Launching Q4 2026
Your pregnancy deadlines, on one dated plan.
Tell us your due date and your city, and we’ll build a personal timeline of the hard deadlines that can’t slip — daycare waitlists, EI paperwork, ESA notice — every task dated, every deadline sourced.
- By Jun 8, 2026 Contact a midwifery practice group
- By Oct 5, 2026 Join child care waitlists in your city
- By Jan 4, 2027 Give your employer written notice
Sample, computed from a sample due date of January 18, 2027
The deadlines start before the due date
You found out you’re pregnant. Between the first appointment and the due date sits a quieter job: paperwork with hard dates attached — and some of those dates arrive before you’ve told anyone at work.
The rules live in a dozen places — an Ontario employment standards guide, a Service Canada portal, a city child care site, a midwifery association page. None of them know your due date, and none of them talk to each other.
Miss one and it costs real things — a midwifery space, a place in a child care line, weeks of leave you could have planned better. It’s not that the information is secret. It’s that nobody has stitched it to your calendar.
31% of Canadian parents of children 0 to 5 who weren’t using child care had a child on a waitlist in 2025 — up from 26% in 2023.
(Statistics Canada, released October 21, 2025)
For parents of babies under one, it’s 56%.
(Statistics Canada, released October 21, 2025)
What you get
Your personal dated deadline plan.
Answer five questions — your due date, your Ontario city or region, your work situation, and whether you’re planning midwife or OB care, and child care. In about a minute, you have a dated timeline of about ten hard-deadline tasks, in the order they hit.
Every task card shows three things: what to do and by when; a one-line why it matters; and the official government page it’s based on — with the date that page was last checked printed right on the card.
Print your plan in one click and pin it to the fridge. That’s the whole product.
Here’s what lands on your plan — dated to you, sourced to the official page.
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Contact a midwifery practice group. The official advice is to call as early in pregnancy as possible, so your midwife has space for you. (ontario.ca — Midwifery in Ontario, updated January 22, 2026)
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Join child care waitlists in your city — your plan dates this from your due date. In Toronto, the city-run TELCCS registry covers city centres, while private and non-profit centres take applications directly. (City of Toronto — TELCCS registration, September 23, 2025)
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Give your employer written notice to start pregnancy or parental leave. Ontario’s Employment Standards Act requires at least 2 weeks’ written notice before your leave begins. (Ontario Ministry of Labour — ESA guide, updated July 8, 2024)
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Apply for EI maternity and parental benefits. Service Canada says apply as soon as possible after you stop working — if you apply more than 4 weeks after your last day of work, you may lose benefits. (canada.ca, as of September 26, 2026)
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Choose standard or extended parental benefits. They pay over different lengths, and you can’t switch between them once a week of parental benefits has been paid. (canada.ca, as of September 26, 2026)
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Register for prenatal classes. Public health programs and private educators each open registration on their own schedule — your plan puts it on your calendar. (city public-health program pages, e.g. Toronto Public Health)
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Register the birth with Ontario’s 5-in-1 newborn bundle — birth registration, birth certificate, SIN, Canada Child Benefit and an RESP referral in one online application, free within the first 12 months. (ontario.ca — Register a birth, updated January 14, 2026)
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Sort the Canada Child Benefit. In Ontario you can usually apply for the CCB at the same time as you register the birth, at the hospital or birthing centre — and a claim can cover a period that started up to 11 months ago. (canada.ca, as of September 26, 2026)
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Start parental leave on time. Under Ontario’s ESA, parental leave must begin no later than 78 weeks after the birth or adoption placement. (Ontario Ministry of Labour — ESA guide, updated July 8, 2024)
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Change your leave plans the right way. A different notice applies to changing your leave end date, returning early, or resigning: 4 weeks’ written notice. (Ontario Ministry of Labour — ESA guide, updated July 8, 2024)
Give your employer written notice
By: January 4, 2027
— sample, computed from a sample due date of January 18, 2027
Why: The ESA requires at least 2 weeks’ written notice before your pregnancy or parental leave begins.
How it works
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Five questions, one plan — due date, city, work situation, and whether you’re planning midwife or OB care, and child care. Nothing else to type.
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Dates computed for you — every task lands on the calendar when it applies to your due date, not on a generic week-by-week feed.
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Sourced, dated, maintained — each task card links the government page it’s based on and shows when that page was last checked. When official rules change, cards get updated.
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City-specific where it counts — Toronto, Ottawa and the rest of Ontario each handle child care waitlists differently. Your plan reflects your city’s rules.
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Print it, pin it — one click to a clean printed checklist for the fridge or your next appointment.
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No account needed — your five answers are all the plan takes, and nothing to install. The email form on this page is just for launch news.
One price. Your whole plan.
CA$29. One time. Your complete dated plan — every task, every official citation, every print-out. No subscription. No upsell.
Pay once, at launch — leaving your email below just tells us you want to know when it’s live.
Questions
Q: Is this medical advice?
— A: No. The plan sequences logistics — which forms, which offices, which dates. For anything medical, talk to your own health care provider.
Q: Does it tell me if I qualify for benefits?
— A: No. The plan doesn’t calculate payments or decide whether you qualify for anything. It tells you what to do, by when, and links the official page where the actual rules live.
Q: Why not just use a checklist app?
— A: Generic pregnancy checklists aren’t built around Ontario’s rules. Your plan is built from the actual government pages — ESA notice periods, EI application timing, Toronto’s city-run child care registry — and every task shows its source and the date it was last checked.
Q: What does it cost?
— A: CA$29, once, at launch. No subscription, no recurring charges.
Q: Which cities does it cover?
— A: It’s built for Ontario parents, starting with Toronto/GTA and Ottawa. Every Ontario parent gets a plan, with city-specific child care details where they exist.
Q: When does it launch?
— A: Q4 2026. Leave your email below and you’ll hear from us the moment it’s live.
Q: What happens to my information?
— A: Your five answers are computed in your browser — your due date and city aren’t sent anywhere. The email you leave on this page is stored only to send launch news, as described under the form.
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