Multipurpose pregnancy and labor timing device

摘要

A multipurpose pregnancy and labor timing device for use by expectant parents during the gestation, labor, and birth of their child. The timing device includes an output device for conveying a plurality of datum to a human ovserver. The datum conveyed may represent a current time, day and date, an expected date of birth of the child, an estimated elapsed time period since the conception date of the child, an estimated time period until the birth of the child, the count of contractions experienced by a woman undergoing the process of labor, the time interval between contractions, the duration of a contraction, and the actual time and date of the birth of the child. The timing device also includes a nonvolatile memory for storing at least some of the plurality of datum, a data selection device for selecting at least some of the plurality of datum for conveyance by the output device, and a data initialization device for initializing the first datum and the second datum. The timing device further includes a processor control device for performing a first sequence of operations to store at least some of the plurality of datum into the nonvolatile memory, for performing a second sequence of operations to retrieve at least some of the plurality of datum from the nonvolatile memory so that at least some of the plurality of datum is conveyed by the output device, and for calculating at least some of the plurality of datum.