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Milestone Sundays: birth to age 3, one Sunday at a time.
Personalized Sunday morning reminders from birth to your child's third birthday — weekly for the first two years, every other Sunday in the third. Milestones, things to watch for, vaccine reminders and a bit of encouragement, delivered into your own calendar rather than your inbox.
What's in it
You enter your baby's first name and date of birth once. The calendar is built around that date, so week 14 arrives in week 14 — not whenever a generic list says so.
Birth to age 3
Weekly for the first two years, every other week in the third. What most children are doing around then, written as a window and never as a deadline.
vaccine reminders
The publicly funded schedule, flagged a week ahead so the appointment does not sneak up on you.
Things to watch for
The handful of things worth raising with your doctor at each stage, in plain language.
Encouragement
An honest morale boost for the weeks that are hard, and a little something for the other parent too.
How to get it
- Subscribe to the newsletter. It is free, and Milestone Sundays is our gift to subscribers.
- Open the calendar builder. It is at babywellness.ca/milestone-sundays, and there is no code to enter.
- Enter your baby's name and birthday. The builder picks the right year for your child's age and produces a calendar file — one tap on an iPhone, an import on Google Calendar or Outlook.
- Keep going, free. The last event of each year carries a link that builds the next one, so years 2 and 3 are free too.
Milestone Sundays is free for newsletter subscribers. Open the builder any time.
The honest bit
Milestone Sundays is an educational gift, not medical advice. Every developmental milestone in it is a general window, not a deadline, and babies vary enormously inside those windows. If something in the calendar has not happened yet, that is usually normal — and your family doctor, pediatrician or nurse practitioner is the right person to ask about anything that worries you. The content is informed by Caring for Kids (Canadian Paediatric Society) and the Nipissing District Developmental Screen.
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