An independent research project collecting 10,000 parent and caregiver experiences about the decisions families make from birth through a child's first year — hospital care, vaccines, circumcision, and more.
Study 001 just opened. Early responses shape what this study becomes — yours would be one of the first on record.
Study 001 covers the decisions most families face in year one. Every question pairs a structured answer with room for the real story behind it.
Hepatitis B, RSV protection, vitamin K, and antibiotic eye ointment — tracked individually, not lumped in with vaccines.
Eleven vaccines, tracked one by one: timing, parent-reported experience, and what shaped the decision to delay or decline.
Decision, timing, influences, and how parents describe the experience afterward — its own section, not a single checkbox.
Breastfeeding, formula, and infant sleep decisions across the first year.
Daycare, nannies, and how families experienced their pediatric relationships.
For families with more than one child — what changed between baby #1 and baby #2, and why.
Pulled live from every response that opted into anonymous aggregate statistics. This section updates automatically — no one is editing these numbers by hand.
A short, structured questionnaire about your child and the decisions you made — most sections take a few minutes.
Every section has room for what the checkbox can't capture. Stories are optional and always yours to withhold.
You control whether your response stays private, joins anonymous aggregate data, or is shared as a public story.
What did other parents choose, why did they choose it, and how do they feel about that decision now?THE NEWBORN INDEX — CORE QUESTION
The Newborn Index collects self-reported experiences from a self-selected group of respondents. It is not a randomized clinical study, and it isn't medical advice.
Takes about 10 minutes. Every question is optional, and you decide what gets shared.