For your unborn child
A message for your baby, sealed before they take their first breath.
Right now, they are possibility. You don't know who they'll become — but you know what you hope for them, what you're afraid of, what you want them to understand about where they came from. Seal those words now. Let them find it when they're ready.
🔒 Seal your first message freeThe things you want them to know
1 in 3 messages on lockets.app is addressed to a child not yet born. It is one of the most common things people do when they first encounter the idea of a sealed message — they think of the person they love most who doesn't exist yet, and they want to say something to them before the world has a chance to change either of them.
There is something uniquely powerful about writing to someone who cannot yet read. You're not performing. You're not managing their feelings. You're just telling the truth — about who you are right now, what this moment feels like, what you hope their life will hold.
When they read it — at 18, at 30, on their wedding day — they'll understand something about where they came from that no family story could have given them.
When to unseal it
Parents who write to their unborn children typically choose one of these unlock moments:
Their 18th birthday
The classic threshold. Old enough to understand, young enough to still be surprised.
Their first day of school
The first time they walk into the world without you.
The day they leave home
When the house goes quiet and the real relationship begins.
Their wedding day
When they start their own family, and finally understand yours.
When they have their first child
The moment the circle completes.
What happens if something happens to you
This is the question most people have but few say out loud. lockets.app has a Guardian system specifically for this. You appoint a trusted person — a partner, a parent, a sibling — who can release your messages if you're no longer here to do it yourself.
Your child will still receive the message you wrote for them before they were born. Your words will find them at the right moment, regardless of what happens between now and then.
Learn about the Guardian system →Related
They'll read it when the time is right.
First 100 words free. No credit card. Sealed until the moment you choose — or whenever your guardian releases it.
Write your message now →