Labor Mate 1.5 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested - iPhone - iPod Touch - 293822973 Category: Healthcare & Fitness Author: White Peak Software Inc Vote(s): 917 Price: $0.99 Released: October 17, 2008 Version: 1.5 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested Download Labor Mate Get Labor Mate for $0.99
Labor Mate - White Peak Software Inc
** 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, 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 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.
- 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 support@whitepeaksoftware.com. 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://www.facebook.com/pages/White-Peak-Software/166950869997152.
Thank you! 2008-2010 White Peak Software Inc
Labor Mate reviewed by Users
Works like it should Used it throughout a night of contractions and it worked flawlessly. No crashes, no problems, and it was easy to keep track of an average. If there was anything to update about the app, I would want the 'Summary' screen to be able to average based on a time period or number of contractions (average over last 5 contractions or over last hour, etc.) as an average over the entire night can be a little misleading. However, that is looking to the next version - good luck.
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Version 1.3
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May 17, 2009
- Labor Mate review by
stevenwt2
super!!! I started using the app, but of course ny husband ended up tracking everything as the night progressed. we were both SO pleased with your application keeping track at a time when we couldn't have focused on much! my husband made a point of showing off your app to our midwife and all the labor & delivery staff. thank you!
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Version 1.3
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Apr 28, 2009
- Labor Mate review by
kaijabatd
Great Mate! Such a great app for such a great price. I kept track of my contractions religiously with this app and it never failed on me once. I emailed all my logs so i could print and keep for baby's scrapbook. Thanks for the great app!
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Version 1.2
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Apr 8, 2009
- Labor Mate review by
SunkistHoney801
So glad to have it! Thank you for such a great app. I am currently awaiting my son to arrive and as my wife is sleeping I will use the time to say thank you!
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Version 1.2
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Mar 15, 2009
- Labor Mate review by
Crazy nyarb
Works as advertised I like the addition of the "are you sure?" before clearing the data.
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Version 1.2
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Mar 3, 2009
- Labor Mate review by
Peace and Movies
Kept crashing Worked great for a few hours. Then it kept crashing. Wasn't 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. - Labor Mate review by 8 frames
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. - Labor Mate review by iPhoneMommy
Used today to deliver our little baby girl My wife and I used this app just this morning to assist in the delivery of our baby girl. It was great to measure the contractions and then send the data to our midwife. I would only recommend that an "Are you sure?" is added before deleting your data. Job well done! - Labor Mate review by bjgarrison
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. - Labor Mate review by Thorne
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.] - Labor Mate review by kirbyt
Great Application! 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 they're 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! - Labor Mate review by s0n
Needs time and date 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 - Labor Mate review by Ravenlb9
Great tool for the job 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 don't 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 - Labor Mate review by ChikkyMonkey
Didn't work when needed it the most 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!!! - Labor Mate review by Colleen271
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Labor Mate - iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application ** 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... White Peak Software Inc - Released: October 17, 2008 - Vote(s): 917
