Tracking bowel movements and feedings became a necessity for us as my son had a couple digestion issues when he was born. Collecting data not only helped us manage the situation better, but it was crucial for us to communicate the symptoms to our doctors to get referred to the right specialist for the care he needed. Thanks for sharing this.

There’s an excellent app called BabyConnect that we used for this with our daughter.

Of course eventually we (like most parents I believe) learned to relax and not obsessively record sleep, feeds and nappies. My friends who have more than one child said after the first they didn’t do any recording like this and instead just let things take their natural course.

There is a market for this. But I can’t see anything doing a better job than baby connect.

This is awesome!

Fun hack to make data entry easy: Use hacked Amazon Dash buttons for really quick data entry. ie: press a button when feeding the baby, press another button when changing diaper.

This is the app I wish I had during my kiddo’s first few months. Thank you for writing it. If we have another kid we’ll likely use it :)

We ended up using WebMD’s baby tracker which was definitely not ideal, but it let my wife and I use both phones for data input.

Looks fantastic! One thing I've noticed is that most existing baby-related apps aren't very well designed. Most have plenty of good-enough features, but there always seems to be a slapdash effort that sleep-deprived parents will commit to and never look back from. This is a real nice departure from that, great to see the effort.

One suggestion would be to add an import option, for those of us who already have some data.

My wife isn't CL-user, so this isn't for us. If you're looking for recommendations, she and I are using Feed Baby (http://feedbaby.com.au) because it's got great graphs and really flexible good features without the social crap of Glow. Definitely worth the $6 for unlimited syncing.

A few years ago we used BabyConnect by Seacloud, having it as an app that worked offline and synced was very useful.

NB: On your screenshot it says 'Last Feed: Formula, Left Breast' - that confused me, then I realised you're probably doing both (maybe? some people supplement breastfeeding with formula).

Is there a way to record how long a breastfeed was? That's pretty important.

Looks neat but from what I've gathered a notepad and pen works best for this. No app can compare with the speed of a quick scribble. Having the data digitized is fun though (poop charts!).

Found a couple bugs:

- The sleep pattern page gives a 500 if you haven't slept yet. Likely a null pointer / empty list situation.

- I think you may have some time zone issues. Some of the timeline pages display histrical events that occurred in the future.

cool app, but in my limited experience with newborns, there just isn't enough time to input data into a system like this to get the cool reports.

Back in my sleep-deprived days after my oldest was born I had an app idea similar to this, but with an added dash of AI/machine learning.

Imagine a bunch of parents using a free/relatively inexpensive application, tracking feeding schedules, sleep, food intake, play etc. and then ranking each day as a thumbs up/down.

Taking that data, properly anonymizing it and then comparing it across babies with similar characteristics (location, age, siblings etc.) you could suggest a daily schedule (with alerts) that would trend closer to a thumbs up.

Started with a prototype, but it never amounted to much. I just imagine the collective value of some of the data managed by these applications and the potential to ease the extremely challenging (but rewarding!) experience of being a parent.

This is great :) Expecting a baby girl next year, so will give the project a go. Wish I had something like it for our first. Have a big 65" in the living room connected to a HTPC so the dashboard would be much loved.

Also a great opportunity to brush on my Py.

As someone without kids and who has never been around babies, what the heck is 'tummy time'?

Shit. I have a baby due next week. My first one. Help?

I've got a newborn on the way. This looks like an ideal way to track data and patterns.

We did something similar for our newborn in the first few months of sleep deprivation. It helped us with focus until we relaxed and could keep better track of it on our own in our head. The key thing these things miss is keeping track of yourself.

Someone got too much paternity leave! :)

I love these services but I never used them for my kids and would never use them. There is definitely a good market for it especially in the US where everyone is paranoid and you have liability issues etc but I just learned not to worry about it and that's with a son who was born 10 weeks too early.

But looks like a great solution for those who need some peace of mind.

I'll be recommending this app to a relative of mine. I really like the fact you've open sourced it. Nice work.

As someone who is both an avid Django user and about to be a new parent, this is awesome! Expect a PR or two from me :)

how come no one ever told me you have to change diapers 20 times a day. wtf??

I'm so glad I do not need this....yet!

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This great. I’ve got an Alexa app I built (https://www.daycarrier.com / https://www.amazon.com/robbinspaul-Day-Carrier/dp/B01M993V1H) that tracks this stuff via Alexa that’s I’d love to try and integrate with this!

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You shouldn't need these kind of apps. Listen to your child. They communicate quite clearly what they need, and after a while you understand their patterns.

This is one of those areas where I believe technology will do more harm than good

What the actual fuck... You can automate or collect data about anything, but some things are going just too far. From experience I know that the forecasting and predictions you can do with this kind of data is very, very limited. The time and costs you need go through are way too high. I sincerely question why anyone would use this, aside from the hobbying and gadget-ness of this.