WellStart is the essential development guide and digital baby journal for modern parents. It’s a unique software application for your PC or Mac that:
* makes it quick and easy to keep yourself updated about what to look out for next in your baby’s development, from pregnancy to 5 years
* reminds you to record all their achievements and precious moments, so you can easily keep your pregnancy/baby journal up to date
* makes it simple to store and organise all your notes, photos and videos to create a wonderful keepsake of your child’s early life
You can start using WellStart at any time, from before conception, during pregnancy, or with your baby or toddler. You can add as many children as you like, and easily work backwards to create keepsake records for older children. Of course, you can also continue recording their growth, achievements and precious memories far beyond 5 years of age.
WellStart pregnancy and baby software is the brainchild of experienced GPs Dr Heidi Worthington and Dr Soraya Bate, and of Dr Philip Worthington (who is doctor of Computer Science rather than a proper doctor!)
The original concept came about through asking the question "How do parents know what's 'normal' for their child's development?"
In today's driven, competitive society it's easy to develop unrealistic expectations of how quickly your baby should develop. You may be worried that your child may be falling behind in some way.
Parenthood shouldn't be so worrying!
Famously, the parents of one of the most intelligent scientists of all time, Albert Einstein, were extremely concerned about his development because he was very late learning to walk, and only started to talk after the age of 3!
However, short of ploughing through stacks of parenting books and trawling countless websites, there's no convenient way to find out what skills and behaviours your child should be developing and when they should be developing them.
Even if you can find this information, and have the time to keep reading the books and visiting the websites regularly, there's no single place where you can record when your child reached these development milestones AND your thoughts, feelings photos and video...until now!
WellStart replaces all those expensive pregnancy and parenting books and keepsake albums with a single, easy-to-use software application that:
* lets you know what you need to know, when you need to know it
* builds up into a fantastic keepsake of your child's development and achievements
Why isn't WellStart a website or app?
WellStart made a decision to build a software application rather than a website or app because:
* it enables WellStart to provide much more targeted information that's relevant to your child and adapts to their pace of growth and development
* it means you don't have to be concerned about where your child's development records are stored or how secure they are
* you don't have to worry about the website changing its terms, or shutting down and taking your child's precious development records with it!
* you don't have to be online to get at your child's records or receive reminders
* you don't have to remember to visit the website regularly, or set it as your homepage, or agree to receive regular email newsletters - you just use WellStart as often as you like, and it's always there and ready to go
