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Track daily activities
The seven care trackers help families and authorized coaches record a baby's day. Tracking remains available even when premium Analysis is not active.
Who this guide is for
- Family members recording and correcting care activities.
- Coaches who have permission to view or edit a supported family's activities.
Before you begin
Check the selected baby's name at the top of the tracker. If it is wrong, use the baby switcher before entering any details.
You can open a tracker from Family Home. Depending on the tracker, you can use a quick action, start a timer or open the full manual form.
What each tracker records
| Tracker | Details you can record |
|---|---|
| Breastfeed | Date, start and end times, time spent on the left and right breast, and an optional note. In Add Manually, use + Add turn to record each switch within the same feed. |
| Bottles | Date and time, amount, ml or oz, bottle contents (breast milk, formula, water or juice), and an optional note. |
| Sleep | Start and end times, day or night sleep, mood, environment, settling time and an optional note. |
| Nappies | Date and time, wet or dirty status, an optional image and note. |
| Pumping | Start and end times, side, amount, ml or oz, and an optional note. |
| Medication | Date and time, medication name and an optional note. |
| Solids | Date and time, meal notes, allergens being introduced, reactions, accidental exposure and an optional Allergy Ladder stage. |
Amounts must be greater than zero. A nappy must be marked wet, dirty or both. Medication needs a name. If you report a reaction or accidental exposure under Solids, add the requested explanation.
Record an allergen with a meal
When a Solids meal includes one or more allergens you want to track:
- Turn on Introducing an allergen?.
- Open Choose allergens and select every allergen included in that meal.
- Record Allergic reaction? or Accidental exposure? independently when either applies, and add the explanation requested by the form.
- Save the meal normally.
If you think your baby is having a severe allergic reaction, contact your local emergency services immediately. The tracker does not provide a diagnosis or emergency assessment and does not show a country-specific phone number.
The allergen choice is part of the Solids activity, so it is retained while a family entry waits for an offline retry. Allergen choices are not available on another tracker such as Medication.
Families and authorized coaches can see ✓ Previously introduced beside allergens already recorded in that baby's saved meals. This history tick remains when you select another allergen or open a new meal. Not logged yet means there is no confirmed record. The separate checkboxes are for the current meal only: select a previously introduced allergen again whenever it is included in another meal.
History reflects the saved records, including later corrections or deletions. Meals waiting to sync are included once confirmed online. If history cannot load, the form offers Retry allergen history and you can still record the meal; unavailable history is not labelled as unrecorded.
An allergen tag means only that the meal was logged. It does not mean that the food was tolerated, is safe to give again, or should be introduced without advice from the child's qualified healthcare team.
For a bottle, choose the contents that were actually given. Water and juice are included in bottle and hydration-volume totals, but they are not counted as milk feeds.
After you successfully save a bottle, the app remembers that bottle's contents and ml/oz unit for your account and the selected baby on this device. The next time you choose Log a Bottle for the same baby, those two choices are already selected. The amount, date, time and note still start fresh. Leaving the form without saving does not change the remembered choices. If the device cannot retain the preference, the form safely falls back to Breastmilk and ml.
Pumping works the same way across Add Manually and the timer. After a successful pumping save, the app remembers the side and ml/oz unit for your account and that baby on this device. A new manual entry restores both choices. A new timer restores the unit, while choosing Left or Right still sets the side for that timer. The amount, start/end times and note always start fresh, and leaving without saving does not change the preference.
Save a new activity
- Open the correct tracker for the selected baby.
- Choose a quick action, timer or full entry form.
- Check the date, time and tracker-specific details.
- Add a family note if useful.
- Save the entry.
Breastfeed, Sleep and Pumping can use timers. See Use activity timers.
While a Breastfeed timer is running, the total clock counts actual feeding time. The two side controls show separate left and right totals. Choose the other breast to switch immediately. Tap the active breast to pause for burping or changing position, then tap either breast to resume there. Paused time is excluded from totals, but the Analysis timeline still shows one continuous session from Start to Stop. Stop when the full feeding session is finished, then review and save it once.
The pencil at the top right of the Breastfeed timer is greyed out while the feed is running, because the feed's times cannot be changed mid-feed. Stop the feed first, then tap the pencil to correct the start, switch or end times before you save.
Breastfeed times are shown to a tenth of a minute, because the timer records every second. For example, a feed of just under nine minutes shows 9m, and its sides might show Left 8.2m · Right 0.7m. Whole minutes are shown without a decimal. The same rounding appears in the tracker history, on Home, in chat activity details and in the session-prep report.
For a feed recorded afterwards, open Add Manually and enter Turn 1. Choose + Add turn for every breast switch. Each new turn starts on the opposite breast by default, but every turn's side and start time remain editable. Use Remove on an unwanted turn; its time is merged into the neighbouring turn so the session keeps the same overall start and end. All turns are saved together as one breastfeeding activity.
Sleep entries must end after they start. If the start and end are the same, the app keeps the entry open and asks for a sleep time longer than zero minutes instead of creating an empty record. Sleep entries may also show a warning when they overlap another sleep or leave an unusual gap. Review the times and either correct them or confirm that they are intentional.
Start and end times cannot be in the future. If you choose a future time, the app changes it to the current time and immediately explains why. Check the adjusted time before saving; future times cannot be confirmed or saved anyway.
For a new Sleep entry, the app initially suggests Night from 18:00 through 07:59 local time and Day from 08:00 through 17:59. Check the type before saving and change it when the baby's sleep does not match that suggestion.
Review older entries
Tracker history is grouped by the family's local date with the newest records first. Use the older-history action to load more.
- Range activities show their start, end and duration.
- A timed Breastfeed entry that used both breasts shows the left and right duration breakdown while remaining one feed.
- The Solids tracker can show reactions only or show records for one selected allergen.
- Every tracker has a date picker under Find activity by date above its history. Choose a date to go straight to matching older records without scrolling through every newer page.
- Select Clear date to return to the recent history.
- In Sleep tracker history and Analysis, Night Sleep entries starting after midnight may remain with the previous sleep day so split overnight sleep stays together. Family Home instead keeps every activity row under its actual calendar date, preserving the chronology around feeds and other wake-ups.
Date lookup follows the date headings already used in the tracker and the timezone saved with each entry. This also applies to activity recorded while travelling. Sleep keeps its existing overnight grouping rule.
Edit or delete an activity
Select an item in tracker history, Family Home or an Analysis chart. Make the correction and save, or use the delete option when available.
If the item changed somewhere else while you had it open, the app asks you to reload it before saving. This protects newer information from being overwritten.
If you loaded older entries before opening the item, saving or closing the editor keeps those older entries loaded and returns you to the same part of the log.
Family notes and coach access
Family notes remain part of the family record. A coach can read them only when permitted. A coach edit does not replace the family's note; coach-only context belongs in private coach notes.
A read-only coach can view activities but cannot create, edit or delete them. Access can end immediately if the support relationship or permissions change.
Using tracking with a poor connection
When a family records a new activity for its own household, the activity can be kept as pending and retried when the connection returns. A pending or failed item appears in the matching tracker, where the family can retry or discard it.
Coaches recording activity for a supported family must reconnect before saving.
When an edit to an existing record can't be saved, for example without a connection, the edit sheet shows Not saved yet. A family's change is kept on this phone. While the edit sheet stays open, the app tries again by itself for a few minutes, and you can tap Save to try again yourself. Changing the entry again stops the automatic tries until you tap Save, so a newer change is never replaced by an older one. If your sign-in has expired, the sheet says so instead: sign in again, then tap Save.
Leaving the sheet before it saves asks whether to keep the change for later or discard it. Keep for later keeps what is on screen; if the phone can't store it, the sheet stays open and says so. A kept change shows as Change not saved on Home and in the matching tracker; opening that entry from history or Analysis also goes to it. Tap Review to open it again and save it:
- If the change already reached the server, the app says it was saved.
- If someone changed the record on another device in the meantime, the sheet shows your change with Updated elsewhere and sends nothing. Reload latest shows the latest version and drops your change, and the app says so; edit the entry again if your change is still needed. Cancel keeps your change for later instead.
- If the record was deleted, the app says so and drops the change.
Deleting the entry drops a kept change for it. Kept changes are dropped after 30 days. Signing out asks first, then drops them too. Coaches editing a supported family's record get the same automatic retry while the sheet is open, but nothing is kept on the phone, so they should not leave the sheet until it is saved. Deleting a record still needs a connection.
If something goes wrong
- You cannot save: check the required fields and the start/end times shown on the form.
- “This device's clock is … ahead/behind”: the phone's clock is more than 30 minutes wrong, so Littles holds the entry back rather than log the wrong times. This also applies to edits and allergy ladder dates. Turn on automatic date and time in the phone's settings (on iPhone: Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically), then save again. Nothing is lost; the form keeps what you entered.
- An entry is pending: reconnect, then use retry. Avoid creating the same event again while it is still pending.
- Older history will not load: keep the entries already shown and try loading more again later.
- An image failed: the rest of a Nappy entry remains available; retry the image when connected.
- Coach editing stopped working: refresh the family view and confirm the current permission with the practice owner.
