$200 for a wearable fertility tracker" This couple thinks it's worth it
by Michelle Stein posted in Pregnancy
There are many ways couples can try to pinpoint their window of fertility each month: ovulation predictor kits, charting basal body temperature, ovulation calculators, checking the consistency of cervical mucous. But would they be willing to drop $200 on a Fitbit-like tracker"
Apparently, they would -- as the first baby conceived with the help of an Ava fertility tracker was recently born.
Lizzie and Sam McGee of Utah had tried for more than a year to get pregnant with baby number two. After Lizzie wore an Ava for only three months, they ended up conceiving.
"The experience of conceiving our first child was really difficult and stressful on our marriage, and I didn't want to go through the same thing again with our second," McGee said in a news release. Last month, the couple welcomed a baby boy named Jace --  who is the first confirmed "Ava baby" born since the bracelet's consumer launch in August 2016.
What's so special about Ava, anyway" This high-tech fertility tracker claims to tell you in real time when you're ovulating. It does so by tracking nine physiological parameters -- including pulse rate, breathing rate, heart rate variability, and temperature -- which all help indicate a rise in the reproductive hormones, progesterone and estradiol. Using all of this information, the bracelet is able to detect a 5.3-day fertile window in a woman's cycle. Users wear the Ava bracelet only at night...
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