CDC's Milestone Tracker Reviews

As a mother of an infant, and as a family doctor, I like the concept of CDCsMilestoneTracker. However, in doctor language, the sensitivity of CDCsMilestoneTracker is too high and the specificity is too low. If a child is missing any of approximately 10 milestones at each age point, CDCsMilestoneTracker labels them as missing milestones and recurrently urges the parent to bring them in for evaluation. My typically developing infant has been labeled as missing milestones at each age cut off, and I suspect 90% of children would. Fortunately, as a doctor, I’m able to recognize that this is a failing of CDCsMilestoneTracker , rather than a failing of my child, but a mother without as much medical knowledge could be truly alarmed. It would be far more useful if it used a higher cut off for labeling a child as missing milestones, such as if a child missed multiple milestones at one age group, or was missing milestones of a younger age group. As it is, I would not recommend this to parents. The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is that it is interesting to see what approximately your child should be learning at their age, as long as you know enough not worry if they are missing one or two skills.

CDCsMilestoneTracker is really the best resource I’ve seen for tracking your child’s development over time. The only downside to version 2.0 is that all your data from the prior version gets erased. Wish CDCsMilestoneTracker had a way to share child data with other people/devices. The developer could allow data sharing/transfer via airdrop or maybe email in the event they don’t want to store data for users.

I love CDCsMilestoneTracker. Wonderful videos for families to understand each question. I encourage my clients to download and use. However, several families have noted when they enter their child’s date of birth, it incorrectly gives them the month. A child born in September who is currently 8mo is showing 6 months in CDCsMilestoneTracker . She and I both entered info several times to no avail. This has happened with several families.

The best resource for information on milestones and checking them off and knowing when to talk to your pediatrician.

However it’s a very small scope of functionality and I’d only have reason to open CDCsMilestoneTracker about once every month or just before appointments.

I’d love it if it recommendations on amount of time you should spend doing things like tummy time and other activities and have a timer/tracker for that. Then I would use CDCsMilestoneTracker everyday.

This is a wonderfully useful app (particularly since it is free). The milestone checklist with photo / video descriptions and the appointment reminders are awesome. It even allows you to make notes and email / print out the milestones met and your personal notes for the doctor visit. The development and public distribution of CDCsMilestoneTracker is a good use of our tax dollars.

My baby was born in November 2020 but CDCsMilestoneTracker keeps showing as 14 month old baby. I think this is a bug?

~update~

Lol fail. User error. Pregnancy brain still happens post partum apparently

When my kids were under 2, I found CDCsMilestoneTracker quite useful to track their development including the reminder to bring concerns up with the pediatrician.

CDCsMilestoneTracker gives milestones but doesn’t account for the actual windows, your kid may be several months behind but still okay developmentally. They may be different at the beginning of the month than the end of the month. Take everything with a grain of salt... it’s good to acknowledge what your goals are for your child.

I dislike that not meeting an expectation is an instant fail without taking into account other advanced skills or extenuating circumstances. Potentially ambidextrous child? Automatic fail for lacking a dominant hand.

I also dislike that it doesn’t show you the next year up and let you mark off or work towards those goals.

I love CDCsMilestoneTracker- so neat to follow along with baby’s development and get a great example of what each milestone is. I use the email summary to share progress with everyone!

Would be amazing if I could continue to use this past age 5!

They should be more careful about how and when to concern parents. My wife is crying after doing the checklist for our baby when the baby is completely fine

I like CDCsMilestoneTracker, but I wish there was a way to let it know that I have already contacted the dr and have entered early intervention. I feel like it constantly notifies me about my son’s delays. It is stressful enough without the frequent reminders, especially since I have already taken the steps to address it.

This is the perfect app for tracking your child’s milestones.

When you try to turn off notifications, CDCsMilestoneTracker crashes and it’s not letting you turn them off.

Why is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the governing voice for our children and not the American Academy of Pediatrics? And why is the CDC revising the developmental milestones of children to fit the mask wearing agenda and vaccine control of big pharma? Parents, wake up and pay attention!

Awesome app and easy to track my child’s development!

Using sex and gender appropriately would help dissociate the two for parents and healthcare providers still living in the Stone Age.

The videos for the 6 month milestones have been removed. Not very helpful.

Great and reputable source for milestones. Glad they made an app!

I recommend CDCsMilestoneTracker for all my families. It’s great there are video examples of milestones

Great concept but not good for preemies as there is no option to enter an adjusted age so that milestones are appropriate for your child.

Excellent tool to learn about and track developmental milestones.

Great app for parents to track and share their child's developmental progress with their child's doctor.

My son was born August 28, 2018 I downloaded CDCsMilestoneTracker when he turned a month old and put his birth date in and it’s saying he is 2 months old.

CDCsMilestoneTracker has a glitch that won’t allow me to input the child’s age. It will only let me input January 1, 2020.