One free app that carries you from pregnancy through labor and the early weeks after, so the prep you do now becomes the support that shows up when you can't bring yourself to ask.
Built by a Registered Social Worker and certified doula with 10 years of clinical experience. The whole app is free.
The part no one prepares you for
During pregnancy you make plans: meals, visitors, who's doing what. Then baby arrives, you're exhausted, and the plans live in scattered text threads. The people who want to help don't know how to.
Cradled gives your village a system. You set it up during pregnancy. It runs itself after birth.
“Kristi was such a calming presence during labour and delivery, turning what would have been an overwhelming time into a positive experience.”
Chapter 1 · Before baby
The conversations and decisions that matter most happen during pregnancy, when you still have bandwidth. Cradled gives them structure so the answers exist when you need them.
Six sections covering everything from pain management to feeding intentions. Build it at your own pace, or with your doula across multiple visits.
Visitors, night shifts, what happens in an emergency. Answer the same questions separately, then see where you agree and where you need to talk, before things move fast.
Invite your people during pregnancy. They learn how you want to be supported before you ever need them: meals, dietary notes, quiet hours, visitor policy.
Chapter 2 · The day itself
You won't be on your phone in active labor. Your partner will. Cradled turns hours of birth class into a structured, in-the-moment companion they can actually use at 3am.
As contractions begin, your partner taps through each stage: early, active, transition, pushing. Each stage tells them what's happening, what to do, what to say, and which comfort techniques to try.
Your affirmations, scents, touch boundaries, the things you don't want to hear. The work you did during pregnancy personalizes everything your partner sees in the moment.
When the care team proposes an intervention, the BRAIN framework and ready-made advocacy phrases are one tap away. So is a contraction timer that quietly shares with your doula.
“Birth partners don't freeze because they don't care. They freeze because no one ever told them what to do. Cradled gives them that script.”
Kristi Field, registered social worker and certified doula
Chapter 3 · After baby
The decisions you made during pregnancy flow into action. Your village activates. You never have to coordinate. You never have to ask.
One tap. Your village is notified, not you. Meals, errands, childcare, or someone to talk to. The coordination burden never lands on you.
You track how you're really doing across six domains. Your partner gets their own check-in too, because postpartum is harder for partners than anyone talks about.
Your village sees what needs doing and claims slots. No group chats. No duplicated effort. Just people showing up.
Working with a doula or care provider?
Cradled works beautifully on its own. If you're working with a doula, lactation consultant, or other birth worker, connecting them means no more digging through emails for appointments, paperwork, and payments.
Book visits with them in the app, with reminders for you and your partner
Read and sign their agreement, and see what's due and when
Fill in their intake form and plans right in the app
See a plain-language summary after each prenatal visit
Message them, with your partner, in one thread
You control what they see, including whether they see your check-in trends. Connecting with a care provider is always free, and while you're connected, Cradled Premium is included. Is your doula not on Cradled yet? You can invite them from the app.
Are you a doula or birth worker? See Cradled for care providers →
From her doula clients
“She is organized, incredibly knowledgeable, and someone you can lean on in your birth journey.”
“From our first doula appointment onwards Kristi brought professionalism, warmth, and invaluable knowledge to my husband and I.”
“Kristi has a gentle, non biased, informed approach that prepares you for the big moment and beyond.”
Built by
Kristi Field is a registered social worker with a decade of clinical experience. After her first birth, she found herself overwhelmed and silently battling postpartum depression, the same experience she'd spent years helping other families through.
She became a certified doula to change that, and has since supported nearly 100 families from pregnancy through the early weeks. The gap she kept seeing wasn't a lack of love. It was a lack of system.
So she built one. With her husband Ian. Cradled is the app they wish they'd had.
Ian Field
Husband · Co-creator
VP of Engineering
Pricing
Your village, your birth plan, Birth Mode, check-ins, and meal trains are all free, for you and your partner. Cradled Premium adds a certified doula's guidance, for when you want a doula in your pocket.
Free
The whole app. For you and your partner.
Cradled Premium
$39.99/year, billed annually
A pocket doula, when you don't have one.
Start free. Add Premium inside the app any time. One Premium covers you and your partner.
Yes. Your village, your birth plan, Birth Mode, daily check-ins, meal trains, and unlimited people helping are all free, for you and your partner, with nothing to unlock. Cradled Premium is an optional add-on for Kristi's guidance.
Premium is guidance from a certified doula: the full guide library of Kristi Field, a registered social worker and doula, plus an in-depth birth plan, weekly guidance matched to your week, and a birth story journal. It's a pocket doula for the moms who don't have one. If you're connected to a doula in the app, Premium is included.
Any point in pregnancy. The earlier you build your birth plan and align with your partner, the more prepared you'll be. Starting in the third trimester still gives you time to set up your village before baby arrives.
No. Cradled works fully on its own: you, your partner, and your village. If you're working with a doula or other care provider, they can connect to your account. And if you don't have one, Cradled Premium gives you doula-style guidance from Kristi whenever you need it.
Yes, your partner gets their own experience. During pregnancy: alignment tool, prenatal check-in, and birth day readiness. After birth: daily check-in and a clear view of what the village is handling. Partners are always free.
Cradled is built for you too. The partner features are simply hidden, so you get the full village experience without any awkward empty states.
Completely. You control exactly who sees what. Your partner and care provider only see what you choose to share, and you can change those settings any time.
You or your partner log the birth, just a date and an optional village announcement. The app shifts from prenatal to postpartum. Your village activates. You never have to coordinate anything.
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