Check your blood pressure two or three times a day, answer seven quick questions, and know right away what to do. Send your log to your own care team.
Emergency? Seizure, chest pain, trouble breathing at rest, or fainting: call 911 now. Do not use this tool first.
What this tool does
Reminds you every day, at times you choose, through your phone's calendar.
Asks you to enter your blood pressure and answer seven yes-or-no questions. A check is not done until every answer is in.
Tells you right away what to do: all clear, call today, call now, go to labor and delivery, or call 911.
Keeps your log on this device only. Nothing is sent to us.
Makes a summary you send to your own doctor or midwife.
Disclaimer: please read
This tool is not medical advice. It is for education only. It does not diagnose, treat, or rule out any condition.
It does not replace your doctor or midwife. Always follow the instructions your own care team gives you. If their advice is different from this tool, follow their advice.
No one is watching your readings. Nothing you enter is sent to ObGyn Intelligence or anyone else. No one will see your answers, call you, or follow up with you.
The tool can be wrong, and so can your cuff. If you feel something is wrong, trust that feeling. Call your doctor or midwife, or go to labor and delivery, even if this tool says "All clear."
Using this tool does not make anyone your doctor. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship with Dr. Amos Grünebaum, ObGyn Intelligence, or anyone else.
In an emergency, call 911. Do not use this tool first.
Example of one check
146/94
mmHg · 7:58 am · 36 weeks 2 days
Call your clinician today
Pressure is 140/90 or higher with no warning symptoms. The tool asks for a recheck in 15 minutes and tells her to call her clinician today.
Use a cuff that fits your upper arm. A cuff that is too small reads too high.
Sit in a chair with your back supported and both feet flat on the floor.
Rest quietly for 5 minutes first. Do not talk during the reading.
Rest your arm on a table so the cuff is at the level of your heart. Put the cuff on bare skin.
If the number is high, rest 15 minutes and take it again. Enter both.
Showing example data. These are not your readings.
Last 14 days
Streak: 0 days
Dashed lines mark 140/90 (call today) and 160/110 (go to labor and delivery).
No checks yet
Your readings will appear here, newest first, with a chart of the last 14 days. Go to Today to add your first check.
Send your log to your care team
Your readings stay on this device. To share them, copy this summary and send it by text, email, or your patient portal. Send it at every visit, and any time this tool tells you to call.
If Print does nothing, open this tool at tools.obmd.com in your browser and print from there.
Your care team
Tap a number to call, or copy it. Add numbers in Setup.
Daily reminders on your phone
The tool puts reminders into your phone's calendar at the times you chose in Setup: . They repeat every day .
First, make a separate calendar just for these reminders. Then you can remove all of them at once, later, in one step.
Step 1. Make an empty calendar called "BP checks"
iPhone
Open the Calendar app.
Tap Calendars at the bottom.
Tap Add Calendar, name it BP checks, tap Done.
Google Calendar (also for Android phones)
On a computer, go to calendar.google.com.
Next to Other calendars, click +, then Create new calendar.
Name it BP checks and click Create calendar. It will show up on your Android phone by itself.
Outlook
Open Calendar and click Add calendar.
Choose Create blank calendar.
Name it BP checks and save.
Step 2. Add the reminders to "BP checks"
iPhone
Tap the downloaded file.
Tap Add All.
When asked which calendar, choose BP checks.
Google Calendar
On a computer, open calendar.google.com, then the gear icon, then Settings.
Click Import & export, choose the downloaded file.
Under Add to calendar, pick BP checks, then click Import.
Outlook
Click Add calendar, then Upload from file.
Choose the downloaded file.
Pick BP checks and click Import.
Later: remove all reminders after your baby is born
iPhone: Calendar, Calendars, tap the (i) next to BP checks, then Delete Calendar.
Google: Settings, click BP checks on the left, then Remove calendar, then Delete.
Outlook: Right-click BP checks, then Delete.
Your privacy
Everything you enter stays in this browser on this device. Nothing is sent to ObGyn Intelligence or anyone else. If you clear your browser data, your log is erased, so send your summary to your care team often.
Delete every reading and setting?
Disclaimer
This tool is not medical advice. It is for education only. It does not diagnose, treat, or rule out any condition.
It does not replace your doctor or midwife. Always follow the instructions your own care team gives you. If their advice is different from this tool, follow their advice.
No one is watching your readings. Nothing you enter is sent to ObGyn Intelligence or anyone else. No one will see your answers, call you, or follow up with you.
The tool can be wrong, and so can your cuff. If you feel something is wrong, trust that feeling. Call your doctor or midwife, or go to labor and delivery, even if this tool says "All clear."
Using this tool does not make anyone your doctor. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship with Dr. Amos Grünebaum, ObGyn Intelligence, or anyone else.
In an emergency, call 911. Do not use this tool first.
What the numbers and questions are based on
Tool rule
Basis
Type
160 or higher top number, or 110 or higher bottom number: go to labor and delivery now
Severe-range hypertension threshold [1,2]. Home tool escalates without waiting for confirmation.
Guideline
140 to 159 or 90 to 109: recheck in 15 minutes, call clinician today
Diagnostic threshold for hypertension in pregnancy [1]
Guideline
140/90 or higher plus headache, vision change, upper abdominal pain or shortness of breath: go to labor and delivery now
Severe features of preeclampsia [1]
Guideline
Headache, vision change, upper abdominal pain or shortness of breath with normal pressure: call now
Same symptoms listed as severe features [1]; normal home reading does not exclude disease
Guideline
New swelling of face or hands: call today
Edema is not a diagnostic criterion for preeclampsia [1]. Included only as a prompt to check pressure and call.
Tool design choice
Baby moving less: call now
Standard instruction to report decreased fetal movement. No threshold from refs 1 to 4.
Tool design choice
What trials show about home monitoring
Established: the thresholds above [1,2].
Tested and not shown to help with the trial outcome: In BUMP 1, 2,441 higher-risk pregnant women were randomized to home BP self-monitoring or usual care. Time to clinic-recorded hypertension was 104.3 vs 106.2 days (mean difference −1.6 days, 95% CI −8.1 to 4.9) [3]. In BUMP 2, self-monitoring in women with chronic or gestational hypertension did not improve clinic BP control [4].
Shown to help, postpartum: In a randomized trial of 206 postpartum women, text-based remote monitoring obtained at least one BP in the first 10 days in 92.2% vs 43.7% with office follow-up [5].
What this means for the tool: home readings have not been proven to detect hypertension earlier in clinic terms. This tool is built for a different job: making warning symptoms and severe-range readings visible between visits, with an immediate instruction, so a woman like the one with 152/112 does not wait until the pain becomes unbearable. That benefit has not been tested in a trial.