Allergies, blood type, emergency contact — kids' essential info in one place

There's a kind of panic only parents recognize. You're in the ER with a feverish kid covered in hives, and the nurse asks: "What is he allergic to?" And you start hesitating. Was it peanuts — or was it just eggs? And which pediatrician do we have? The clinic on Maria Square or the new one we switched to?

Today we're shipping child health info in FamilyBoard. Per child, you can fill in blood type, allergies, current medications, doctor's name and phone, emergency contact — visible to both parents and bonus family if linked. Stop second-guessing.

What it is

In Settings → Family → Child Info, each child now has a dedicated page. There you can fill in:

• Blood type (A+, A−, B+, B−, AB+, AB−, 0+, 0−)
• Allergies (food, medication, other)
• Current medications and dosage
• Doctor's name and phone number
• Emergency contact (grandma, neighbor, anyone you trust if both parents can't be reached)
• Other notes (chronic asthma, glasses prescription, anything like that)

It isn't a patient records system. It isn't bank-grade encrypted medical data. It's what you already know about your child — in a format both homes can see, so nobody has to call around asking "what was it again?".

Why it's needed

The most common school form asks: name, ID, allergies, medications, emergency contact. You fill them in in August and never find them again in February when the school trip is being planned. When it's swim school, summer camp, soccer cup — same questions, again.

The second-most-common situation: somebody else is taking care of the kid. Grandma's babysitting tonight. The bonus mom is picking up from practice. A friend's dad is driving home. They all need to know certain things — not everything, but something. With child health info in FamilyBoard, the right person can see the right thing without you sitting and typing the same SMS every time.

Who sees what

• You and your partner in the family: everything
• The bonus family (if linked): everything — because it's the same kid, and they need to know what you need to know
• Anyone else: nothing. This isn't shared with anybody outside the family or bonus family

We don't show child health info in the regular calendar feed. You have to actively open the page to see it. That's deliberate — this isn't information you get passively exposed to, it's information you seek out when you need it.

Technical under the hood

We added a new table child_health (migration 0054) that's 1:1 with family_members where role = 'child'. It sits under the same Row Level Security policies as the rest of family data — you can read it if you're a member of the family, or a member of a linked bonus family. Otherwise you can't.

Blood type has a CHECK constraint that only allows the eight valid types. Allergies are free text (because a list is never complete). Phone numbers are also free text — we don't want to force a format that doesn't work internationally.

None of these fields are required. You can fill in blood type without allergies, or doctor without emergency contact. We think a partially filled health profile is better than none at all — so we don't block anything.

What it isn't

We have no integration with national health records, no patient journal system, no vaccination data syncing from a regional service. This is deliberately small-scale: a place where parents themselves can write down what they already know, so it's available when needed.

If you want a real health overview, your country probably has one (1177 in Sweden, NHS in the UK, MyChart in the US). FamilyBoard child info is the complement — what you need in the moment, fast, without logging into yet another service.

Try it

Child info is on familyboard.io today (Settings → Family → Child Info). The iOS app gets it in the next release.

We're taking input on what should be included. The fields right now cover what we ourselves used most — but if you're missing something (vaccinations? glasses prescription? IEP details?), write to us. Better to cover the right things than many things.