Births

A birth is a recorded birth event for one of your patients. Every birth belongs to a patient, and each birth can carry one or more babies. There are two ways to capture one:

• the Births log’s drawer — fast, for the fields most practices track; and
• the full Record a birth course-of-care form — every registry field, section by section, with a lockable lifecycle.

This page covers the drawer. Reach for the course-of-care form when you are entering a complete registry record; see when to use which below.

The Births log

Open Births from the sidebar to see your practice’s births. Two actions sit above the list:

• New birth — the primary action. Opens the birth drawer for an existing patient.
• Add patient + birth — the same drawer, but it creates the patient inline as part of the same save, so you don’t have to add the patient first.

Both are available to roles that can manage records; a read-only Viewer sees the log but not the create actions.

Record a birth from the drawer

Choose New birth. A drawer slides in from the right. Fill in what you track:

• Patient — search by exact name and pick the mother’s record. (In Add patient + birth mode, you fill First name and Last name instead, and the patient is created on save.)
• Attending provider — or leave it Unassigned.
• Date & time of the birth.
• Status.
• Expected due date — the pregnant-roster’s “who is due when” datum, independent of the birth date.
• Labor timeline (optional) — Labor onset, Full dilation and Placenta delivered as real date-times. The birth time itself is the Date & time field above.
• Site — where the birth took place.
• Delivery mode — or Not recorded.
• Antepartum transfer — leave it on None — cared for through delivery unless the pregnancy left your care before delivery; setting it is what puts the pregnancy on the Transfers list.
• Interventions, Complications, Outcome — free-text notes.
• Babies — see Multiples.

Choose Save. You can reopen the birth later and choose Edit to correct it.

Multiples

For twins or higher-order multiples, add each baby to the same birth rather than creating separate births. In the Babies section of the drawer, choose Add baby for each child — each gets its own Name, Sex and clinical fields. Keeping every baby on one birth event keeps the event accurate and your counts correct.

The completion gate

A birth’s Status can move to completed only once the record carries the fields a completed birth requires. If any are missing, the save is refused and the drawer tells you which one — in the same words the app uses:

• Attending provider — “Select the attending provider before completing this birth.”
• Date & time — “Enter the birth date & time before completing this birth.”
• Delivery mode — “Record the delivery mode before completing this birth.”
• At least one baby, with its sex — “Add at least one baby, with its sex, before completing this birth.”

A draft that isn’t complete yet saves fine — the gate applies only to completing the record.

The “Review them” banner

Records that were completed before this rule was in force can be missing a now-required field. They still count toward your birth totals, so rather than drop them (which would quietly change every rate), the Births log surfaces them in an amber banner with a count and a Review them button that jumps straight to the list of exactly those records.

Birth numbers

When you open an existing birth to edit it, the drawer shows two identifiers:

• Practice Birth # — the record’s number within your practice.
• Attendant Birth # — its number for the attending provider.

They are assigned by the app; you don’t enter them.

Which surface to use

Use the drawer (this page)	Use the course-of-care form
The common fields your practice tracks day to day	A complete registry record, every section
A quick add from the Births log	A prospective course of care with a lockable lifecycle
Field is labelled Site; babies are Babies	Field is Intended place / Actual place; babies are Newborn(s)

The two surfaces write the same underlying birth record — the course-of-care form simply exposes every field and the Draft → Enrolled → Complete → Locked lifecycle.

Next steps

• Record a birth — the full course-of-care form.
• Records & amendments — the record lifecycle, corrections and revision history.
• See your practice analytics.