Plan pregnancy and the first year in Excel: baby budget, registry, childcare, leave and income gap, insurance and paperwork deadlines, hospital bag checklists.
Expecting parents in the United States: employees (FMLA check), self-employed or not working (you type your own amounts), married, unmarried partners or single parent. No Excel skills needed: mint cells are yours, everything else is calculated.
One file to get ready for your baby without forgetting anything: deadlines dated from your own due date, purchases and your registry, your leave and an estimate of your income during leave, childcare compared, and a month-by-month budget up to your baby's first birthday, with FMLA, state paid leave and health insurance deadlines.
The New Baby Planner (US) is an Excel workbook in dollars, with no macros, for Excel 2016 or later. It comes with a sample file filled in by a fictitious couple (Maya and Jordan, first baby) so you can see every calculation before you type your own dates.
The deadlines from your due date (employer plan or Marketplace enrollment for the baby, FMLA bonding leave, pump breaks…), your leave week by week and the income gap of unpaid weeks, the FMLA eligibility check ('you may be eligible: confirm with HR'), childcare costs compared with the dependent care FSA set-aside shown as information, what's left to buy, and what the baby changes in your budget, month by month. In the sample, 6 unpaid FMLA weeks make a $6,900 income gap: a calculation on fictitious data, not a promise.
Built in Excel with functions that Google Sheets also supports (no macros, no XLOOKUP, LET, LAMBDA or dynamic arrays). If you import it into Google Sheets, check charts, colors and drop-down lists after import. Tested with Excel, no macros: recalculated with 0 formula errors, on the sample and on an empty workbook, and checked against an independent calculation of the sample.
Fictitious sample data. Written with AI assistance. Not legal, tax or financial advice, and not medical advice: for your health and your baby's, follow your doctor or midwife; for your rights, your employer's HR team, your plan and the official sites (dol.gov, healthcare.gov, irs.gov) have the final word.
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