YoMingo

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.

I used the app throughout my pregnancy and loved that I could search for the topic and read the content relating to it. The videos were helpful because reading can get boring and I found the videos to be engaging.

It’s helpful that this app includes educational content AND multiple tracking tools in one place, keeping me from having to download multiple apps. My favorite feature is the milestone tracker. I wish that it sent notifications to my phone, but that’s not a deal breaker for me. I just log in each week and check progression. It has cute fruit and veggie graphics to compare your baby’s size to and a (non-creepy) video that shows the development.

Due date is entered correctly, however the app is stating one week ahead. All other apps and my doctor are stating 31 weeks while the app says 32.

I was given access to this app for free by my doctor because no usual classes can be offered due to coronavirus. The app crashes every time I open a folder, I can’t read anything at all.