Problem Statement

It is essential to develop a checkup solution for pregnant women to monitor the baby's heartbeat at home.

• Heart defects are among the most common birth defects and the leading cause of birth defect-related mortality. Annually, about 1% of infants are born with some form of congenital heart disease (CHD) and this rate has been epidemically increased.


• Prenatal care has been detrimentally affected due to COVID-19 pandemic. Many pregnant women chose to skip check-ups until a safer time. Therefore, fetal health declines on a large scale which also leads to mothers’ mental issues like devastation and anxiety.







• 20% of pregnancies worldwide, or 30 million women yearly get affected by high-risk conditions such as such as hypertension, diabetes. These increase the chance of preterm and stillbirth. It also requires to have endless visits to the doctors, repeated tests and scans.

Currently there is no reliable way to assess a baby's heart rate at home

The challenge for home-based devices is to minimize unnecessary clinical consultation while not missing the opportunity to intervene if the unborn baby is at risk. The current solution is a ultrasound Doppler fetal heart rate device, which is infamous for its difficulty in finding the fetal heart beats.