Kate Bauer

Yes, I am going to obliterate any remaining possibility of every getting a date in the future - by future, I mean as long as I am searchable on the web - by continuing to blog about issues of fertility, monthly cycle monitoring and making babies (’cause you know that is the first thing EVERYONE wants to talk about.)

So here goes: I found this app, called Mon.thly.info, in my RSS last week and was too tired from my broken hand to type it all out. Basically, you add in some dates about your cycle and it generates stats based on that. Email reminders are sent out when estimated start date is indicated (based on the numbers of the average woman’s cycle. Therefore, irregular cycles need not apply here.)

The interface is very web 2.0 and quite fun. I didn’t feel weird having it open in the browser, as I often do with so many other sites on fertility and monthly cycle monitoring. That’s a plus (no pun intended.)

I haven’t put any information in but plan to update the post once I know more about the core functionality. My fave parts so far are that it provides an average cycle duration and YOUR normal day of ovulation (not the textbook date.) It lets you know also what stage of the cycle you are in, which most women I have spoken to do not even know themselves (aka: “follicu-what?!”)

I’m curious, though, how it knows the stage of the cycle you’re in if your stages are based upon ovulation which is indicated by factors other than just the number of the date since the start of the cycle. Have to chat with these guys…