By Nurse Courtney · NICU nurse, IBCLC
The motherhood app that sees you.
You spend the mama years looking after everyone else. This is the one thing that looks after you.
- NICU registered nurse and IBCLC lactation consultant · Registered, and checkable
- 12+ years · In neonatal intensive care, lactation and sleep
- over a thousand parents · Supported through the early months
Every tracker and every safety feature, free forever. No trial to remember to cancel.



Answered in her voice
Ask at 2am. Get a real next step, not a Google spiral.
Every tracker, free
Log what you like. We never charge you for your own data.
Wherever you are right now
Which part are you in?
Start where you are. Everything after it is simply what comes next, and it is all one app.
Her credentials, in public
Four registers carry her name. Look any of them up.
- AHPRARegistered nurseCheck the register→
- IBCLCBoard certified lactation consultantCheck the register→
- APSCAccredited paediatric sleep consultantCheck the register→
- LCANZMember, Lactation Consultants of Australia and New ZealandCheck the register→
Every one of these can be checked by a stranger, in about four minutes. That is the point of them.
The whole way through
Four chapters. One app that stays.
Most of the tracking you have done so far has lived in a different app each time, and none of them remembered you. This one is your whole story, from the first hopeful month to their first birthday.
Trying
Those still trying are still in the mama years
Temperature, mucus, LH read together. A real method, not a guess dressed up as a prediction. When the app is not confident, it says so out loud.
- Cycle tracker, free
- Basal temperature, mucus and LH, read together
- A fertile window with an honest confidence level
- A PCOS card, if that is you
- Ask Courtney, free


Pregnant
Then there are forty weeks
Kicks, contractions, food safety, and a piece in her voice for every single week. The safety alerts work with no signal at all, because the moment you need one is not the moment to be loading a page.
- Kick counter, with the escalation working offline
- Contraction timer, and your 5-1-1
- Food safety: what is risky, and what only sounds it
- A piece in her voice for all 42 weeks
- Their size, length and weight, every week
- Their brain, week by week
Not every pregnancy ends the way it should. Here is what happens then.


Newborn
Then nobody sleeps
Feeds, nappies, sleep and your own recovery, logged one handed in the dark. Nothing animates. Nothing makes you wait. You are holding a baby with the other arm.
- Feeds, sleep and nappies, logged one handed
- The whole day as one timeline
- Your recovery, tracked like it matters
- Safety notes when your logs show something
- A doctor's PDF, when you need to be believed

The first year
And then they grow
Solids, milestones, and what is actually happening inside their brain this week. Patterns you would never spot yourself, every one of them showing its source.
- Their brain this week, and what to do with it
- Solids, without the fear
- Milestones, on the wide normal range
- Growth on the WHO charts
- Patterns across weeks you would never see


The consult
It is 2am. You have a question. She already wrote the answer.
Not a chatbot, and not a forum. Tap one, and read what the app actually says. These are her words, not a sample we wrote for the website.
This is what the app does instead of answering you
Please contact your midwife, GP, obstetrician, or maternity unit now. Don't wait until morning. Don't eat and try again. Don't use a home Doppler.
You are doing exactly the right thing by checking. Now take the next step and get seen.
From Courtney: Please go. I mean it, with all my heart. Go and get checked, and let them reassure you.
Nurse Courtney · NICU nurse, IBCLC · The kick counter's red escalation, locked clinical language, v2.0
Three of the ten most popular pregnancy apps on the Australian app stores will tell you to eat something sweet and wait. Ours tells you to put the phone down and call. Here is the study.
What is actually in it
Everything you were sent home without.
One app, from the first cycle you track to their first birthday. Tap what you need, and get an answer from the person who wrote it.
A nurse in your pocket, at 2am.
Ask a question at any hour and get a clinically routed answer, not a forum and not a guess.
Nurse Courtney
Most of what comes up in pregnancy turns out to be normal. But you don't get to know which 'most' you're in until you ask someone qualified. Your midwife / pregnancy day care / GP wants you to ring. There is no such thing as a silly question in pregnancy.
Their brain, week by week.
The region developing right now, and what it means for the two of you today.
Kicks, contractions, symptoms.
Log once and get something back that means something, including your 5-1-1 when it counts.
For you, mama.
Your body, your mind and your identity. Not only the baby.
271 lessons.
A piece in her voice for all 42 weeks.
Safety, always free.
Every escalation, working with no signal at all.
Never paywalled
Why it is called The Mama Years
The mama years never end. They only get quieter.
I have four. Three boys and a girl. The youngest is still a baby and the eldest is at school, so I am not writing to you from the other side of any of this. I am in it, at both ends of it, tonight.
And I am never getting out. Neither is my mother. Neither, I promise you, is yours. It does not finish when they sleep through, or when they walk, or when they pack a bag and go. Nobody hands you a certificate. You simply get better at it, and one day you notice you have stopped needing somebody at 2am.
Even with all my training, when I became a mama myself, I struggled. Clogged ducts. Mastitis. Nights I did not think would end. And the self doubt, which nobody warns you is the heaviest part.
That is why this app walks with you from trying until their first birthday, and then lets you go. Not because the mama years are over. They are only just starting. But because these are the loudest ones, and they are the ones where the right voice at the right hour changes everything.
Because motherhood isn't meant to be done in isolation. You deserve a village, and I'd love to be part of yours.
Courtney
Before there was an app
A thousand women trusted her before any of this existed.
These are from her consulting practice, not from the app. The app has not launched, so nobody has reviewed it, and we are not going to invent anyone who has.
“Was spiralling with anxiety at 38 weeks. This changed everything. Helped me separate what's a real warning sign from normal third trimester stuff. Finally feel prepared instead of terrified.”
“As a first time mama, Courtney literally saved my breastfeeding journey. From the rockiest start to 17 beautiful months of breastfeeding. I can't thank her enough.”
“I was struggling to put my newborn down to sleep. My baby was only sleeping for 15-20 minutes in the bassinet before. Now she is sleeping for 2-4 hours most of the time. Can't thank you enough.”
“I honestly don't think I could be the confident mum I am today without her. Courtney resolved all of my queries right from the start.”

Who’s behind it
Courtney. NICU nurse. IBCLC.
“I’ll always tell you the truth. And I’ll never make you feel silly for asking.”
Twelve years in neonatal intensive care, and over a thousand families since. She wrote every word of the clinical content herself, against the Australian guidelines. Where the evidence is clear, she gives you the answer plainly. Where it genuinely is not settled yet, she tells you that too, rather than guessing and calling it fact. And you can ask her a question inside the app, at 3am, and get an answer in her voice.
More about Courtney →Why you can trust it
Australia has guidelines for this, and she follows them.
That sounds like the lowest possible bar. It is not. When researchers reviewed ten pregnancy apps on the Australian app stores, all ten got the advice on your baby’s movements wrong or incomplete, and three told mothers to have something sweet and wait. The guideline says the opposite, because waiting is the one thing that costs you.
The Australian guideline is explicit: a woman must not delay being seen by trying to make her baby move with food or drink.
Decreased Fetal Movements: Clinical Practice Guideline (Stillbirth CRE and PSANZ, developed in partnership with RANZCOG), Recommendation 2CResearchers reviewed ten pregnancy apps on the Australian app stores. Three of them told mothers to eat or drink something sweet to encourage their baby to move. All ten carried fetal movement information that was inaccurate or incomplete.
Musgrave et al., 2020. The authors concluded the apps 'should be treated with caution rather than recommended'.Counting to ten movements, and calling if you have not reached ten in two hours, is the Australian threshold. It is not a number we invented, and it is not an American one.
Decreased Fetal Movements: Clinical Practice Guideline, Recommendation 3AAnd if something feels wrong before any timer runs out, you can say so, and she will tell you to go and get checked. Your worry outranks the count. That is in the guideline too.
See all the evidenceWhat it costs
The free half is the part that keeps you safe.
Some apps in this category deliberately make their free tier worse, and charge you to edit a sleep you forgot to log before midnight. We do the opposite. We gate the insights. We never gate the logging, and we never gate your safety.
Free
A$0
Forever. Not a trial.
- Every tracker, in full
- Every safety escalation, working with no signal at all
- Daily logging, forever, with no cap
- A free consult with Courtney
Premium
$20 a month
Or $140 a year, which saves $100 a year, five months free.
- Your patterns, found for you
- The full lesson library
- Unlimited questions, answered in her voice
- Your data, exported for your doctor
Every tracker and every safety feature, free forever. No trial to remember to cancel.
Before you sign up
The questions people ask, honestly.
Free, and premium
Is it really free?
Yes, and not as a trial. Every tracker and every safety feature is free forever: the cycle tracker, the kick counter, contractions, feeds, sleep, nappies, and every escalation, which work with no signal at all. Premium adds the patterns, the full library of 271 lessons, and unlimited questions. There is no trial to remember to cancel, because there is no trial.
Do I have to pay to see my own data?
No, and we think charging for that is the worst thing this category does. Some apps will show you a pattern and then charge you to read it, or charge you to correct a sleep you forgot to log before midnight. You can log whatever you like, forever, at no cost, and export all of it whenever you want.
How much is Premium?
$20 a month, or $140 a year. The same number in every currency, so $20 is A$20, US$20 and £20. You buy it on the website and you cancel it on the website, in two taps, whenever you like. There is no lock-in.
What it actually does
What can I actually track?
Your cycle, your pregnancy and your baby, in one place. Trying: basal temperature, mucus and LH read together, a fertile window with an honest confidence level, and a PCOS card if that is you. Pregnant: kicks, contractions and your 5-1-1, symptoms, your own weight, and your baby's size, length and weight every week. Once they are here: feeds, sleep, nappies, growth on the WHO charts, and milestones on a wide normal range. Every one of those is free.
Does it work without signal?
The safety features do, and that is deliberate. The kick counter and its escalation, and the contraction timer, work with no connection at all. The moment you need one of them is not the moment to be waiting for a page to load.
I am still trying to conceive. Is there anything here for me?
Yes, and it is the same app you will keep. The cycle tracker reads basal temperature, mucus and LH together rather than guessing from your dates, and it tells you how confident it actually is instead of printing a prediction it cannot back. If you get pregnant, nothing is lost and nothing moves. The app simply changes chapter with you.
Does my history come with me from trying, to pregnant, to baby?
Yes. You do not have to change apps every time your life changes, and you do not start again at each step. It is one app from the first cycle you track to their first birthday, and you can export all of it whenever you like.
Can I track more than one child?
Yes, from day one. Every feed, sleep and nappy belongs to a specific child, you can switch between them in a tap, and Premium lets you compare them side by side.
Can I take what I have logged to my doctor or midwife?
Yes. The app builds a doctor-ready summary of the last fortnight out of what you have already logged, arranged by what matters for your stage, so you are not trying to remember six weeks of nights in a ten-minute appointment.
Is Ask Courtney a chatbot?
No. It is Courtney's own written answers, not a bot improvising in her voice. You tap the question you are actually asking and you get what she has already written, with her reasoning. And when the honest answer is to put the phone down and call someone, it says that, instead of keeping you on the screen.
Will it nag me with notifications?
Only the ones you switch on, and you can turn any of them off under Me. The single one that starts on is the kick-counter reminder, because it is safety-adjacent, and you can turn that off too.
Does it work outside Australia?
The guidance is region aware. Food safety is written separately for Australia and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, and the movement guidance names the standard for your own region rather than quoting an American one at an Australian mother.
Your data, and your safety
Is my safety behind the paywall?
Never. If your baby's movements change, the app tells you to contact your maternity unit now, and it tells you not to wait until morning, not to eat something and try again, and not to use a home Doppler. That is the Australian guideline, and researchers found three of the ten most popular pregnancy apps on the Australian app stores get it wrong. Ours works offline, because the moment you need it is not the moment to be loading a page.
Will you sell my data?
No. We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it with third parties for advertising. Analytics autocapture is off, session recording is off, no user id is ever sent to an analytics vendor, and row-level security means the database itself refuses to hand your data to anyone else. In this app a URL is a diagnosis, so even the page address is blurred before anything is sent.
Is it right for me?
Who actually wrote the clinical content?
Courtney Garland, a NICU registered nurse and IBCLC lactation consultant, wrote every word of it herself, against the research, and she puts her name on it. Her registrations are on public registers and you can check every one of them in about four minutes. When the science is genuinely unsettled, the app says so instead of inventing a confident answer.
Does it predict my baby's naps?
No, and it never will. Nap prediction rests on 'wake windows', which returns zero results on PubMed, and the best-known app in that space concedes on its own blog that there is no specific research supporting the intervals. Consistent routines genuinely do improve infant sleep and there are real trials behind that, so we build the half with evidence and decline to sell you the half without it.
Every claim we make about the world carries a source you can open. Here they all are.
Ready to come back to yourself?
Nurse Courtney has already written the answer to the thing you are about to google. Every question the app takes off your plate is a piece of you back.
Every tracker and every safety feature, free forever. No trial to remember to cancel.