Oh, baby! Check out the Ovia Pregnancy app

Get support along the way from Ovia health coaches

When you’re expecting, you want to do everything you can to have a healthy pregnancy. You eat right, avoid things that could be harmful to yourself and your baby, and follow your doctor’s recommendations for exercise and rest.

You can add downloading the Ovia Pregnancy app from Ovia Health to that list.

MESSA members have free access to the Ovia Pregnancy app, which helps support expecting parents from conception to delivery day. In the app, you can get health tips and receive support directly from Ovia health coaches. Ovia’s certified nurses can even help identify risk factors early on, which can head off problems later in your pregnancy. And the extra support works.

Ovia Health partnered with Change Healthcare and Health Data Analytics Institute on a matched case-control analysis of more than 10,000 individuals to compare Ovia app users to non-users. The results found:

• Ovia users had 54% lower preterm birth rates overall.
• Those who interacted with Ovia’s health coaches saw a 68% reduction in preterm births compared to those who didn’t.

The Ovia Pregnancy app also has a lot of fun features, like tracking your baby’s growth and development from week to week, and even a tool that can help you choose a baby name.

Additionally, it features a library of articles that cover everything from the details of your MESSA pregnancy benefits to how to prepare for successful breastfeeding to the importance of vaccinations.

To learn more, visit messa.org/Ovia.