THE PROBLEM
Growing a Human is Hard.
It reshapes everything: your body, your identity, your relationships, your sense of what you know and don't know. It deserves more than a search bar and a TikTok algorithm. You open a tab to look something up. Forty minutes later you've read about three worst-case scenarios that probably don't apply to you, and you still don't have a straight answer.
That's not a you problem. The internet is built to keep you scrolling, and fear keeps you scrolling longer than anything else. Your OB has 11 minutes, and most of them are spent asking "any questions?" instead of telling you what you need to know. The apps have infinite content with no structure. All the answers exist. They're just buried under a thousand search results and no one's told you which ones actually matter.
"I just need the TLDR. I can't keep looking up and going through 1,000 different websites to search for things."
— Ghaida, first-time mom
"Appointments are infrequent and there is a need for a trustworthy place to turn to between visits."
— Jen, first-time mom
"The algorithm rewards clicks... and that's a thing that you do when you are afraid."
— Emily Oster, Author of Expecting Better
YOUR WEEKLY ROADMAP
A curriculum. Not a content library.
Each module has a beginning and an end. You open it, work through it, and finish knowing you've covered your bases for the week.
01.
Things to Know
What's happening with your body and your baby this week. Evidence-backed, written in plain language, with the context to understand why each change matters. Read it once and feel confident you haven't missed anything.
02.
Things to Do
Appointments to book, things to buy, decisions to make, prep to start. Organized by week so you're always working on the right thing at the right time. Nothing slips through the cracks.
03.
Things to Talk About
The questions to bring to your OB. The conversations worth having with your partner. The things to discuss with your support system before you need them. You'll never leave an appointment wishing you'd remembered to ask.
Built to feel complete.
Your Weekly Reading List
The best pregnancy content already exists: books, research, podcasts by people who've spent careers on this. The problem is knowing which piece to read when. Each Sage module includes a short reading list for the week: the specific chapter, article, or episode worth your time right now, vetted and sequenced so you're learning from the best sources without having to find them yourself.
Put Your Phone Down.
Each module closes with a moment to step back. A few minutes to breathe, come back to the present, and register that you've covered what matters. Put your phone down. Be here.
Perspective, Not Panic
Not everything you read online deserves the same level of attention. Sage helps you tell the difference between what's routine, what's worth watching, and what's worth a call to your provider, so you're not treating every new symptom like an emergency.
Deep Dives
Buying guides. Appointment prep sheets. Question templates for your provider. Research summaries for the decisions that deserve the full picture. Every Deep Dive is linked directly from the relevant item on your checklist, so you can go as deep as you want on the things that matter to you and skip the rest.
You just got a positive test and your first instinct was to open seventeen tabs. You closed them all feeling worse than before.
You've Googled "is [symptom] normal at [X] weeks" at 1am and scrolled past six forum posts before finding an answer you half-trusted.
You've sat in an OB appointment, been asked "any questions?" and gone completely blank, only to remember everything you wanted to ask the moment you got to the parking lot.
You've been served a TikTok about something that could go wrong and spent the next two hours trying to figure out if it applies to you. It didn't. But you couldn't stop until you were sure.
You bought the pregnancy book everyone recommended. Half of it covers things that won't matter for months, and you already know you won't remember any of it by then.
Sage is for you if...
Every mom I talked to described the same problem. None of the apps solved it. So I built the guide we wish we'd had.
Alexandra Chabaneix, Founder of Sage
THE ORIGIN STORY
Built by a mom
who's been there.
When I got pregnant in January 2024, I did what any type-A, research-driven person would do: I tried to understand everything. But instead of feeling prepared, I found myself drowning. Every search opened three more questions. Every app gave me a weekly blurb and called it guidance. My OB had 11 minutes. I had the rest of my waking hours and nowhere good to put them.
I realized the problem wasn't a lack of information. It was the absence of a system. Something that told me what mattered this week, what could wait, and when I had actually covered my bases. So I built it myself.
After my pregnancy, I took that system to Brown University's Technology Leadership program as my Critical Challenge Project. I spent the next ten months researching: interviewing expecting parents, OBs, midwives, and leading experts, including Emily Oster. I vetted the sources, structured the curriculum, and pressure-tested every design decision against what parents actually needed.
I'm not a clinician. I'm the parent who did the work of finding the right ones for you, and organized everything they know into one clear path.
Free access to Sage for life, no strings attached.
A friends and family discount code to share once Sage launches publicly.
Direct input on content, features, and product direction as we build.
Early access to every new module before anyone else sees it.
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