The first record of a child
who cannot yet speak.
Before your baby says a first word, the baby carrier speaks for them.
Blood type, birth details, vaccinations, allergies, parents' numbers. Stuck to the carrier, nappy bag and pram, and read by a phone in one second: at nursery, in the emergency room or at the grandparents' house.
For parents of newborns and infants, the grandparents and helpers who share the care, and the maternity clinics and postnatal centres that send new families home.
Your baby cannot speak, and the arms holding them keep changing
- A newborn cannot tell anyone where it hurts or what they are allergic to.
- The carers change every day: parents, grandparents, a postnatal helper, nursery staff. When something goes wrong, the person beside the baby is often not a parent.
- The emergency room asks gestational age, blood type, vaccinations and formula allergy. The answers sit on a parent's locked phone, or are scattered across birth papers, a vaccination booklet and check-up results in a drawer.
- Nothing can go on a baby's skin, and a note in the nappy bag is easily lost. By night, nobody is sure how many doses of medicine the baby has had today.
A Saturday at Grandmother's
- 11:00
Before a family wedding, Yeji leaves five-month-old Yuna with her grandmother, together with the carrier and the nappy bag. Each carries a RadPatch. That morning Yeji added the formula allergy confirmed at last week's paediatric check to Yuna's record in WaveMed, then entered her PIN and added it to the patch too.
- 15:10
Yuna suddenly develops a high fever and has a seizure. Grandmother calls for an ambulance but cannot remember how early Yuna was born or which formula she reacts to. Yeji's phone is on silent at the ceremony.
- 15:18
The paramedic holds a phone running 𝒱WaveMed to the blue cross on the carrier strap for one second: born at 34 weeks, blood type A+, history of febrile seizures, the formula allergy added that morning, parents' numbers. It reads, and changes nothing. The first number goes unanswered; the second reaches Yuna's father, Jun.
- 15:25
Jun finds Yeji and they leave the hall. In WaveMed he drops a pin on the hospital the paramedic named, and the ride app opens with the destination already filled in.
- 15:40
The hospital receives Yuna already briefed by the paramedics on her premature birth and seizure history, and her parents come straight there. Grandmother never had to remember a single detail.
A record that travels beside the child, readable on anyone's phone
- Wherever the baby goes: a 25 × 25 mm RadPatch goes on the carrier, nappy bag and pram as a sticker, never on the baby's skin. A silicone body with a sealed chip gives two layers of waterproofing, so water and the washing machine are fine.
- One second, no internet: whoever is holding the baby holds a current smartphone to the blue cross, and birth details, blood type, allergies, vaccinations and the parents' and the paediatric clinic's phone numbers appear in the reader's language, in any of 27 languages. No battery, no internet, no login.
- Read-only for responders, changed only by parents: 𝒱WaveMed, for paramedics, emergency responders and fire crews, reads the patch and cannot change anything. The information is encrypted inside the patch, holds only what the parents chose, and only their four-digit PIN can update it.
- Your baby's own record in the free WaveMed app: add your baby as a family member and keep each vaccine as one card with date, dose, type, where it was given, lot number and injection site, exported as a PDF per record. Attach the certificate, file birth papers and check-up results in the baby's document folders, and photograph a rash with the camera, dated.
- At midnight, and when you hand over: a medication schedule with reminders and Completed marks shows how many doses are done; nearby medical centres mark hospitals that run an emergency room; a pin on the map opens the ride app with the hospital filled in. For grandparents or a helper, the baby's record prints as one report or goes as a PDF.
Carrier, nappy bag, pram: the three things that go everywhere your baby goes
From the first vaccination to a midnight fever: the free WaveMed app
Real WaveMed app screens (demo data).
Where it is read
How to roll it out
- Maternity clinics and postnatal centres give a discharge gift: a sticker patch for the carrier or nappy bag, with the centre's name on it if wished.
- Staff learn the registration in twenty minutes. Before going home, parents install the free WaveMed app, enter only what they choose from birth details, blood type, allergies and contacts, write the patch and note the PIN. Three app steps and they are done (Path A).
- Where many families are discharged, staff can write patches in list order with WaveMed Desktop and a reader, using the details each family agreed to include (Path B).
- Reader guides go out to paediatric clinics and nurseries. As the child grows, parents move the patch to the school bag and shoes, and the record continues with the PIN.
Frequently asked questions
Does it go on the baby's skin?
No. It goes on the carrier, pram, bag and clothing, never on the skin. Two layers of waterproofing mean the washing machine is fine, and with no battery there is nothing to charge.
Can Grandmother's or the nursery teacher's phone read it?
Any current smartphone can: most Android phones on 8.0 or newer, and recent iPhones, with no internet needed. With WaveMed or 𝒱WaveMed installed, the screen opens by itself.
My baby's details change every month. How do I keep the patch current?
Read the patch in WaveMed, enter your four-digit PIN and update it. Put on the patch only what should be shown in an emergency, and keep everything else (vaccination cards, certificates, check-up results) in your baby's record in the app.
Get the apps
Expecting, or just home from hospital? Start your baby's own record in the free WaveMed app today, and talk to us about discharge-gift patches for your maternity clinic or postnatal centre.