Who Do You Call During iLabour?

No one, silly. Your iPhone can do it all.

My first reaction to Labor Mate – an iPhone application that times your contractions — was something along the lines of “Oh, please. What will they think of next? An app that gets down in your business and looks for crowning?”

Then I remembered those first panicked, anxious hours when it was my job to time contractions and I could barely keep count for all the nerves of being a first-time dad. While I probably wouldn’t have emailed the “contraction log” to my mum or our circle of friends, it would have been nice to have a handy application that wouldn’t say, “Wait a second, is that three minutes? Four? Crap, where are my car keys!”

Has anyone tried this? Is it worth it?