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Meet Ava, a Fertility Tracking Bracelet

By M. Christian
June 27, 2017
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This new wearable aids women trying to get pregnant and learn more about their bodies.

After a successful Indiegogo campaign back in 2016, San Francisco-based Ava Science, Inc. began selling its wrist-worn fertility tracking device. This convenient new data-driven tool aims to aid women in their pursuit to bear children.

A view into a woman’s body

Developed as “a clinically tested device that uses sensor technology to reveal what’s really happening with your cycle,” the Ava Bracelet is worn at night, allowing users a new biological degree of self-discovery.

According to Ava Science, Inc., the device offers flexibility in function as it can be used by women who are already pregnant or in cases where ladies just want deeper insight into understanding their bodies.

A new tool for those trying to conceive

However, the developers specify that Ava will be of greatest interest to women trying to conceive a baby. After it’s worn during the night, Ava is then physically connected to a smartphone running a proprietary app (for iOS and Android), which then visually displays and interprets the collected data.

Ava monitors—through a what is referred to as a “medical-grade sensor pod”—the user’s pulse rate, breathing frequency, quality of sleep, skin temperature, movement, bioimpedance (body composition), perfusion (passage of fluids through the circulatory system), and other measurements. Playfully, Ava Science, Inc. acknowledges that its device looks like a butt.

The company further claims that its bracelet can detect a woman’s windows of fertility better than methods such as LH (Luteinizing hormone) and BBT (Basal body temperature) tests, by giving wearers approximately five days per cycle for optimal conception.

Because of its sensitivity, Ava is not recommended for women who are taking hormonal birth control, or who have fertility conditions. Ava Science, Inc. also does not suggest its bracelet as a means of birth control.

A men’s version sometime soon?

While Ava is purely for women, in the coming years we will more than likely see a similar device for men emerge: a bracelet that might, for example, keep an eye on the wearer’s body temperature and hormone levels.

Coupled with a sperm testing peripheral, some of which we’ve already covered, this wearable could also link with something like Ava. Together they could allow women and their partners to know when they are both biologically sync up for the best possible chance at conception.

Wearables and fertility

Part of the surge of wearable technology, Ava joins the ranks of other fertility devices such as the Wink from kindara.com ($129), the Yono ($149.99), and the tempdrop ($99)—though currently Ava is the most expensive at $199.

Ava boasts a pretty impressive scientific pedigree, including being part of a one-year clinical study by the University Hospital of Zurich where it showed 89% accuracy in detecting optimal conception times.

Always consult your doctor

That being said, and not to be needlessly critical toward Ava or any other means of fertility monitoring, it is always recommended that women consult with a specialist before using one such trackers.

The reason is there might be unique or unforeseen personal biological variations that could mess with the readings.

If your fertility doctor says it’s a good idea, then Ava could be just the thing for women who are trying to conceive—or just want to have a new technological window into the processes and activities within their bodies.

Image sources: Ava Women, @AvaWomen

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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