This update makes True Joy Birthing more reliable and easier to use, with a better birth plan experience, smoother onboarding, and direct invites for your care team. • Email verification now required for new accounts • Invite your doula or midwife directly from My Team • Birth plan rebuilt with guided 5-section model and video walkthroughs • Smoother onboarding with success animation and real progress tracking • Annual plan is now the default subscription option • Fixed onboarding data not persisting after logout • Fixed labor notification delivery, appointment crash, and dashboard counts • Fixed pregnancy weeks+days display • Security improvements: rate limiting, contract ownership, role validation • Removed legacy platform dependencies for a leaner app

Thanks for being part of True Joy Birthing! This update brings some big improvements to make your experience smoother, safer, and more reliable. New in this version: • Email verification — We've added email verification at sign-up for extra account security • Invite your provider — You can now invite your doula or midwife to join True Joy Birthing right from the app • Improved password reset — Resetting your password is now more secure and reliable Improvements: • Smoother navigation throughout the app, including better deep linking • More reliable app sessions — fewer unexpected logouts and glitches • Your feed is now better tailored to you Bug fixes: • Fixed an issue that could cause the appointments screen to crash • Fixed labor notification delivery so you never miss an important alert • Fixed incorrect pregnancy "weeks + days" display • Fixed dashboard counts for providers • Fixed several password reset edge cases • General stability and performance improvements We love hearing from you! Reach out anytime at support@truejoybirthing.com.

What's new in v1.2.1: Branded birth plan PDF export with True Joy Birthing logo, fonts, and colors Research feed with articles on the mom dashboard Fixed contraction timer to show hours correctly for long labors (h:mm:ss) Fixed birth plan completion percentage rounding Fixed password manager autofill on login Fixed splash screen flash on app launch Restored lavender app icon Stability improvements and bug fixes

Baby Development Feature (New) - Weekly baby development cards on the Mom dashboard and weekly tips screens, showing size comparisons and growth milestones for every week of pregnancy (weeks 4–40) - Graceful fallback to icon placeholder if illustration unavailable - Alt text accessibility labels on all images Onboarding Overhaul - Subscription/trial step added to provider onboarding — doulas and midwives now route through plans & pricing before the tutorial, with a "Skip for now" option - Back buttons added to doula and midwife onboarding screens - Tutorial persistence fixed — onboarding completion is now saved to the backend via API, so completing onboarding actually sticks across sessions (no more getting sent back to onboarding after re-login) - Competing root guard fixed — users now consistently land on the intro walkthrough instead of being dumped into role-specific onboarding - Removed stale (auth)/tutorial.tsx that conflicted with the canonical root tutorial - Smart quote and NaN validation fixes in zip code lookup and years-in-practice fields - Removed diagnostic stack traces shown to users in production Messaging Bug Fixes - WebSocket auth overhauled — replaced broken JWT decode with proper session token lookup - Multiple concurrent WebSocket connections now supported per user - Duplicate messages eliminated (dedup by message_id when both WebSocket and HTTP deliver) Marketplace Improvements - Request Consult button fix — removed nested touchable conflict - Case-insensitive zip code search - Loading state with spinner while fetching providers - Team status (share/consultation requests) now loads in background without wiping the provider list on failure