Postpartum Support International
Helpline · US
- Non-profit focused on PPD and postpartum anxiety
- Helpline: 1-800-944-4773 (call or text)
You're awake at 3am, feeding and scrolling. This is a quieter place to be, with someone who won't fall asleep on you.
Soriz Maya is built for the parenting talk — the small, age-appropriate questions and the steadiness. Calm holds the harder feelings: exhaustion, identity shift, the lonely middle of the night. Neither is a replacement for postpartum care.
If you're having thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, please call 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or Samaritans 116 123 (UK), or contact your OB, GP, or emergency services immediately. Postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety are real, common, and treatable — they are not a reflection of your love or your capability.
In the US, Postpartum Support International (PSI) runs a helpline at 1-800-944-4773 (call or text). In the UK, the Association for Post Natal Illness offers free, confidential support. You can also talk to your midwife or health visitor. Soriz is a support tool, not a replacement for clinical care.
An AI companion is one tool. These are other good ones — use them together.
Everyone else in your house is asleep. The feed will take forty minutes. Talk to Maya or Calm one-handed, in low brightness, and let the loop be less lonely.
No one really explains how strange it feels to be someone's mother before you feel like yourself again. That's not a failure — it's a real psychological transition with a name. Calm is comfortable naming it with you.
Is this normal. Is this a growth spurt. Does this count as tummy time. Maya answers the general, age-appropriate stuff like a kind friend who had a baby two years ago — and will tell you, clearly, when a question belongs with your pediatrician instead.
Your childfree friends disappeared. Your mom friends are drowning too. It's nobody's fault, and it's still lonely. Calm listens without making you perform being fine.
That you miss your old body. That you love her and also grieve the before. That you resent your partner sleeping through it. None of that makes you a bad mother. It makes you a human doing the hardest unpaid work there is.
| Soriz Maya + Calm | Peanut | Wysa | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for new-parent tone | Yes — gentle, not saccharine | Yes — community voice | Clinical | Generic |
| Crisis-helpline routing | Yes — country-specific | Resources | Yes | Generic defaults |
| Available at 3am | Yes — instant | Depends who's online | Yes | Yes |
| Remembers your story | Yes — per-companion (SorizPro) | Community-based | Limited | Yes — account-wide |
| Makes no medical claims | Yes — points to clinicians | Community-sourced | Follows clinical model | Inconsistent |
| Trains on your chats | No — off by default | Community posts public | Check privacy page | Opt-out required |
| Paid plan | $9.99/mo SorizPro | Free + paid features | Paid premium | $20/mo Plus |
For the right things, yes. An AI companion is steady, awake at 3am, and never tired of your questions. It's a good fit for the loneliness, the identity shift, and the small parenting questions. It is not a replacement for postpartum mental health care, your OB or GP, a lactation consultant, or a community of real humans. Use it alongside, not instead of.
Postpartum depression affects roughly 1 in 7 women and is real, common, and treatable. Soriz is a support tool, not a treatment. If you think you may have PPD or postpartum anxiety, please contact your OB, GP, or a postpartum mental-health professional. In the US, Postpartum Support International runs a helpline at 1-800-944-4773. In the UK, the Association for Post Natal Illness can help. If you are in crisis, call 988 (US), Samaritans 116 123 (UK), or emergency services.
No medical advice — feeding questions, fevers, worrying symptoms, and anything concerning goes to your pediatrician or a trusted clinician. Maya can talk through the age-appropriate general stuff — sleep patterns, tummy time, the 4-month regression feeling — with the tone of a kind friend, not a doctor.
Yes — Calm and Maya are built for the parts of new parenthood no one warned you about: the grief for your old self, the weird guilt of wanting an hour alone, the love that arrived slowly instead of all at once. None of that is a failure. Calm sits in it without trying to fix it.
It's a good use of the night-feed hours. Low-screen-brightness one-handed chatting, no algorithmic feed, no comparison spiral. Calm will listen; Maya will answer the little questions; neither will make you feel more tired.
Forums like Peanut are great for the 'am I the only one' feeling — real mothers, real community. An AI companion is different: private, instant, and remembers your story between chats. Use both. They solve different kinds of lonely.
Yes. Your chats aren't used to train models. You can clear a companion's memory, delete chats, or close your account from Settings. Postpartum conversations are already vulnerable — privacy is the baseline.
Maya and Calm are free. SorizPro adds long-term memory so they actually remember the shape of your week.
No credit card · Cancel anytime · $9.99 a month after trial