About TandemBirth

What TandemBirth is, and who makes it.

Most birth preparation starts with one person's preferences. TandemBirth starts with two people: the one giving birth, and the one showing up for them. That is the whole idea, and it is where the name comes from.

Before: the free Birth Planner

Each of you answers your own questions, privately, on your own phone. What you hope for, what worries you, what helps when things get hard, who does what. Only what you choose to share goes into the plan you use together. No account, and your answers stay on your device.

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After: the Birth Story

When the baby has arrived, or decades later, tell the story of the birth out loud in your own words and get it back as a finished written story to keep, print and pass down. From December 26, each person who was there can tell their own side.

About the Birth Story

The mark

Two hands, two people, one letter.

The B in TandemBirth is drawn from two cradling hands. Each hand forms one bowl of the letter, and each bowl holds a parent and a baby. Two halves that only make the letter together, which is how we think about birth: it belongs to more than one person, and the story of it does too.

The mark began as a pencil sketch and was traced by hand, so the lines are not perfectly even. We kept them that way.

Who makes it

A one-person business in Northern California.

TandemBirth is made by Jeff Novick. He has parented six newborns. He has spent about thirty years running technology for health and mission-driven organizations, including nineteen years inside reproductive health care, and wrote his master's thesis on men's involvement in reproductive health and how it shapes their attitudes toward women. The planner and the Birth Story come out of that work and out of his own family.

There is no sales team and no investors. If you write to info@tandembirth.com, he is the one who answers.

A rose-colored sculpture of a seated pregnant figure with arms raised in a circle above her head and a curled baby cut out at the belly — Photo by Jeff Novick

What we hold ourselves to

Yours, private, and never held hostage.

Private by default

The planner keeps your answers on your own device. A finished Birth Story page is unlisted: only people with its link can open it. We do not sell your information, and we don’t show ads on this site or in the planner.

Your words

The Birth Story uses AI for transcription and drafting, and you approve every word. Your original audio, transcript and drafts are kept so you can always go back.

Nothing held hostage

Your plan exports as a file you keep. Your story exports in full, audio included, at any time.

Not medical advice

TandemBirth is education and keepsake tools. It does not diagnose, treat or replace care from your own licensed providers, and nothing here is a substitute for a conversation with them.