Built by a physician dad, for his daughter

When our daughter Usha was born, our care conversations lived in a dozen places at once. A text to the other parent about the last feed. A note to the grandparents about a dose of vitamin D. A photo of the pediatrician's handout somewhere in a camera roll. Everyone who loved her was trying to help, and none of us could see the same picture at the same time.

I'm board-certified in sleep medicine and pulmonology, and I've spent my career helping people rest and breathe. But standing in our kitchen at two in the morning, holding a baby and a phone with three half-finished message threads, I didn't feel like a doctor. I felt like every other exhausted new parent — sure I was forgetting something, and unable to prove I wasn't.

So I built Usha Care Guide. One private place where a feed, a medicine, a milestone, or a well-visit is logged once and seen by everyone who cares for the baby — the other parent, the grandparents, a nanny, a night nurse. No one double-doses. No one has to ask when the last feed was. The scattered threads become a single, calm, shared record.

It started as pregnancy tracking, week by week, and it keeps going through the first years. It's free, it runs in any browser, and it asks for nothing but an email — because the last thing a new parent needs is one more password.

On the writing here

Alongside the app, I write practical guides for parents — on newborn sleep, feeding, and the questions worth asking at each well-child visit. I write them the way I'd explain things to a friend, but I hold them to a clinical standard: every recommendation is grounded in primary sources — the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) — and cited so you can check the source yourself.

Thank you for trusting a small tool built by one family, for yours.

— Rajesh