Labor Mate - contraction timer app for iPhone and iPad
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Labor Mate is the labor contraction stopwatch of choice for many expecting parents. Labor Mate makes tracking a womans labor contractions as easy as touching a button. Tap the stopwatch button once to start the contraction timer and tap it again to stop the timer. As the contractions become longer and more frequent Labor Mate tracks the information for you and reports the timings back in an easy-to-read format so you can decide when it is time to call the doctor, your doula or midwife, or head off to the hospital or birthing center for delivery.
Labor Mate provides two screens for monitoring the contractions, a detail screen and an summary screen. The detail screen shows the duration of each contraction and the time between contractions. The summary screen shows the average duration of the contractions based on the last 3 contractions and the average time between contractions based on the last 6 contractions. This information helps you decide when it is time to call the doctor or head off to the hospital for delivery.
So what fun is buying an application when you cant take advantage of it right away? After all it is not likely you will buy Labor Mate the moment the contractions start, though you might. This is why Labor Mate includes a Due Date Countdown screen. Enter the expected due date and Labor Mate will show you how many weeks and days have passed as well as how much time remains.
FEATURES:
- Tap the timer anywhere to start and stop the contraction timer.
- Contraction timer continues to run even if you switch applications or make/receive a phone call.
- Track the duration of each contraction.
- Track the time between contractions.
- Displays date and time of the contraction.
- Add notes to individually recorded contractions.
- Delete unwanted recorded contractions without needing to start over.
- Email the contraction log to family, friends, and healthcare providers.
- Post updates to Twitter and Facebook.
- Displays the average duration and frequency.
- Shows how much time remains until the big day.
SUPPORT
Please send your bug reports and feature requests to [email protected]. This is the best way to ensure we receive your request. You can also find us on Twitter at @whitepeak and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/whitepeaksoftware.
Thank you!
Pros and cons of Labor Mate - contraction timer app for iPhone and iPad
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Very easy to use. Beats the crap out of paper and pencil. When the pain gets progressively worse, this app makes tracking your contractions a snap. Easy to see trends to tell how far away or close you are.
Were having our fourth baby; this was a great app for tracking and recording contractions. The ability to email the log is also very helpful.
Nice and simple to use. Was an excellent app to use for the few hours we needed it!
A way of resuming or editing individual contractions wouldve been handy. Also a simple charting of contractions over a timeline wouldve been helpful.
I had to time my own contractions as my husband was too busy packing food and getting the rest of our bags ready for the hospital. This is a very application to use! The only negative is that it doesnt keep the information log for long. I wanted to see the log about a month later to check the frequency of my contractions and they were no longer in the application.
This is a pretty simple contraction timing app, but thats all I was looking for - so I wouldnt have to do math while in labor.
There are a couple of things Id love to see added - when a contraction is deleted it would be SO nice if the app would recalculate the frequency between the last two contractions - but that is frozen once a contraction is stopped. It would also be really nice if you could manually edit start and stop times somehow (for when you thought your contraction was over....but it wasnt. Or for when you didnt get to your iPod right when the contraction started etc.
In any case - Im in labor right now, and am thankful for the app :).
Some bad moments
Worked great for a few hours. Then it kept crashing. Wasnt able to retrieve my info. Of course, this was going on while my wife was in labor. Moral of the story? Use pen and paper.
My wife is due any day, I just downloaded it as it seemed to have the best user interface of the others... Tested it and seems really good, was just complaining to my wife that I dont have a way to count seconds on my phone.... Two small suggestions: 1. would be nice to have a save feature though email also works 2. When I click reset it does not change the counter to 0 until I click start again... Really minor issue for a great app THANKS
I need to know what time the contraction happened and date. This would be a great app if you could add the time and date
Does what it needed to do...nothing more, nothing less. It has a straight forward interface, is priced right, and was built by someone that listens to feedback to improve their product (always a plus!). Couple of suggestions (not sure if theyre good or not) would be the ability to be able to delete false contractions and have a way change the settings so that once you start the app, it starts the countdown. Let me know if these help or not. Thanks!
Long story short- my husband was recording my contractions for 20min when it randomly erased the entries! Not the time you want it to stop working!!!
I used this application to keep track of my contractions during the labor of my second child. It was great to have the ability to just push an onscreen button at the start and finish of each contraction and have the app keep track of the length and frequency of contractions. Since I was also watching my toddler daughter through early labor, it was really great to be able to just have the application document the labor and to also be able to exit and enter the application quickly so that I could make phone calls, check email and do other things during my 32+ hour labor. I really liked the large numbers on the clock; I was easily able to check it during a contraction and determine approximately how much longer it would last. It was handy to be able to email the contraction log as well. The one feature that I wished this app had is the ability to delete a contraction if you accidentally touched the onscreen button. Otherwise, it was very, very useful for me.
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