Labor Mate

Labor Mate is the labor contraction stopwatch of choice 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 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 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.
- 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 wifes 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.

NOTE: The crashes reported in the review for versions prior to 1.2 have been fixed. I apologize for any inconvenience this caused and hope those affected will use Labor Mate again if/when the next little one is on the way.