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Bloomlife, to help you measure pregnancy contractions
A sensor and an application
Bloomlife is a box that measures electrical activity of the uterine muscle. It is placed on the belly of the future mother, using a hypoallergenic patch which lasts about 7 days. The patch then communicates to the mobile app dedicated, by bluetooth, information concerning contractions.
The future parents can thus follow in real time the curve of the said contractions, their frequency and their period : no need to count yourself! It also allows you to better understand what is happening in your body.
Preparatory contractions, or childbirth in sight?
Bloomlife’s objective is to support future parents in discern contractions before childbirth – often called “Braxton Hicks contractions”, which can occur upstream from the 6th month of pregnancy – those who announce imminent baby’s arrival and childbirth. The goal is therefore to avoid unnecessary back and forth trips to the clinic. Ultimately, thanks to all the data collected, the goal will also be to prevent early births, more and more numerous.
Rental service
The use of Bloomlife connected patch Being of short duration, the service is available as a monthly rental over one, two or three months, with a first launch in the United States in February. Future mothers can nevertheless now go to the site to book the date they wish to receive it. Before this official launch, the device was tested upstream by around a hundred women, thus enabling the company to ensure a level of precision identical to devices used in hospitals.
In conclusion, here is a innovation which has been widely spotted in the very recent CES 2017 (Annual Las Vegas Innovations Show, which takes place in January) and which follows the movement of personalized and autonomous “tracking”, which can be found in the fields of health and sport. She has the merit of wanting help future mothers to better manage the stress of first contractions who arrive, and not to rush to the emergency room unnecessarily. Nevertheless, it does not in any way replace a doctor, any more than it is made to oppose the maternal instinct; so, if in doubt, moms should trust each other and run at the hospital for a check-up !
Practical information
Price: $ 150 (€ 140) for 1 month, $ 250 (€ 233) for 2 months and $ 300 (€ 280) for 3 months.
La Box : Bloomlife is delivered in the form of a box with the sensor, spare patches and a manual to be returned once use is complete.
Application available on IOS and Android.
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