What are Maternity Badger Notes?
Maternity Badger Notes is an easy-to-use online maternity record that replaces the paper notes you used to carry during pregnancy. It helps you stay informed and involved in your care throughout pregnancy, birth, and after your baby arrives.
Badger Notes lets you:
- See your maternity notes anytime on your phone, tablet or computer
- Keep track of your appointments and receive reminders
- Read the information your midwife shares with you
- Add your own notes, thoughts and birth preferences
- Stay involved in decisions about your care
The Badger Notes App is free to download from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer to see your maternity records.
The information in the app is updated straight away using details your midwife or other healthcare staff add to your records.
BadgerNet can also send you emails, text messages, and app notifications. You need to
These will give you important health updates during your pregnancy. Please make sure you switch this on to enable maternity care notification, enable appointment reminder notification and enable appointment reminder emails.
They may also be used to tell you quickly if there are any urgent changes to services.
The BadgerNet app can be viewed in ten alternative languages.
You can also view BadgerNet from your mobile web browser or the Google App, which will allow you to translate to any of the languages available on Google Translate. This will work on all information that is web-based.
With Badger Notes, you can:
- View information recorded by your midwife or doctor
- See all your upcoming appointments in one place
- Record your birth preferences and feeding plans and share this with your midwife
- Learn about your pregnancy journey through verified online information and leaflets relevant to your pregnancy.
- Add your own comments or reminders to discuss at your next appointment
- Create a weekly diary and add photos to capture your journey. Everything you add to this section is private and only visible to you.
- Share feedback about your care and thoughts on the service.
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All information is held securely and cannot be accessed without appropriate login details (similar to internet banking).
Badger Notes uses the same secure platform used by the health care professionals involved in maternity care.
Your information is protected with a login and password, and only you and the professionals involved in your care can access your records.
Please see Badger Notes - Privacy Notice for a quick rundown of important things you need to know about privacy and your data before consenting to use Badger Notes.
Badger Notes aims to make your care:
- More personal - you can share what matters most to you
- More convenient - no need to carry paper notes
- More connected - everyone caring for you can see the same up-to-date information
Once you’ve downloaded and opened the app, click "create an account". You will need:
- The passphrase given to you by your maternity team
- Your mobile phone to receive your verification text
- Follow the on-screen instructions to set a password (for logging in) and a PIN code (for quick access to your app while it is logged in)
If you had access to Badger Notes in a previous pregnancy, remember to provide the same email to the maternity team as the first time you registered your app. This is to keep your pregnancy records linked. You can update the email from within your app after your registration is complete.
Go to add a care record.
If you use NHS Login to register your account, please remember you will need to continue using the NHS Login; you will get an error message if you later try the Standard Badger Notes login screen.
Don’t want to use a digital record? Please discuss this with your community midwife so they can support you with alternative arrangements.
If you forget your password, there is a ‘forgotten password’ link on the log in page. This needs to be done via the web page. If you are still having access issues and need support, please speak with your community midwife.
Before your first appointment, it is helpful if you enter some information into your record via BadgerNotes:
- Log into BadgerNotes
- Select "My Personal Care Plan"
- Select the link in the Pre-Booking section and enter as much information as you can. This will give the midwife more time to spend with you to answer any questions while at your appointment
- Your midwife will check this information with you at the booking
