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by Goodbyelizajane

If I can get my Home Pod to start a timer, why can’t it start this timer? You’d think it would be a no-brainer to create a hands-free breastfeeding timer, but I’m guessing these things aren’t created by people who have actually nursed a baby. Particularly for those of us whose babies have poor latches, we need both hands to sort the kid, not faff about pushing buttons. Even with an Apple Watch, you still have to get your wrist in the right position and have a free hand to press go. So much for technology improving everyday life. It’s far easier to just watch the clock on the wall.

Otherwise, the app is fair-to/middling. There is no way to input the amount of milk the baby is taking at the breast, for those who are weighing. The sleep function is pretty rudimentary; if you start the clock on one device you won’t know it on the other. My husband and I can’t coordinate very well as a result. The separate sleep timer isn’t much better, and why would you want to open a separate app for sleep anyway? The main benefit of this app is that you can choose what to track and eliminate the rest from your screen. The log filter is also helpful. All data can be entered or amended later, in case you don’t log something immediately, which is a plus.

The analytics are really the only thing that make this better than a clock and a notebook. The machine saves time by doing the math for you. Otherwise it seems more like a toy than a tool.

by Lilbit Granola

I’ve been using this ever since my 3rd baby was born. I thought I would just use it for the first month or two but she’s 3 months now and it’s still useful. At first I relied on the notifications because she was jaundiced and I needed to wake her for feedings. Now I’m still relying on it, mostly to remind me which side we’re on (really important when she just nurses on one side most feedings). I love that it’s easy to customize how long between feedings, what type of notification you want, which side you want it to prompt you for, night-mode, etc. The big buttons are perfect for nursing with full hands. You can also track diapers, sleep, pumping, other feedings and growth. The only one I tried to use was growth but I couldn’t figure out how to see what I input previously, and the charts were pretty useless as they rounded up or down too much to give an accurate picture. To me that’s a minor point and not part of the everyday usefulness of the app.

by C M T Disney Nightmare

So first of all I paid for the full or premium or whatever it is called to share the log with my husband.... and it is beyond worth it (my family made fun of us etc. but here is our experience (it’s long so... I put I’d down below) for those who don’t wish to read I would 100% recommend even if baby is happy and healthy.

this log helped us post hospital release (day 4) to day 10 in determining that our child’s weight had likely gone down again. We had minor signs which concerned us, but family insisted we were being overlying cautious new parents of a new generation and didn’t need to track anything let alone use an ap... our child had lost weight post birth (most do) and gained it back, but on the first dr visit (day 6) lost weight again... went back day 7 and had gained significantly (it was concluded there was little to worry about and it was likely an issue with the different scales used in delivery vs pediatrician’s office. However we noticed (thanks to the ap) that 24 hours between poops had gone by twice and we were only getting 3-4 small wet diapers per day rather than the expected 8+... after our initial release. So we decided to call and asked for a dr appointment 5 days early (I’m glad we did) our child had lost weight, may have been experiencing some dehydration, and visited an ent.... long story short our child is doing well and this ap is wonderfully laid out and worth buying!