Firbit discriminate against mums

[Annie2508]

Hello ladies, just looking for a little added support...
I have a fitbit to help get back into shape... but there are no features to allow for breastfeeding so I can't accurately assess calorie burn or needs. When I contacted fitbit they have no plans to add any despite over 1500 people wanting this on their forum page.
Smells like discrimination to me..
So I'm hoping a few of you who also use fitbits might help me lobbying for change by posting on their social media sites and sharing this.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women want to get fit too.. the data is out there, they could include it..let's stop this discrimination!

As said on your other post, stop being so precious and deduct the poxy 200 max extra cals you burn yourself!!

Breastfeeding an ebf baby burns between 400-600cals a day, reducing gradually as your baby eats more solid food.

I just created it as a cardio exercise. I don't see how it could be an inbuilt feature because how often and how much a baby is fed varies wildly. I still credit myself 100 cals a day because my 17 month old still feeds at least 10 times. I'm probably underestimating. Other babies his age may only feed once or twice, or not at all.

You can get fit without needing a Fitbit.

'Discrimination' when I sit on the sofa on my fat arse I occasionally have a sneaky nose pick. Fitbit doesn't take these calories burned into consideration. It's discrimination against secret nose pickers I tell you! We shall rise up and be listened to!!!!!

This is a ridiculous point of view. It isn’t discrimination. They just don’t offer additional features to calculate breastfeeding calories.

I'm not at all defensive, more perplexed that anyone would think this was reasonable!!

And no, it really is more like 200 cals than 500. Literally no more than a large banana so hardly difficult to deduct yourself when you imput data!

Ooh @katykins85 something ruffled your feathers?!

BF does usually burn more like 500 cals daily. Deduct it yourself OP, but you're right it is a bit shit.

They used to but it was rubbish. The extra calorie burn varies hugely so there is no way to measure this. How are they supposed to work it out, depends on baby age, baby weight, whether they're sick, weaning, on feed it the evening, etc.

No idea why people are being cunts on this threads.

OP it’s a perfectly reasonable request to Fitbit. After all, new mums make up a fair proportion of the population and they tend to want to lose some baby weight. Loads of them will be buying fitbits. It really wouldn’t be difficult for Fitbit to add a facility to account for breastfeeding. It would be a great selling point.

I think you need a

Or as PP’s have said you could just account for the 4-600 calories yourself like everyone else does and stop being so precious.

Also that’s not what discrimination means.

Discrimination

Most indulgent post in ages

Discrimination my arsehole.

While you're at it can you add that it also discriminates against people with fat house cats, as there is no option to calculate the extra calories burned when toting said lazy cat around the house like a bag of spuds.

There should be an option... did you see the book that Caroline Criado-Perez has written about men being the default? Eg Pedometers don't always detect steps if you're walking with a pram I ran to nursery and back this week with a running double buggy and mine said I'd done 100 steps for 5.4km

How would fitbit know how many calories you're burning by breastfeeding? Surely this varies massively?

They used to have this, it was crap and very inaccurate; people moaned to high heaven and it was removed.

I am not at all surprised that they have no plans to bring it back.

They don't register if I am pushing a trolley. If you carry something up the stairs e.g. a basket of washing then the stairs don't register either

I don’t think you understand what discrimination means.
It’s not this.

Kellymom says 300-500 cals for breastfeeding

And how would you know which end of the range you were at?

Pedometers don't always detect steps if you're walking with a pram

This I agree is very annoying. Constantly putting my Fitbit in my pocket when I'm out with the kids, which is inconvenient.

Breastfeeding calories just vary far too much between babies.