ABSTRACT
Informed by the findings of two projects involving interviews and focus group discussions with Australian women, this chapter examines young mothers’ use of apps to monitor pregnancy and their young children. The concept of dataveillance is combined with feminist new materialism scholarship in analysing these materials. Caring dataveillance can be experienced by women as a liberating practice, but it is undertaken in a broader context in which it is demanded of them as part of the norms of ‘good’ (watchful) motherhood and where their own emotional and physical needs may be neglected in the best interests of their infants.
