YoMingo

Bad: This app had an update recently. Ever since, my feeding logs are always incorrect. I can put the information and once I hit save it defaults to current time and info like I never changed it when logging. I also have to frequently login. Good: love the download feature. I can download my log and print to take to my sons doctor appt.

The app does not keep you logged in. I have to login every single time I open the app which is super frustrating. Even if you choose “remember me” it still logs you out every single time.

I am 100% shocked that my OBGYN clinic pushes this app. This app needs to be improved in so many ways. I don’t understand how it is lacking so much. I think the only thing I enjoy out of the app is the countdown to when baby arrives. I will be deleting this and sticking with my other baby tracking apps.

Great way to track details of my pregnancy. I find the feeding and diaper logs especially helpful now that the baby is here. The ability to download the logs I’ve completed has been helpful for doctors appointments. Unfortunately the app can be glitchy at times. Right now I’m unable to sign in to continue logging information.

I received an email from YoMingo a few moments ago after having gone a little over a year since the passing of my daughter. The subject line was: “Baby News Week 50: Just say no” You cannot imagine how hurtful it is to read something like this that assumes you’re walking around with a 50 week old living baby and giving tips on how to care for them. I wouldn’t exactly be opposed to general advice, especially from an app that obviously doesn’t know what happened to me, but the email itself had too much personal information for me to mentally disconnect with it in that way. To name me and then list the presumed age of my dead baby… how I should be setting limits with her and go about teaching her how to walk… I probably sound dramatic, but this destroyed me today. It has reminded me of the Faustian bargain we have all made with big tech and personal health data. There is little I can do on my own to fix our society’s declining relationship with tech, but I have thought of some ways your devs can prevent retraumatizing women who have had similar experiences as mine. Please consider making the following modifications to your app: 1. Make it easier to unsubscribe from YoMingo emails. You should not have to log into the app itself to do this. It may not seem like much, but having to reset my password after a year only added to the stress and anxiety I was experiencing. I had completely forgotten this app existed until this email. 2. Refrain from using personalization and automation in your emails. I understand the need to send out newsletters and reminders during the presumed pregnancy. But as far as I know I haven’t received an email from this app since before my stillbirth. For it to suddenly address me by name and my baby’s presumed life stages was horrifying in a way I can only describe as dystopic. 3. Reach out to the health network to get updated information. Don’t leave it on patients to inform YoMingo that our babies are dead. Get the necessary data and quietly update the database and profile information. Please consider what I am saying here seriously, and help prevent further and unnecessary trauma for mothers like me.

The app worked fine for the first 8 months but now it doesn’t load any but a couple of pages. It’s basically wasted phone memory presently…..

I’ve got an account created, but all the app does is “load” I never get past the log in screen and a blank loading screen. Super frustrating because my doctor wants me to use this app and it just clearly doesn’t work.

The user experience is clunky and weird, but you can get used to it. New bug just introduced in latest update - if you’re on the tools dashboard, on the day view, it no longer gives you the feelings, changes, etc from just that day. It’s also giving you three to four hours of the day before. If you’re looking for what you did late in the day, like 9 or 10 pm, you actually have to click on tomorrow. It’s like it’s not properly categorizing the day something was logged.

My doctor suggested I download this app, but it crashes every time I try to put in the correct due date.

I downloaded this app at the recommendation of my hospital. The videos are informative, but the content is hard to find. I also was hoping it would have trackers that I could share with my spouse and pull up at doctor appointments, but they feel very antiquated and not a “one stop app” like I’d hoped.