Tomber Enceinte provides general information and estimates to help you get to know your cycle. It is not medical advice: the app does not replace your doctor or midwife, who know your situation. Nor is it a method of contraception.
This page explains, in plain language, what the app can do for you, and what it does not do. It is shown to you the first time you open the app.
1. What Tomber Enceinte is not
- It is not a medical device or a diagnostic tool: the app cannot diagnose any disease or fertility problem.
- It is not a method of contraception. Its predictions must never be used to avoid a pregnancy.
- It is not a promise: the app does not guarantee a pregnancy, nor within any given time.
- It is not personalised medical advice: the app knows nothing of your medical history, tests or treatments.
2. Predictions, not certainties
- The fertile window, ovulation and the date of your next period are estimates, calculated from the information you log. They can be wrong, especially at first, or with irregular cycles, stress, illness, after stopping contraception or during treatment.
- A positive ovulation test signals an LH surge, which usually comes before ovulation. It makes the estimate more precise, but does not prove that ovulation has occurred.
- Only a pregnancy test, then a health professional, can confirm a pregnancy.
3. Pépin's answers
Pépin's answers are written automatically by an artificial intelligence, drawing on official sources. They may be incomplete or inaccurate. Pépin makes no diagnosis, recommends no medicine and does not replace a doctor.
4. When to see a doctor
According to official French recommendations, you are advised to see a doctor after 12 months of regular intercourse without contraception before the age of 35, and after 6 months from 35 onwards (source, in French: Santé.fr). Do not wait that long if your cycles are very irregular or absent, if your periods are very painful, if you have a medical history, or simply if you have any doubt: your doctor or midwife is there to talk it through.
5. What you should never do
- Use the app as a means of contraception.
- Delay seeing a doctor, or ignore a symptom, because a prediction or an answer seems reassuring.
- Start, stop or change a treatment based on the app alone.
6. In an emergency
Severe or unusual pain, unusual bleeding, fever, feeling faint, or any symptom that worries you: do not wait. Call your doctor, your midwife or the emergency services: 112, the European emergency number, works everywhere in the European Union; in France you can also dial 15 (SAMU). Outside Europe, call your local emergency number.
7. Legal scope
This page is for information. It supplements, without replacing, the terms of use and sale, which are legally binding.