Did anyone's DMs use a plastic period tracker in the 1980s?

[TomWambsgansSwans]

I am wracking my brains and googling trying to think what this might be called!

My mum had a period tracker thing like a tiny little coronavirus shaped circle that she must have used to mark her periods in the 1980s. I remember fiddling with it on her bedside table!

(We were Catholic and I had numerous siblings so I'm not sure how effective it was!)

Google isn't finding anything...

If you fiddled with it, maybe she lost her place - hence the siblings ...😂

Yes! DM was a midwife though and told me it was used for calculating delivery dates, don’t think she used it herself

Was it a persona contraceptive device. I had one in the 1990's. You had to wee on a stick place it in the machine and it would tell you if you were in a safe zone for sex

actually having found what I remember on internet I think you are talking about something different, this is what I remember

Isn't this what midwives used to use many years ago to calculate dates?

They still use them!

What's a coronavirus shaped circle?

Sounds like cyclebeads but not. Coronavirus shaped en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycleBeads

I was a young woman then - but it was about expected dates for birth.

I was growing up in the 80s and as far as I remember we just wrote it on the calendar and counted on our fingers.

Coronavirus shape?

All the midwives used those in the 80s but if I remember rightly to calculate yourself you go back 3 calendar months from first day of LMP then add a week. Something like that.

I think I can visualise what you mean - by Coronavirus Shaped do you mean it had 28 little spikes that could be pulled out or pushed in, like a 2d virus illustration?

I think the closest thing on the market at the moment is this:
https://www.thebodyagency.com/products/smartcycle%C2%AE-period-tracker

My brother was born in 1982, and I recall my mum adding a little, circular, coloured sticker to her calendar every day. I have no idea what it was for though? I 'assume' this was when she was pregnant and counting down the days, but possibly it was cycle tracking? I was nearly 5 when he was born, but still recall the daily, little stickers.

I think contraceptive pills in the US came in round packets like that, rather than the oblong ones I remember from the U.K. Maybe there's something your good Catholic mother wasn't telling you

I used to note the date I started my period in my diary 🤷‍♀️

I remember my friend being mortified that her DMtracked her periods on the kitchen calendar! My friend was accident, maybe why her DM was so careful?!

Like this!

Oh wow, I can't believe other people remember it!

I definitely remember it being coronavirus shaped - kind of circular with nobbles on it!

It actually did look like that @AllLopsided but we are in England and I would be stunned if my mum was on the pill - maybe she was though!!