Companion
The New Parent Journal
The First Year, Documented
You'll forget more of it than you think. This is where it stays.
For the New parents in their child's first year — those navigating the simultaneous wonder and overwhelm of new parenthood who want to document the year they will not remember as clearly as they want to.
The Name It First Experience
The first year is the one parents most want to remember and the one they remember least clearly. The exhaustion does something to the memory. The days blur. The milestones arrive and pass and you meant to write them down. This journal gives the year a structure: weekly entries that document who your child is becoming, space to capture what surprised you about parenthood, questions that go beyond "when did they first smile" to what you're feeling about becoming the people who are raising someone. For both parents, or for the one doing most of the writing. At the end of the first year, you'll have The New Parent Journal.
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
- What do you want your child to know someday about who you were in this first year?
- What has surprised you most about becoming a parent — something you couldn't have predicted?
- What do you most want to remember from this early season with your child?
- What do you need more of right now — and how are you getting it?
Research basis
Stern maternal identity transition research / Winnicott good enough parent framework / postpartum identity research / journaling as reflective parenting practice
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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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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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.
$5.99
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.
Partner Pair
Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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