Best Apps For Tracking Baby Sleep And Feeding

It’s tough being a parent. You want to do everything you can for your kids, but it feels like there are so many things that need doing!

One of the most important things new parents have to think about is how much sleep their baby is getting, and how much food they’re eating. It’s easy to get caught up in all the other aspects of parenthood—like caring for yourself and your partner, for example—and forget about these important things.

If you want to make sure that your child is getting enough rest and eating well, these apps will help keep track of it all.

Best Apps For Tracking Baby Sleep And Feeding

Making the choice to breastfeed is a great one, but it’s not always easy. Fortunately, there are apps designed to help you stay organized when it comes to pumping and nursing, and they’re more useful than you may think.

We looked for the year’s best breastfeeding apps and chose these winners based on their strong content, general reliability, and high user ratings.

Baby Connect
iPhone rating: 4.9 stars

Android rating: 4.7 stars

Price: $4.99

This comprehensive baby tracker will help you record just about everything relating to your baby, including all kinds of feedings. Log entries with a simple tap, and use the timer to track nursing or pumping sessions. The app will also note the last nursing side as a reminder for next time. Other features include graphs, reports, and trending charts, weekly averages, reminder alarms, night mode, and password protection for complete privacy.

Baby Breastfeeding Tracker
iPhone rating: 4.3 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

This app is a breastfeeding tracker that helps you monitor all the important information you need to make sure you’re meeting your breastfeeding milestones: how much you’ve fed your baby, where and when you nurse, how long and how many times your baby has nursed, and the ability to upload photos, videos, and audio files to keep a sort of journal of your baby’s nursing.

Baby Feeding Log
iPhone rating: 4.8 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Designed to be super simple, this straightforward app features a nursing tracker with timer, a useful pause button for feedings, and options for manually entering or editing data. Quickly access the last feeding time, duration, and side, and use the app to log diaper changes and baby’s sleep, too.

Feed Baby
iPhone rating: 4.6 stars

Android rating: 4.5 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Feed Baby helps parents of newborns keep track of those round-the-clock feedings, diaper changes, pumping sessions, and sleeping. Never forget when your baby last nursed, or how long it lasted, thanks to detailed reports, charts, and graphs that help you visualize your baby’s important data.

Breastfeeding – Baby Tracker
Android rating: 4.6 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

This app was made by moms, for moms, so you can monitor breastfeeding and complementary feedings. Record which side the baby last nursed on, subsequent feedings that can be combined into a single meal, and browse analysis of your logged daily breastfeeding times and durations.

Glow
iPhone rating: 4.7 stars

Android rating: 4.4 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

This app is well known for its pregnancy and prenatal care tools, but it’s also got a variety of features that will help support you after you give birth, including tips and reminders for breastfeeding, pumping, and support for unexpected stress and feelings that come along with the postpartum period.

MyMedela
iPhone rating: 4.5 stars

Android rating: 3.5 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

MyMedela has almost everything you’d want to make sure you’re staying on top of your breastfeeding routine: a progress tracker to make sure you’re pumping and feeding on time, connection to your Medela breast pump to monitor how much you’ve pumped and how much battery is left, troubleshooting and use tips for your breast pump and for breastfeeding in general, and even a tracker for your baby’s height, weight, and other measurements to see how breastfeeding affects your baby’s health.

Ovia
iPhone rating: 4.6 stars

Android rating: 4.5 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Looking to track breastfeeding and everything else going on in your baby’s first few months or years of life? Ovia offers a variety of tools to track and monitor your baby while they grow up, including breastfeeding support resources, a huge database of content written by baby experts, customizable tracking tools to see how your baby is doing in comparison to common and important milestones of growth, and features that let friends and family see the latest updates on your little one, including photos, videos, and posts that can be shared with anyone you let follow your profile.

Baby Daybook
iPhone rating: 4.7 stars

Android rating: 4.8 stars

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Feeding your baby and making sure you take care of their needs on a daily basis is a big task. But this app lets you create an entire schedule and reminders for your baby’s day, from morning to night (and everything in between that you don’t expect!), so that you don’t miss an important feeding or forget how much you’ve fed them each day. The app gives you detailed stats on how often and how much your baby’s fed as well as how much they’re growing and what patterns you might otherwise miss in their daily activities.

If you want to nominate an app for this list, email us at nominations@healthline.com.

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apps to track baby feeding and sleep

When you’re a sleep-deprived new parent, how are you supposed to remember when you last fed your baby, how long they slept or even when they were immunized and for what? The good news: You don’t have to! There are organizational apps to keep track of every milestone, feeding, diaper change, nap and much, much more. Read on for the best baby-tracking apps for new moms.

Philips
Baby+
Track your child’s height, weight and head circumference through interactive graphs, and log information on feedings, diaper changes, sleep and new teeth to get a better understanding of baby’s routine. You can also keep track of baby’s milestones and upload photos, as well as reading parenting guides and blog posts on age-appropriate activities, baby’s development, breastfeeding, postpartum recovery and more. Available for iOS devices and on Google Play.

Sprout Baby
You can use the Sprout Baby app to record your child’s health history (illnesses, symptoms, temperature, medications), as well as to keep track of feedings, bottles, pumping sessions and diapers. The app features a handy printable report with your child’s health data that you can bring to doctor’s visits. There’s also a memories section for recording milestones and other special moments, which you can then export to an eBook. Available for iOS devices.

Child Medical History
A central spot to store your child’s medical history is an incredibly valuable tool for parents. With the Child Medical History app, you can keep track of blood type, vaccination schedule and allergies, as well as diagnostic test results, medications and growth data. It also stores phone numbers to your child’s doctors and other health-related numbers, like poison control. Available for iOS devices.

BabySparks
This development tracker informs you when children typically learn specific skills, compiled from sources including the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BabySparks also provides activities you can do with your child to support this development. The activities are organized by the area of development: gross motor, fine motor, cognitive, speech, sensory, self-care and social-emotional, so you can focus on a specific area if you prefer. Available for iOS devices and on Google Play.

BabyTime
All caregivers can track and record baby’s activities in the BabyTime app. And since it’s designed for one-handed operation, you can save all that valuable information while holding baby, a big plus! Track breastfeeding, bottles, sleep and diapers, and use the slick charts to oversee baby’s day or identify trends. There’s also a night mode with a low-contrast background that’s easier on your eyes. Available for iOS devices.

Baby Connect
Baby Connect records diaper changes, naps, moods, feedings, medicines, photos, activities and displays it in graphs and charts to help you identify trends. Multiple users can access your kid’s info so your babysitter, Grandma and other caregivers can see what baby has been up to and keep you updated, too. Available for iOS devices, Android and Kindle Fire.

Baby Log
Love knowing when every little thing happened and when it might happen again? Baby Log makes charts of your baby’s day, including sleep, feedings and diaper changes. You may even discover your newborn’s natural daily routines and nap schedule by comparing a week’s worth of days side by side. You can also track and record memories, growth, milestones and more. Available for iOS devices.

Baby Feed Timer
Nursing moms love the Baby Feed Timer app because you can record which side you fed your infant with last. Bottle-feeding moms love that you can keep track of just how much formula baby took each time. The app will also tell you when it’s time for the next feeding. Plus, it tracks diapers, pumping, medication administration, sleep and solid feedings, making it useful past the first year. Available for iOS devices.

Glow Baby
This app for baby’s first year tracks developmental milestones, feedings, diapers, sleep, baby’s ailments, medications and more. Use Glow Baby’s timers to manage feeding and sleep schedules, and then head to the in-app community to chat with other parents and share strategies and successes. Available for iOS devices and on Google Play.

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