Getting Started

Before I start with Lady-Comp / Baby-Comp, is it necessary for me (or my doctor) to programme the device or to feed in any personal data?

No, when you receive the Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp, the year, date and time are already set. You will simply need to set the time that you wish to be awoken.

The next morning you will be woken up by Lady-Comp / Baby-Comp and all you will need to do is press the centre button once and place the thermometer under your tongue for approx. 30 secs. until you hear an acoustic signal indicating the end of the reading, and if necessary press a button to indicate whether you are menstruating at the present time. That is all. Less than a minute and you are finished.

Everything that Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp needs to know about contraception is already programmed into the device.

By evaluating the analysis of the temperature readings which you make every morning it finds out what it needs to know about your individual cycle.

This means that Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp is completing its knowledge of your cycle all the time that it is in operation. This happens quite automatically, without your needing to do a thing.

Additional functions (such as calling up "old" readings in the memory) are simplicity itself. You just need to press a button.

What happens when I start using Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp? Does Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp need a sort of "running-in time", during which I should continue to take the pill?

No, absolutely not. When you take the pill, you do not have a normal cycle since everything is "turned off" by the medication. The bleeding that you have every 28 days when taking the pill is caused by the withdrawal of the medication. It is triggered off by your discontinuing to take the synthetic pill hormones for seven days. This seven-day interval was introduced for psychological reasons to create the impression that you are having a normal cycle. The bleeding caused by the withdrawal of the medication is in no way related to normal menstruation In the same way, no ovulation, and therefore no rise in temperature, takes place when you take the pill.

If you continue to take the pill, Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp is not able to take readings of the natural temperature fluctuations in your cycle. It is therefore superfluous for you to continue to take the pill when you begin using Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp as the device does not require a "running-in time".

At the beginning, Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp works using data history which has been programmed into the device and is applicable for all men and women (therefore also for you) and which therefore enables the device to make reliable forecasts. This data history is increasingly individualised during use. The individualised data makes it possible to narrow down the fertile days from one cycle to another with more and more accuracy.

The "infertile" display is however just as reliable on the first day of use as it is after two to three months. The difference is that at the beginning it appears less frequently.

Can I use Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp immediately after stopping the pill?

The first bleeding after stopping the pill is not a real menstruation, but actually a so-called withdrawal bleeding (as during the seven-day interval when taking the pill) caused by the withdrawal from the hormones in the pill. In the case of most women, 2 - 4 more weeks are required for the biological clock in the brain to resume its activity, meaning that after four more weeks (a total of 6 - 8 weeks after stopping the pill) the first "real" menstruation will begin.

You can begin using Baby-Comp / Lady-Comp at any time. During the time between stopping the pill and the first "real" menstruation, the risk of an unwanted pregnancy is relatively low, as this first cycle is mostly - but not always - anovulatory (i.e., without ovulation). For safety reasons you should use a barrier method for contraception during this time.