About
About Ceddie
The 3 a.m. problem
Every parent knows the moment. It's the middle of the night, the baby is awake, and the schedule you were following so carefully has unmistakably failed. You scroll your phone for ideas. You count back hours. You wonder if the contact nap on the couch was the mistake, or the missed wind-down, or the bedtime that was either too early or too late.
We kept finding ourselves there. The schedule apps didn't help — they handed us a plan in the morning and then stopped seeing the day as it actually unfolded. Wake windows aren't fixed. Naps don't behave. A real baby's day is a moving target, and a plan that can't move with it isn't really a plan.
Who we are
Ceddie is built by Frank and Amanda — partners and parents of Cedric, a small boy whose sleep gave us a challenge we couldn't shake. Frank's behind the app: the idea, the building, the planning, the work of turning it into something real. Amanda is the sounding board for all of it, and shapes how we talk to the families who use Ceddie. We're a two-person team for now, and we like it that way.
The three of us live in Colorado, where most of our free time gets spent outside.
Frank's day job is in technology consulting; Amanda is a communications specialist at a large bank. Ceddie is built during little scraps of personal time.
What we believe
- Sleep is one of the hardest aspects of parenting a newborn.
- Every baby is different. The schedule should adapt to the baby, not the other way around.
- Technology should help parents and their infant, not get in the way.
- Sleep advice belongs with your pediatrician or sleep consultant. Ceddie helps with the scheduling — not the medicine.
What's next
Ceddie is in open beta — free to try while we build toward the App Store. We're listening closely to the families using it and shaping what comes next around what we hear.