NAME IT FIRST

Interactive

The New Baby

Your family changed and nobody asked you.

Nobody asked if it was okay. That does not mean it is not.

This is for:

For the child whose family added a new baby and who needs someone to say: your world changed, nobody asked, and what you feel about that is allowed.

You'll produce:your The New Baby Page

The Name It First Experience

There is a new baby. Everyone says how exciting it is. But you are the one sharing everything now. In The New Baby Page, you choose what happens next — when you act out, when you try to help, when you need someone to notice you are still there. A story for children learning that hard feelings about a big change are allowed.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What do you think the older child is feeling when everyone keeps talking about the baby and nobody seems to notice them?
  2. What would YOU do if you were feeling left out because of a new baby — what would help you feel better?
  3. What is one good thing that could happen because of having a new baby at home — even if it's hard right now?

Research basis

Bowlby attachment theory applied to sibling displacement / Dunn (1995) sibling relationship research on older child adjustment / Winnicott good-enough parenting applied to sharing parental attention / Gottman emotion coaching applied to naming hard feelings with children

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$9.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Hardcoverpersonalize

The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$4.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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