Pregnancy is a significant life event for many. Using mobile apps to manage pregnancies is common. Pregnancy loss is a common complication associated with stigma that impacts one’s wellbeing, relationships, sense of self, and more. While pregnancy loss is important to many experiencing it, it is unclear to what extent pregnancy-related mobile apps account for it and consider associated users’ needs in their designs. We conducted a feature analysis of 166 pregnancy-related apps. We found that their main features focus on information, tracking, reminders, and social contact, and that 72% of these apps do not account for loss, 18% explicitly account for it, and 10% passively do so. We theorize this lack of consideration as symbolic annihilation through design. We argue that such annihilation is partly shaped by intensified mothering ideologies, further stigmatizes pregnancy loss, and perpetuates a normative, linear portrait of the pregnancy experience which is harmful and marginalizing.

对于许多人来说，怀孕是重要的生活事件。使用移动应用程序管理妊娠很常见。怀孕流失是一种与耻辱相关的常见并发症，会影响一个人的健康，人际关系，自我意识等。尽管妊娠丢失对许多经历者很重要，但目前尚不清楚与妊娠相关的移动应用在多大程度上占了妊娠损失，并在设计中考虑了相关用户的需求。我们对166个与怀孕相关的应用进行了功能分析。我们发现，它们的主要功能集中在信息，跟踪，提醒和社交联系上，这些应用中有72％不会造成损失，有18％明确地造成了损失，而10％则是被动地造成了损失。我们通过设计将这种缺乏考虑作为象征性ni灭的理论。我们认为，这种an灭在某种程度上是由强化的母亲意识形态所塑造的，进一步污名化了怀孕损失，并使对怀孕经历的规范，线性描述永久存在，这是有害的和边缘化的。