For women and families
A short check-in, a plan in plain words, and a real person you can reach.
NestWell comes to you through your own OB practice, in the twelve weeks after your baby is born. This page is what it asks of you, what it gives you, and what stays in your hands. It is short, because you are tired.
In development, and offered through your OB practice; not an emergency service. This page describes the program as it is being built.
Week by week
What to expect in the twelve weeks after birth.
Seven short check-ins on your phone, designed to take under ninety seconds, and every one skippable. Between them, nothing asks for your attention unless you asked for it.
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before you go home
You meet your named person.
Your practice enrolls you, usually before you leave the hospital. You see, in plain words, what NestWell does and does not do, who at your practice may see your answers, and the name and number of the person you can call. You can say “not now” to all of it and still keep the contact card and the help button.
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day 3
A check-in about you, not the baby.
Three quick taps: how your recovery is going, how you are feeling, and whether anything is in the way, like a ride to your visit or a prescription you could not fill. If something is in the way, that becomes a person’s job at your practice, with a date by which they will get back to you.
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day 7
A check-in, and a nudge if a visit is on your plan.
If your clinician wanted to see you early, for blood pressure or a wound check, a reminder appears here with what to bring. You can ask for a call back and pick a window that suits you.
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day 14
A short mood questionnaire, on your terms.
It is a standard set of questions your clinician already uses, not a test you pass or fail. Before you answer, the screen tells you who will see the result and lets you change that. If the result suggests you could use support, and you have chosen to share it, it goes to a clinician at your practice, who aims to review it the same business day; your screen tells you by when, and to call if you have not heard.
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day 21
A person has been in touch, or your practice knows they have not.
By three weeks, professional guidance says every new mother should have heard from her care team. NestWell does not tick that box on its own. It counts as done when a real conversation is logged, and shows your practice the names of anyone still waiting.
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week 6
Getting ready for your visit.
What the visit is for, what to bring, and the questions you have saved along the way, grouped so they get asked. If you were referred somewhere, your practice follows up until the appointment is kept, not just booked. The mood questions may be repeated if your clinician set it up that way.
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week 9
Anything still open gets a name next to it.
A check-in on what is unresolved. A summary of your twelve weeks so far is drafted for your clinician to read and sign, so nothing you raised is lost between visits.
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week 12
A plain-language page for what comes next.
Who your primary care contact is, whether a mental-health connection is confirmed, what is still open, and whom to call. Twelve weeks is where this program ends; it is not a claim that you are done needing care.
Always skippable
Every check-in has a Skip button and a “Not now”. Not now moves it once; after that we leave it alone. If you do not open two check-ins in a row, the reminders stop and a person at your practice decides whether to reach out.
There are no streaks, no scores, no badges, and no “you missed a check-in”. You can pause for a week, two weeks, or until you say otherwise, and you can stop the program entirely, in two taps, without giving a reason.
What a check-in never says
It never tells you that you are fine, never grades your answers, and never suggests someone is watching your screen. When you finish, it tells you what your practice will do and by when, or that nobody is scheduled to call, so you know exactly where you stand.
example: “Your answers are saved. Nobody is scheduled to call you about this check-in. Your next visit is on the 14th.”
Dana Reyes, RN
Care coordinator at your OB practice
- practice line
- (614) 555-0142
- coverage hours
- Mon–Fri · 8 am – 5 pm
- after hours
- Call the practice line. The answering service reaches the on-call clinician.
- your note
- Read by a nurse by 5:00 pm today. If you have not heard from us by then, call.
Synthetic example. Your card shows your practice’s real names, hours and numbers.
A named person
Someone at your practice, by name, and what happens after hours.
Not a chat window. A person who works at your OB practice, whose name, number and hours are on your home screen from the start.
Who you can reach
Your practice names a care coordinator or nurse for you. Their name and phone number are on your home screen before you have answered a single question, and they stay there even if you pause or stop everything else. Anything you type in your own words is read by that person or a nurse, not by a program, and the screen tells you by when.
“I need help now”
The button is on every screen. One tap shows the emergency instruction your practice approved, the crisis line, the practice’s after-hours number and your named person, and lets you ask for a call back. It is designed to work before you have agreed to anything, and to stay on every screen.
After hours
Your practice decides who answers and when, and your screen shows those hours honestly. If you ask for help and nobody at the practice has picked it up in the time they set for themselves, your screen says so, plainly, and tells you not to wait for the practice’s reply: call the practice’s after-hours line now, and follow the emergency instruction on your screen.
In an emergency
If you are in danger or having thoughts of harming yourself, call 911 or call or text 988.
NestWell is not an emergency service. Nobody is watching your answers in real time, and the program never says otherwise.
Who sees what
Your answers about how you are feeling go where you say they go.
Your practice sees the practical things: whether you opened a check-in, whether you need a ride, whether a referral was kept. Your mood answers and questionnaire results are different. You decide who sees those, and you can see who has looked.
Four choices, and you can change your mind
Before every mood questionnaire, the screen tells you who will see the result under your current choice and lets you change it. Pick “nobody yet” and your practice sees that you completed the questions and chose not to share, and nothing else: no score, no answers, no item in anyone’s queue. We ask once more at the next questionnaire, and then we stop asking; the choice stays on your home screen if you want it.
- Your OB clinicianThe doctor or midwife who follows your care.
- Your care coordinatorYour named person at the practice.
- A counselorA mental-health partner your practice works with.
- Nobody yetKept for you alone until you decide otherwise.
The one thing that is always shared
The questionnaire includes a question about thoughts of harming yourself. If you answer yes to that question, your care team will be told, even if you chose “nobody yet.” That sentence is shown to you before you answer, every time, and it never changes without your practice’s clinician signing off on the new wording.
What is shared in that case is the fact that the safety question was answered yes. Your other answers stay withheld if you asked for that.
You can see who looked
The program is designed to record every time someone at your practice opens your answers, in a list you can see: who, and when. If you write something in your own words, you are told who will read it and by when, before you type.
After a loss
If your baby has died, the app stops talking about the baby the moment you tell it.
You should not have to explain, and you should not have to find a setting. From the home screen, in two taps, you can say that something has happened to your baby, that your baby is in the NICU, that you want no more messages about the baby, or that your birth was hard and you do not want to be asked about it.
What stops, immediately
- Every mention of the baby: milestones, feeding, sleep, anything cheerful. Gone, not softened.
- Every scheduled check-in and reminder, until you choose to turn them back on.
- Every question in that session. The app asks nothing further; it asks how you want to be contacted, and then it is quiet.
What stays
Your named person, their number, and the help button. A clinician at your practice is told that your status changed, so that a person, not a program, decides how to reach you, and within days, not weeks. Your own care still matters: your recovery, your follow-up visit, and support if you want it are yours regardless of what happened.
Nothing resumes on its own
Check-ins and messages do not restart because a date passed or a coordinator changed. They come back when you turn them on, and you may never want to. You choose how you are contacted, by phone or by message, and by whom.
Languages
English now. Spanish is planned, and the safety text comes before anything else.
NestWell is being built in English. Spanish is planned. The emergency instruction, the after-hours instruction, the help screen, your contact card and the closing messages are translated and approved by a clinician before any check-in is, and a Spanish-speaking woman is not offered the program until every one of those exists in Spanish. If your practice serves other languages, tell us; it shapes what we build next.
safety-critical text in your language: required before enrollment · one of our founders is fluent in Spanish
Expecting, or newly home?
Join the interest list.
NestWell reaches women through their OB practice, so you cannot sign up on your own yet. Leave your name and we will tell you when a practice near you is offering it, and pass your interest on if you name your practice. We will never ask you for health information on this site.
Plain facts
- In development; recruiting pilot practices in Ohio
- Not emergency care, not therapy, and not a substitute for your care team
- Every sentence you see is meant to be approved by a clinician before you see it
- AI explains approved material and drafts summaries for a clinician to review; it never judges your answers
- Nothing on this website is medical advice
- If you are in danger or having thoughts of harming yourself, call 911 or call or text 988.