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Progress on your preemie's terms

Track growth, feeds & sleeps. Understand real milestones. Support their development.
Preemie Empowered is based on decades of neonatal research & specialist paediatric experience.

The app helps you understand what’s typical for your premature baby right now, this week, at their actual developmental stage.

✓ No ‘corrected age’ mental maths
✓ No worrying alone
✓ Clear, evidence-based insights that cut through the noise
✓ No ‘corrected age’ mental maths
✓ No worrying alone
✓ Clear, evidence-based insights
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Built by a preemie parent in London
Rooted in neonatal science
Newborn baby held gently in adult hands, surrounded by icons representing neonatal care, growth tracking and development.
Preemie Empowered app screen showing adjusted age, weekly developmental guidance, typical milestone ranges, and preterm growth tracking charts.
What to expect next
Week-by-week view tailored to your preemie's true stage
'Is this typical?'
Clear context for what's typical right now
Tiny steps every week
Small, stage-appropriate actions to support progress
Preemie Empowered app screen showing adjusted age, weekly developmental guidance, typical milestone ranges, and preterm growth tracking charts.
What to expect next

Week-by-week view tailored to your preemie's true stage

'Is this typical?'

Clear context for what's typical right now

Tiny steps every week

Small, stage-appropriate actions to support progress

Built for premature babies.
Not just adapted for them.

Mainstream apps quietly assume a full-term timeline, with preterm support bolted on.

Preemie Empowered is built around preemie reality.

Every insight, chart and milestone is tailored to your baby’s real developmental stage.

Less guesswork. Less comparison. More confidence, from day one.

Adjusted age, always

Milestones that respect your baby’s real developmental stage, automatically.

Support the wins that matter, without the noise of full-term timelines.

Preterm growth standards

Track growth against validated preterm standards, not just full-term charts.

Understand your preemie’s weight, height, and head circumference from their day one.

Doctor-ready insights

Spot patterns early by logging growth, feeds, and sleeps.

See timely questions and export clear summaries to share with your clinical team.

See your baby's world through Little Lens™

See your baby's world through
Little Lens™

This is not a filter. It's neonatal science.

Babies born early experience vision differently.

Little Lens distills decades of early vision research into a week-by-week view of your baby’s eyesight, at their real developmental stage.

Calm light, smart play

Know when to dim, when to simplify, and when to add bolder patterns as their vision develops.

Research-backed

Grounded in peer-reviewed studies from Early Human Development and leading vision journals.

Blurred, low-contrast, low-saturation view of hanging toy shapes, representing how a preterm baby sees at an early adjusted age. Baby view
Clear, colourful view of hanging toy shapes, representing how an adult sees the same scene. Adult view

Baby view // Week 6 adjusted // Illustrative

Track their true growth.
Not the gap.

Preterm growth charts, without the guesswork.

Track weight, height and head growth against the right curves adjusted for their real developmental stage, automatically.

Growth trends and tailored insights help you spot changes early and feel more confident between check-ins.

Clinician-standard tracking
Fenton 2025 preterm, WHO from term.

Track your baby's growth in the right context for their prematurity, always.
Beyond percentiles
Percentiles into clear, practical insights.

Understand what’s typical and when to check in with your clinician.

Why we’re building this

I’m building Preemie Empowered because my wife and I need it.

My son was born 6 weeks and 1 day early. Life quickly turned into tracking, mental maths and second-guessing: ‘what’s meant to be normal for my preemie?’ I wanted to build something that answered our questions. Something that put prematurity in the right context. Not a generic baby app with corrected age bolted on.

I’m Ridwan, a preemie dad and a product and growth operator. I lead digital teams for a living and I’m building Preemie Empowered to the same standards I expect from any serious health product: clinically grounded, reassuring, and clear. Something that makes parents feel more confident, not more anxious.

This app is for you. If something feels off or confusing, please message me. I genuinely want your ideas to make the app better for everyone. I’m not just the founder, my wife and I use the app ourselves.

Ridwan

Let's advance neonatal care together

Seeking partnerships to validate outcomes & expand access

  • Clinical trials on tracking outcomes
  • Pilot within NICU discharge pathways
  • Contribute insights & join advisory board

We’re looking to collaborate with partners who care about improving outcomes for preterm babies and their families.

Partnerships

Building with parents // To NHS standards

Building with parents
// To NHS standards

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Sign up to try Preemie Empowered before launch (Spring 2026).
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