Planning for a Baby: Best Free Online Pregnancy Websites

Susie Lee
The internet makes planning for your baby so much more exciting and interactive. Innovative websites help you track your growing baby's developments as well as changes you can expect from your own body. Some websites even offer health and nutrition advice from doctors and forums where you can chat with other expecting mothers. Here is a list of the best websites on the internet to use while you are pregnant.

Best Pregnancy Websites: BabyFit.com

www.babyfit.com

Babyfit.com is a sister site to Sparkpeople.com, a successful website that helps you personalize a healthy lifestyle. Babyfit.com helps you put together meal and fitness programs that are appropriate during the different phases of your pregnancy. You can set goals and track your weight. Connect with other mothers-to-be and join a team based on your due date, lifestyle or even age. They also have a resource center where you can find articles on everything to do with your health and a section where you can ask experts questions. There is a wealth of knowledge and advice and the website is totally customizable to you.

Best Pregnancy Websites: BabyCenter

www.babycenter.com

Baby Center is a great site from pre-conception all the way through your child's different ages. Sign up for their free newsletter. You will receive updates about your baby's growth and pregnancy tips based on your due date. For example, did you know that 14 weeks into your pregnancy your baby is about the size of a grape and that at 27 weeks along your baby's eyelids can open? The information is complete with illustrations showing what your baby looks like each week. Baby Center also has a community forum and articles about pregnancy as well as articles about parenting for after your baby is born. There is also a lot of information that will help you if you are trying to conceive.

Best Pregnancy Websites: The Nest Baby

www.thenestbaby.com

The Nest Baby website also has tools and information available before you conceive, during your pregnancy and after your baby is born. They have experts in different areas including obstetrics and midwifes, sex, pediatrics, fertility, nutrition and parenting in their question and answer section. There are interactive tools and calculators, checklists, blogs, boards, photos, reviews and more.

Best Pregnancy Websites: BabyNames.com

www.babynames.com

BabyNames.com may only have one purpose, but picking your child's name is a pretty important part having a baby. This website is fun and helpful. Enter names you are considering to see what they mean or search through their database. You can find names by gender, syllables, origin, popularity and by first letter.

Published by Susie Lee

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  • SKetcham1/3/2008

    Personally, my favorite is justmommies.com. I found it so helpful during my last pregnancy, and still hang around there now that my daughter is 3 months old.

  • E Harmon1/3/2008

    I LOVE babyfit! I used it all through my pregnancy and still visit the forums there now even though my son is 17 months old. :)

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