This Couple's App Helped 10,000 Women Get Pregnant And They Say It Can Replace Birth Control Too

Business Insider ^ | 23 February 2014 | Julie Bort

[Lorianne]

Want to get pregnant? There's an app for that ... actually a few apps for that. And they are proving to be remarkably helpful.

Want to avoid pregnancy? Kindara, an iPhone app created by a husband and wife team in Boulder, Colo., promises that it can be your birth control, too, letting women get off the pill.

Kindara was released in 2012 to do a similar thing. But, unlike Glow, its founders say this app can now not only help a woman conceive, but also avoid pregnancy while allowing women to get off of hormone-based birth control like the pill, patch or ring.

Sacks answered a few questions about the app for us:

Business Insider: Did you create this app because you were having trouble starting a family?

William Sacks: We actually founded the company because we were looking for effective birth control that wasn't the pill. Kati had been on the pill for 10 years and she didn't like the side effects. She introduced me to the fertility awareness method and I was blown away by how little I understood about female fertility. I was actually outraged that I had never been taught how reproduction actually works.

Once we started tracking her fertility signs I learned all about how her body worked and also discovered an added intimacy in our relationship. We wanted to share this with other couples, so we started Kindara out of our own desire to give women and men tools that help them take control of their health, understand what's happening with their bodies and meet their fertility goals.

[Vince Ferrer]

Something tells me that big Pharma will not stand by and allow computer software cut into profits.

Or the government will not like not being able to stick it's nose in what up until 50 years ago was family business.

[Jim from C-Town]

I don’t think this is a new app as my wife used a similar app or website to chart her fertility and it worked great.

Five is what happens when NFP fails.

Just like all forms of ‘birth control’ adherence to the system is required for success.

[castlegreyskull]

This would only work if you have a monogamous relationship. Seems like that might be a rarity these days. Otherwise, throw the advice the window.

[ottbmare]

I remember way back when my Mom told me there was a word for women who used the Catholic Rhythm birth control method :”pregnant”

NFP is a lot different from the rhythm method. With the old rhythm method you just figured out by dates when you could and couldn't have sex. Doing it by dates is going to fail sooner or later, and probably sooner. NFP is beautiful, and it works.

[Salvation]

Natural family planning is not the old rhythm method.

Totally different.

[Salvation]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3126283/posts?page=25#25

[sickoflibs]

RE :”NFP is a lot different from the rhythm method. With the old rhythm method you just figured out by dates when you could and couldn't have sex. Doing it by dates is going to fail sooner or later, and probably sooner. NFP is beautiful, and it works. “

I have no reason to doubt you.

it would be helpful if you posted a quick comparison and why one works and the other doesn't.

Thanks

[fatima]

:) One time my husband just kissed me and I became pregnant.

[sickoflibs]

RE :’:) One time my husband just kissed me and I became pregnant.”

I believe you.

Who were you hiding in the bedroom when that happened ??

BAWHAHA

:)

[fatima]

:) Now my husband and I just shake hands-Heheheheheh

[sickoflibs]

Do you wear gloves when you do it?

[fatima]

Come to think of it we are just waving now-just nod our heads.Hehehehhehe

[sickoflibs]

have you ever been in the same room together?

[fatima]

No ,.Hehehehhe

[ottbmare]

it would be helpful if you posted a quick comparison and why one works and the other doesn't.

Simple. Women's cycles are not exactly regular. The old rhythm method noted when menstruation occurred, how long each cycle lasted, assumed ovulation took place at the midpoint of the cycle, and suggested that couples abstain from sex for a week around the time of ovulation. But cycles vary. Ovulation can take place long before or after the calendar says it could, sperm and egg can hang around the female reproductive tract, and anyway fertilization does not take place just a few minutes after intercourse. This method was just a pregnancy waiting to happen.

NFP, on the other hand, assembles a lot of different data points to determine when a woman is about to ovulate--her temperature, the state of her cervix, the liquidity of mucus, hormone levels in her urine, etc.--to generate considerable accuracy.

[savagesusie]

Yep-—the most vilified document in the history of the Catholic Church. As Machiavelli stated, “The Truth is more hated than Lies”.

[sickoflibs]

Thanks, that was very helpful.