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there we go big bites very good good boy high five Katherine fordin has a lot to cheer about these days she's now pregnant with her second child after nearly a year of trying it was just a lot of waiting and hoping and using an app every day she would use the free oviya fertility app to log her cycle to help identify her fertile days I felt like it was not only a personal experience but that I was a maybe a little bit more in control of sort of what was happening we're really trying to help them use their data to predict their exact fertile window tell them when to have intercourse to increase their chances of conception so that they can get pregnant faster Gina novice are from a v-line claims seventy thousand women have reported getting pregnant while using the oviya app every day she opens up the app and she enters her data and she sees an immediate score of how fertile she is that day as well as a projection of when she will be fertile the more you use it the better at work so the more data we have about you the better we can predict your fertile days with hundreds of these types of apps available doctors say they can be good for understanding your body but say the technology has limitations sometimes situations may be a little more complicated than the smartphone apps can really give information about i would definitely caution one to think that there's not some magic bullet here that you know we've been able to do this without smartphones for a while as for fordin she says the app provided her some comfort I don't know about getting me pregnant but I think I can give it some credit on giving me peace of mind and making me feel a little bit more ease throughout those last few really frustrating months now just a few months of waiting before she has her baby in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News you