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Capture Your Baby's First Memories. Plan for Their Future.

Create a beautiful record of your baby's milestones, photos and precious first moments while preparing for the years ahead. Create your will, record guardianship wishes and organise important family documents in one secure Vault. Preserve the memories you'll treasure and make practical plans for the people you love.

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YOUR NEW FAMILY LEGACY VAULT

First Smiles. First Memories. Future Wishes. All Together.

Capture Every Precious Beginning.Prepare for Everything Ahead.

Family Story & Legacy

New Parent Checklist for Baby Memories, Guardianship and Family Security

For new parents searching for a new parent planning checklist, baby memory book alternatives or guardianship planning, this pathway helps organise milestones, wishes, emergency contacts and essential family documents.

Family Story & Legacy

New Parent Planning Checklist

New Parents

Capture baby memories and family stories from the start while organising guardianship wishes, emergency details, important documents and guidance another caregiver would need.

  • Capture First Memories

  • Plan Guardianship Early

  • Keep Emergency Details Ready

Founding Family Offer

Two lifetime vaults.
One lasting family legacy.

Two private Premium Lifetime Vaults for any two family members—independently owned and controlled, with shared Rooms for the stories, memories and important information that belong together as a lasting family legacy.

$197One-Off · No Recurring Subscription
$98.50 per parent during the founding offerFuture Pair Price $599
Story & LegacyStories, voice, video, letters and future messages
Health & CareCare wishes, emergency context and decision-makers
Estate PlanningWills, assets, digital legacy and executor guidance
Unlimited private and shared roomsUnlimited content and requestsFree Vaults for loved onesEstate Planning ChecklistAdvance Care PlanningWrite a Life Story BookVoice, video and uploadsFuture Milestone Scheduling
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WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING OF THEIR STORY

Plan Guardianship & Wills While Saving Your Baby's First Memories

Your storyYour wishesYour essentials

First memories. New routines. A family future in progress.

Early parenthood passes in a blur: first smiles, sleepless nights, appointments and new paperwork. Evaheld keeps your baby's story growing while privately organising healthcare contacts, family plans, important documents and instructions that make a new household easier to manage.

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The story of their beginning

Story & Legacy

Save ordinary newborn moments before they blur together.

From the first cuddle to the first laugh, capture your baby's earliest chapter alongside letters and recordings they can discover as they grow.

200+ guided ways to preserve a lifetime

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Record the day your family changed · Capture the story behind their name · Keep pregnancy and birth reflections if desired

  • Record the day your family changed
  • Capture the story behind their name
  • Keep pregnancy and birth reflections if desired

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Save a tiny voice note about today's milestone · Add first smiles and family photographs · Record favourite lullabies or early sounds

  • Save a tiny voice note about today's milestone
  • Add first smiles and family photographs
  • Record favourite lullabies or early sounds

Legacy letters & future messages

Write a letter for a future birthday · Prepare a message for their first school day · Capture wishes for the person they'll become

  • Write a letter for a future birthday
  • Prepare a message for their first school day
  • Capture wishes for the person they'll become

Values, traditions & remembrance

Record new family traditions as they form · Preserve recipes and cultural celebrations · Document what this new chapter means to you

  • Record new family traditions as they form
  • Preserve recipes and cultural celebrations
  • Document what this new chapter means to you
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Care for a growing household

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Keep the people and care information a new family relies on close.

New parents can organise their own care wishes, family emergency contacts, relevant medical information and trusted support networks without mixing private documents with shared baby memories.

14 ways to prepare care wishes

Advance care planning & directives

Record your own future healthcare wishes · Organise an existing advance care directive · List relevant treatment and recovery priorities

  • Record your own future healthcare wishes
  • Organise an existing advance care directive
  • List relevant treatment and recovery priorities

QR Emergency Access

Choose necessary emergency QR information · Keep up-to-date medication and allergy details · Record emergency contacts for caregivers

  • Choose necessary emergency QR information
  • Keep up-to-date medication and allergy details
  • Record emergency contacts for caregivers

Decision-makers & care team

Identify healthcare decision-makers for adults · List parent and baby care providers separately · Share selected information with a trusted helper

  • Identify healthcare decision-makers for adults
  • List parent and baby care providers separately
  • Share selected information with a trusted helper

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Note preferences for family support at home · Capture cultural and postnatal comfort needs · Update records as routines and health change

  • Note preferences for family support at home
  • Capture cultural and postnatal comfort needs
  • Update records as routines and health change
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Planning for their future

Estate Planning

Prepare family protection without turning it into another project.

Guardianship considerations, insurance, wills, important IDs and household arrangements can be collected gradually, with private access maintained by each Vault owner.

23 ways to organise essential information

Wills, powers & legal documents

Start or update parental wills · Record guardianship paperwork and contacts · Identify executors and relevant advisers

  • Start or update parental wills
  • Record guardianship paperwork and contacts
  • Identify executors and relevant advisers

Money, property, super & insurance

Review insurance provider information · Note savings and superannuation references · Record property and family finance locations

  • Review insurance provider information
  • Note savings and superannuation references
  • Record property and family finance locations

Important documents & everyday life

Store essential birth and identity records · Keep childcare and support contacts organised · Track new recurring family expenses

  • Store essential birth and identity records
  • Keep childcare and support contacts organised
  • Track new recurring family expenses

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Protect digital family account credentials · Record photo archive and online legacy plans · Leave instructions for future practical care

  • Protect digital family account credentials
  • Record photo archive and online legacy plans
  • Leave instructions for future practical care

Start with today's smallest moment.

Add one photograph, one message or one important contact; let the Vault grow as your baby does.

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YOUR FAMILY'S FIRST CHAPTER

Keep the firsts—and organise the important new details.

New parenthood leaves little time for memory books or administrative lists. Evaheld lets you start with one photo or story, then gradually organise contacts, records and wishes that matter to your growing household.

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Capture today's tiny moment

Save the first smile, the story behind your baby's name or a short note about what this week feels like. No polished baby book or spare afternoon needed.

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Bring new-family essentials together

As routines settle, add healthcare contacts, important certificates, family support numbers and the practical information you're forever looking up.

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Tiny firsts become a family story your child can discover

Today's note about a first smile can sit beside tomorrow's bedtime story, milestone photo or letter to your child. As your family grows, you can also update practical records so loved ones have both the memories and the useful details they need.

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THE FIRST YEARS, KEPT CLOSE

Keep the moments that fly by
far too quickly.

Capture firsts, family stories and the little details you never want to forget—then let the people you love add theirs too.

BEGIN WITH ONE FIRST

“What is one moment from these early days you never want to lose?”

A FAMILY STORY, JUST BEGINNING.
THEIR VOICE

The voice you know by heart.

Give them a way to preserve their familiar voice, favourite stories and little pieces of wisdom for those they love.

REAL FAMILIES. REAL EXPERIENCES.

See what changes when everything that matters has a place.

From preserving stories and future messages to documenting care wishes and important information, families share how Evaheld makes it easier to begin, stay connected and leave something meaningful behind.

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Family story

"Your legacy: A gift that lasts forever"

See how families use Evaheld to send meaningful messages, preserve memories and create something their loved ones can return to — and add to — over time.

Partner recognition

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✦Awards & recognition
Winner

University of Sydney Genesis Startup Competition 2022

Recognised for innovation in legacy preservation and advance care planning.
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2024

Most Innovative Memorialisation & Care Planning Business 2024 — Social Impact Startup of the Year 2024
Corporate Vision

Evaheld wins Australian Enterprise Awards 2025

Innovation & Advance Care Planning Company 2025 — Service Excellence 2025
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2025

Most Compassionate Legacy Planning CEO 2025 — Michelle Gomes
Championing Health State Finalist

Telstra Best of Business Awards 2025

Recognised for innovation in healthcare technology and legacy preservation.
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Why should new parents document their early parenting journey whilst still in the exhausting newborn phase?

New parents · Early parenting · Newborn phase
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Documenting during the early parenting phase preserves precious memories that fade shockingly fast, captures the intensity and transformation of becoming parents whilst fresh, provides your children with their origin story and earliest moments, creates emotional processing space during an overwhelming life transition, and establishes documentation practice that continues throughout parenting—though even brief voice memos during this exhausting period create invaluable legacy.
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What specific early parenting content should new parents document?

Pregnancy · Birth story · Newborn
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New parents should document pregnancy experiences and anticipation, labour and birth stories, first moments and impressions meeting baby, early bonding and adjustment, baby's newborn personality and characteristics, the identity transformation into parenthood, relationship changes with partner, challenges and struggles alongside joys, early milestones and development, and the overwhelming love mixed with exhaustion that defines new parenthood.
Read full answer: what specific early parenting content should new parents document?
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Should new parents document the difficult aspects of early parenting honestly?

Honesty · Parenting struggles · Postpartum challenges
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Yes—honest documentation including struggles, exhaustion, postpartum challenges, and parenting difficulties serves crucial purposes: it normalises universal new parent struggles reducing shame and isolation, provides your children realistic understanding that parenting involves challenge alongside joy, models healthy vulnerability and authenticity, helps you process overwhelming emotions, and creates permission for future parents to acknowledge difficulty without guilt—though thoughtful framing focuses on learning rather than dwelling in complaint.
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How can new parents document both partners' experiences equally?

Both parents · Partner perspectives · Equal documentation
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Equal partner documentation requires each parent documenting their distinct perspective independently, recognising that birthing and non-birthing parents experience early parenthood differently, creating space for both parents' voices without defaulting to maternal-only narrative, using collaborative family interviews where both share perspectives, respecting different comfort levels with vulnerability and documentation, and valuing diverse parenting roles equally rather than privileging birthing parent's experience.
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Should new parents document pregnancy loss, infertility, or difficult conception journeys?

Infertility · Pregnancy loss · IVF
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Yes, when comfortable—documenting fertility struggles, pregnancy losses, conception challenges, or complicated paths to parenthood (IVF, surrogacy, adoption) serves important purposes: it honours difficult journeys often hidden in shame, provides context for why children are so precious, normalises experiences affecting many families, helps children understand their family's complete story, and supports future family members who may face similar challenges, though disclosure levels and timing remain entirely parents' choice.
Read full answer: should new parents document pregnancy loss, infertility, or difficult conception journeys?
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What if new parents feel too overwhelmed or depressed to document anything?

Postpartum depression · Mental health · Overwhelm
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It's completely understandable and common—new parent overwhelm, exhaustion, and postpartum mental health challenges legitimately prevent documentation for many, which is why even minimal documentation when possible creates value, professional mental health support should take priority over legacy planning, partners or family can contribute observations when new parents cannot, documentation can happen retrospectively when you're more recovered, and self-compassion matters infinitely more than comprehensive documentation during this intense survival period.
Read full answer: what if new parents feel too overwhelmed or depressed to document anything?
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How does documenting the new parent journey help future generations?

Future generations · Multi-generational wisdom · Cultural impact
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New parent documentation helps future generations by providing realistic expectations about early parenting challenges, normalising postpartum difficulties and relationship stress, transmitting practical wisdom about coping strategies and what helps, offering medical and genetic information about pregnancy and birth, creating understanding of family origins and early dynamics, supporting when children become parents themselves, and contributing to cultural honesty about new parenthood that challenges sanitised narratives whilst honouring both struggle and profound joy.
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Who is Evaheld actually for?

Legacy Planning · Family Vault · Memory Preservation
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Evaheld is for anyone who wants clarity about their legacy — individuals, families, carers, and adult children planning ahead. It suits every life stage, from young adults organising life admin to older Australians recording stories, care directives and estate documents in one secure, private vault.
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Who should use a digital legacy vault and when should i start?

digital legacy vault · when to start legacy planning · legacy planning for families
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Everyone should use a Digital Legacy Vault, regardless of age. The best time to start is now.
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How do i get started and what should i preserve first?

Getting Started · Legacy Planning · Onboarding Guide
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Start with one urgent item — a treasured memory, a health wish, or a key document — and let Charli guide you with small prompts. Evaheld turns the first ten minutes into real progress, then helps you expand gradually into a complete, organised Legacy Vault at your own pace.
Read full answer: how do i get started and what should i preserve first?
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What do i actually get when i use Evaheld?

Digital Memory Book · Health Directive Tools · Estate Document Vault
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You get a secure digital Legacy Vault with three connected pillars: Story and Legacy for memories, Health and Care for advance directives, and Essentials for wills and records. Charli guides each step, QR emergency access links to your live vault, and private Rooms let you share precise items with specific people.
Read full answer: what do i actually get when i use Evaheld?
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How can extended family collaborate on family legacy documentation?

Extended family · Collaboration · Family historians
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Extended family collaboration involves designating family historians or coordinators, organising family gatherings focused on storytelling, conducting interviews across multiple family branches, creating shared digital archives accessible to all family members, dividing documentation responsibilities by branch or theme, combining multiple perspectives on shared events, resolving disagreements about facts or interpretations respectfully, and recognising that collaborative multi-voice family narrative creates richer legacy than single-author approach.
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