Labor Mate
By White Peak Software Inc
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Description
** MacBreak Weekly App Pick of the Week (July 21) **
Labor Mate is the labor contraction stopwatch of choice for many expecting parents. Labor Mate makes tracking a woman's 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 or head off to the hospital for delivery. With Labor Mate, timing contractions has never been so easy to master.
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 can't 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.
- Displays the average duration and frequency.
- Shows how much time remains until the big day.
The inspiration for Labor Mate comes from my own personal experience assisting my wife with the arrival of our baby boy. At the time Labor Mate did not exists nor did the App Store. I used the stopwatch feature on my wristwatch, a pencil and a piece of paper. The more frequent the contractions the more confusing and time consuming tracking each contraction became. This became problematic for me because after all my primary role was to help calm and support my wife. Capturing data was secondary.
Soon after our baby boy was born I thought to myself, "There has to be a better way to track my wife's contractions without interfering with my primary role as support partner." With plans for a second baby in the near future I set out to create a better way, thus became Labor Mate.
I wish you all the best with the arrival of your new baby boy or baby girl, and I hope you find Labor Mate as useful as I will when the time comes for the birth of my second child.
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What's New in Version 1.6
bug fixes - fix the "No" button touch area displayed after touching the Reset button.
Customer Reviews
Message from author
@IPhoneMommy, As of version 1.2 individual logged contractions can be deleted. Thanks for the suggestion.
@ChikkyMonkey, As of version 1.2, the reset button now resets the stopwatch timer to 00:00:00. Thank you for the suggestion.
@bjgarrison, @thorne, As of version 1.2, the reset button now prompts for confirmation before delete the logged contractions. Thanks for the suggestion.
@8frames, @thorne, @colleen271, As of version 1.2, I believe I tracked down the cause of the random crashes and provided a fix in version 1.2. I apologize for the inconvience the crashes caused you.
@ChikkyMonkey, thanks for the feedback. Great suggestions. I'll add the feature and make the change you requested. And congradulations on the upcoming arrival of your new bundle of joy.
@8frames, sorry to hear Labor Mate crashed on you after a few hours. If you have any details related to the crash please post it on our support web site and I will make every effect to correct the problem. For what it is worth I have performed numerous tests on Labor Mate including letting it run for days and have never had a crash so you can imagine my surprise when I head your review.
@ravenlb9, thanks for the suggestion. Date and time were added to version 1.1.
@aobabinski, thanks for the suggestion. Email feature was added to version 1.1.
@s0n, thank you for the suggestions. Deleting individually tracked contractions is coming in an upcoming release.
@Collean271, I'm very sorry the data was unexpectedly erased. I have done extensive testing and have never seen this odd behavior before. Unfortunately there is no easy way to know what unique curcumstances existed that caused the problem, but I will continue testing and improving the app in hopes that others will not experience the same problem.
[Disclaimer: I am the author of Labor Mate. Since there is no official way for me to reply to feedback I am posting my reply as a feedback.]
All data lost during labor
I really wanted this app to work for me and my expecting wife. When her water broke on 1/22/2009 at midnight, I immediately grabbed labor mate with a big smile on my face. I was forced to hand her the iPod as I had to pack some stuff. 20 minutes in, I hear "WTF?everything is gone!". We tried again, two more times and each time lost all our data. I had to resort to pen and paper, and contractionmaster.com. I'm not sure how to reproduce the issue, but after each contraction, my wife would gently toss the ipod aside. 3 times the data was lost.
A couple of recommendations:
1. If reset is tapped, pop up a confirmation dialog!
2. Instead of a small button to start and stop, use the whole screen.
3. Remove the reset button from the timing screen all-together. Put it on a separate screen and still pop up a confirmation dialog.
No thanks to labor mate, my wife and I still had a wonderful birth experience. We are now the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl.
Great app for 24+ hours of labor
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.
- Category: Healthcare & Fitness
- Updated Feb 05, 2010
- Current Version: 1.6
- 1.6 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 0.1 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: White Peak Software Inc
- © 2008-2009 White Peak Software Inc
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
