LindaMama — the maternity record a mother owns.
Most maternity care in Kenya is still recorded in a paper MCH booklet the mother carries. The book is well-known, well-trusted, and rarely lost — but it stops at the cover. When she changes clinics, delivers at a different hospital, or the book gets wet, the record is gone. LindaMama is the digital companion to the booklet: she keeps it; every facility she visits can read it and write to it.
One record. The mother carries it. Any facility can update it.
She enrols on her first ANC visit
At any facility — public, private, FBO. The clinic prints a QR sticker into her paper MCH booklet. The digital record is hers.
Each visit gets recorded
The clinician scans the QR. They write the visit (BP, weight, fundal height, urinalysis, danger signs) on paper as they always have, and once on the digital record.
Results land where she is
Lab and ultrasound results from a different facility attach to the record automatically. She doesn't carry envelopes between clinics.
She gets reminders
SMS or WhatsApp, on her own line. Next ANC date, danger-sign checklist, vaccination dates after the baby comes.
The whole maternity journey, in one place she can show.
Antenatal profile + every visit
Booking history, expected date, blood group, HIV / VDRL / Hb status, BP, weight, fundal height, fetal heart rate, urinalysis, immunisations in pregnancy, and the danger signs flagged at each visit.
Lab + ultrasound from any clinic
Tests done at a different facility attach to her record. She turns up at the next visit and the new clinician sees what was already done.
Birth & postnatal
Where she delivered, mode of delivery, baby's birth weight and Apgar, postnatal checks for both.
KEPI immunisations & growth
The full Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunisation schedule with what was given when. WHO 0–5 growth chart points plotted at each well-baby visit.
Visits, danger signs, vaccinations
SMS or WhatsApp reminders for the next ANC date, postnatal visits, and KEPI vaccination dates. Danger-sign messages timed to gestational age.
What to expect, in her language
Stage-aware information she can read on her phone. Swahili and English at launch; more languages added with each county.
Works at facilities that don't run any HMS at all.
The mother brings her phone, or the QR sticker in her booklet. The clinician scans it on any phone or tablet, opens her record in a browser, and writes the visit. No installation, no cost to the facility. If the facility runs Afyaly, the record syncs automatically. If it runs OpenMRS, KenyaEMR, AfyaTab, or paper — same flow.
Hers.
The record belongs to the mother. She decides which facility can read it (a one-tap consent at the visit). She can export the whole thing as a PDF or a FHIR bundle whenever she wants. If she stops using LindaMama, the data goes with her. Facilities can write to her record only while she is in front of them.
Mother-held
The paper booklet stays. The digital record sits alongside it. Both are hers.
Consent per visit
A facility reads or writes only when she shows the QR. No silent background access.
Portable
PDF or FHIR export at any time. No lock-in to LindaMama, Afyaly, or any single facility.
Free for the mother
No subscription. Works on a basic smartphone, or via SMS for feature-phone users.
Mother-held records are the part of maternity care that already works. We're extending it, not replacing it.
The Kenyan MOH MCH booklet has been issued and carried for years. Mothers don't lose it; the published evidence on patient-held maternal records in low-resource settings consistently shows much higher continuity of care and dramatically better immunisation uptake than facility-only records. The gap is what happens when she moves between facilities, and what happens once the booklet is full or damaged. LindaMama covers that gap.
Run a maternity ward? County health office? Want to pilot it?
We are looking for a small number of facilities and counties to shape LindaMama with us before public launch.