🆘 Emergency Contacts

3 min read · Updated 2026-05-12

Why keep a contacts list here

When something comes up and you’re not the one at home — a grandparent is babysitting, a friend is doing the school run — whoever is there needs the doctor’s number, the school’s, the dentist’s, fast. Emergency Contacts is your family phonebook: the people you’d want a sitter or a grandparent to be able to reach in a pinch, all in one place.

Opening it

In the sidebar, open The Pod 🌱 → Emergency Contacts. A peek at your key contacts also appears on the Care & Safety page, with a link through to the full list.

Adding a contact

1

Tap Add contact

2

Pick a Category — Doctor, Dentist, Nurse, Teacher, School, or Other (you can type your own)

3

Enter the Name and a Role or relationship (e.g. “Pediatrician at Bayside Clinic”)

4

Add whatever you have — Phone, Email, Address — and any Notes

5

Tap Save

Finding and using a contact

Each contact has a Call and an Email button — on a phone they dial the number or open a new email straight away. There’s a search box (search by name, role, or phone) and a category filter at the top, which come in handy once the list grows.

To change a contact, tap it to open it, edit, and save. To remove it, use the delete option and confirm.

🤝 Keep it where everyone can find it

This is exactly the page to point a babysitter or a visiting grandparent to. Everyone in your pod can see the contacts list; only family members with edit access can change it.

  • Allergies & Medications — the rest of the Care & Safety page
  • The Family Nook — your family’s home base

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