Count the Kicks!

My first child, Wyatt, passed away 8 days after birth. I noticed he stopped kicking when in the womb and went into the doctors office for a non-stress test at 37 weeks. I had an emergency c section because the doctors noticed his heart rate was very low. Unfortunately that didn’t save his life. He survived for 8 days before passing. I am now pregnant with my 2nd child and this app has been really helpful in keeping track of time and the number of kicks. It has relieved a lot of stress.

I downloaded this app after my midwife suggested counting kicks and monitoring baby’s movements to get an idea of baby’s patterns. I like how easy the app is and I like that you can “undo” a kick—very handy feature when you have an overly helpful four-year-old. I do hate that the app takes quite some time to load when you open it, so if you have an idea when you’re going to want to start counting kicks, make sure to open the app a few minutes ahead of time.

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I love the concept of what the app is trying to do, but I feel like the app itself needs a lot of work. It is constantly logging me out, which is frustrating to have to always be logging back in. When it logs me out, then it creates a new profile when I log back in so I can’t actually track much because there are only a couple count sessions on each profile. I haven’t figured out if I can combine the multiple profiles. I also feel like it operates really slowly to load, to start a session, etc. I want to like this more, but it usually just frustrates me and doesn’t work well.

This is a great app to count the kicks every day to ensure baby is doing well. I like that it provides a trend as you go along so you can clearly see if anything is different then it should be. I appreciate the reminders as well that it will send as sometimes life just gets to busy it is nice to have the reminder to slow down and spend some time paying attention to baby and it’s movements.

This app works well for counting kicks and is simple to use. However, it's very annoying that it takes several several seconds to load upon opening app and after hitting the "Start Counting" button. My baby moves quickly so often times she's already kicked 3-4 times before the app even gets to the foot symbol for counting each kick. Sometimes I've also found I have to click the foot symbol a few times before it actually registers that I hit it. This kind of app shouldn't have that much lag time.