First FDA-Approved Birth Control Wearable Tech Hits the Market
If your method of birth control involves abstaining from sex on the days when you’re most fertile, you might be monitoring changes in your body — such as subtle temperature fluctuations — to help determine exactly where you are in your menstrual cycle.One of the tricky things about this approach is that you need to remember to take your temperature first thing every morning.Now there’s a contraception app that can make this easier by syncing with a device on your finger that records your temperature while you sleep.What Is This Technology?Natural Cycles was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2018 as the first direct-to-consumer contraception app. It helps prevent pregnancy by calculating the days each month when people are most likely to be fertile according to slight…