by providing personalized, continuous tracking and insights during these significant life stages.
The Pregnancy Insights feature offers a comprehensive approach to pregnancy tracking. It monitors key physiological changes such as temperature trends, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and respiratory rate. By providing weekly science-driven insights, users can better understand typical pregnancy patterns and symptoms like Braxton Hicks contractions, nausea, and pelvic pain.
The feature includes gestational age tracking, personalized calibration for new users, and visual trend analysis with reference ranges based on data from over 10,000 pregnancies. This allows mothers-to-be to distinguish typical fluctuations from those needing medical attention. Users can also tag pregnancy-specific symptoms and access pregnancy-aware cycle insights, including reproductive health history, aiding care before, during, and after pregnancy.
The Perimenopause Check-In feature, on the other hand, uses a 12-question clinically validated Menopause Rating Scale survey combined with wearable biometric data to assess symptom severity and impacts on quality of life. It generates personalized reports designed for sharing with healthcare providers and provides direct access to specialty care through clinical partnerships.
Both features share key benefits, including personalization, actionable insights, symptom tagging & reports, clinical integration, and education and empowerment. They aim to bridge wearable technology with clinical care, supporting holistic management throughout pregnancy and perimenopause transitions.
The Oura Ring 4, which is more accurate, durable, and has a longer-lasting battery, will contextualize Readiness, Sleep, Rest Mode, and Recovery Mode insights for pregnancy. The Pregnancy Insights feature will launch on Aug 12, 2025, and Perimenopause Check-In in the U.S. on Aug 13.
The Perimenopause Check-In feature gives women direct access to healthcare resources within the Oura app. A new trend view in Pregnancy Insights displays changes in key metrics such as temperature trends, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and respiratory rate during pregnancy. The Keeping Track system in Pregnancy Insights allows members to tag symptoms, experiences, and emotions.
In Perimenopause Check-In, a PDF report summarizing symptoms, biometric trends, and cycle data can be easily shared with healthcare providers. Users start by answering a survey in Perimenopause Check-In. The Perimenopause Check-In feature will be available in the U.S. starting August 13, 2025, with other regions to follow soon.
Oura's new features collectively enhance women’s health monitoring, offering a comprehensive approach to supporting women during these transformative periods in their lives.
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