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 separate from both, our own project, on our own time.
What we believe
- Sleep is one of the hardest parts 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.
- A sleep consultant gets you through the hard stretch. Ceddie is what comes after: every day, at 2 a.m., when the nap ran long and you need an answer now. For anything medical, or a problem that needs a real plan, see your pediatrician or a sleep consultant.
Where we're headed
We use Ceddie every day with our own son. Every rough edge in it got found because one of us hit it first.
The families using it shape what comes next: the questions they ask, the moments the schedule got it wrong, the things they wish it did. Ceddie is on iPhone today, and Android is on the list.
If there's something you need from it, tell us. We read everything.
Simple pricing. Ceddie is free to download. Set up your baby, and see the first schedule Ceddie builds — before you decide. Then it's $69.99/year — under $6 a month, with a 7-day free trial — or $9.99 month to month. One subscription covers everyone caring for your baby.