When a client gives birth, you can log the details in Cradled. This both transitions them from prenatal to postpartum and populates your birth outcomes analytics.
Where to log a birth
Client detail → Log birth (button at the top of any prenatal client's page).
You can also log births for managed clients you worked with before Cradled existed — useful for backfilling your data.
Fields
- Date and time of birth
- Delivery type — vaginal, caesarean, VBAC, etc.
- Location — home, hospital, birth center, other.
- Interventions — epidural, induction, episiotomy, forceps, vacuum, etc. (multi-select).
- Labour duration — total hours.
- Support present — who was there (partner, doula, family).
- Experience rating — the client's (or your) subjective rating of the experience, 1–5.
- Private notes — your internal observations about the birth.
What happens when you log
- The client moves from Prenatal or Due Soon to Postpartum.
- On connected clients, postpartum content unlocks in their mobile app.
- The birth appears in your Reports → Births tab.
- Your practice's birth analytics update — rates by delivery type, common interventions, experience correlations.
Backfilling past births
You can log a birth for any client, including managed clients you added retroactively. The birth date doesn't have to be today — log whatever the actual date was.
Editing a birth record
Click the birth on the client detail page to edit. Edits update reports immediately.