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Abstract

For many women, being pregnant is a momentous life event. It's normal practice to monitor pregnancies with mobile apps or application. The stigmatized condition of pregnancy loss is a frequent problem that affects a person's well-being, connections, sense of self-worth and more. While many who experience pregnancy loss value it, it is unclear how much it is taken into consideration in pregnancy-related mobile apps and application designs or how much the requirements of users who experience it are taken into account. A feature study of 166 pregnancy-related apps was done. We discovered that these apps' primary functions center on reporting, tracking, notifications, and socialization, and that 72% of them fail to take loss into account, while 18% do so explicitly and 10% do so implicitly. This disregard for others' feelings is what we term "symbolic destruction by design." We contend that such destruction is influenced in part by increased motherhood ideals, significantly vilifies stillbirth, and upholds a detrimental and stigmatizing normative, linear portrayal of the maternity experience. The use of digital medical technology and the dissemination of information regarding risk and health is becoming more and more significant. A key technology in digital health and risk communication is mobile software. Pregnancy-related apps are a popular category. Pregnancy-related applications number in the hundreds, and many of them are quite well-liked. However, there hasn't been much sociological research done that tries to address the content of these apps and how they try to pique users' interest. We analyze these data to determine how pregnant and fetus embodied, including health-related conversations and practices, are expressed in these apps.