Eat Sleep: Simple Baby Tracking

I really do like the app, it's a great way to keep track of baby's sleep and feeding schedules. However, the sleep tracker needs to be changed. As soon as baby wakes up, I'm not going to fish for my phone to immediately select 'just woke up'. There needs to be a number dial so I can go back later and set the exact time she woke up, the exact time she fell asleep and the app calculates the amount of hours. I don't like the fell asleep after 5 and then the only option after next is 15 minutes; it screws up your whole hours/day you're trying to keep track of. The feedings is perfect, I like that it breaks down the ounces drank by halves for if they don't finish a bottle. I think it's awesome that there's options for those who breast feed. The app is a really great concept, but the sleep feature needs improvement.

I got in the habit of recording my twins' feedings and changings while in the hospital. I downloaded this app to keep within the habit, and good thing I did because doctors are always wanting to know how many times they're eating, how much, how many times they're going to the bathroom. Our Twin A is still in the NICU, so we see doctors and nurses every day, and they're always asking these questions for Twin B. This app is super handy because I just need to pull up the daily review to see total # of feedings, changings, etc. and then broken down whether it was bottle or breast, how many ounces or how many minutes to breast, if it's a wet, dirty, or both diaper... it's just so awesome and straight forward. I ended up being the 99¢ for the paid version because I know I'll be using this app for quite some time.

I use the app exclusively for tracking sleep so I can't speak to the other components, but this part of the app is just ok. I like that the icons are easy to spot, user-friendly. My issue is there are times I don't have my phone on me so I just write down times my baby feel asleep and woke up, and the app doesn't allow for entering in exact times. In fact, the sleep tracker, unless you strictly use the "just fell asleep" and "just woke up" can be really confusing. And, the app itself doesn't always use exact times. There have been a few false starts, so to speak, when I think my little is asleep so I click on "just feel asleep" and that time is recorded correctly, but then if he wakes five minutes later and I click "just woke up" the app will mark it as a 15 minute nap. If there was the ability to enter exact slew and awake times this app would get five stars.

Overall it is a good app. As new mom it helps me keep track of what time I last fed and what side I last fed on, since I can’t seem to remember anything. The one thing I dislike is that it only allows times to be chosen from five minute increments, this includes the time you started feeding, when diapers were changed, and how long you fed for; it will allow you to choose that you just finished and give you a different time but I don’t always remember to put the info in right away or I am not able to for other reasons. Sometimes my little one feeds for 7 or 8 minutes on a side and my only choices are 5 or 10 minutes which doesn’t accurately represent how long he fed; this is frustrating especially when I have doctors and lactation consultants asking about how long he eats. Otherwise it is simple and easy to use.

Please fix the sleep recording feature! It is so confusing. It would be so much simpler if I had the option to just pick a start and finish time. Apparently if you don't start the sleep timer the moment the baby falls asleep you can't go back, say 15 minutes later and write that they fell asleep at 11:15. You need to wait till they wake up and then record the start, duration and finish of the nap. I'm a sleep deprived mom of twins and I'm trying to use this app to track the naps of the babies and I can't remember when each baby went down after 2 hrs have passed. Was it 11:15? 11:51? Wait, when was baby A asleep? I usually lay them down, they fall asleep and I remember a few minutes later to record that they fell asleep. Ughhhh please simplify this.