What's new đŁ
The running record of what changed and why, corrections included. A changelog that only ever says âimprovements and bug fixesâ is hiding something. Where a fix could have reached somebody, the entry says what we checked, what we found, and whether you need to do anything. It also says where our records cannot settle it, because âwe found noneâ and âthere were noneâ are not the same sentence. Each of those problems was in the app until we fixed it, and its entry says how we found it and what it took to happen. Of the 31 changes we checked for impact, 29 fixed a problem. We found 24 of those in our own testing and 4 by checking our advice against the published guidance, and for 1 our notes from then do not say. How we hold the safety content to account is written up in how we double-check our food advice.
Every user-facing change and every correction we have published, newest first.
- Letter photos say what was new
Under each photo in the monthly letter: the date, then exactly the food tasted for the first time, not everything else on the plate.
Why: A photo of a full plate listed every food on it, so you could not tell which one was the first taste.
- What changed this week shows the numbers
The food recap now puts the last 7 days next to the 3 weeks before for everything you log: sleep in hours and minutes, feeds, formula and breast milk by bottle in your own ounces or milliliters, meals, diaper changes, and new foods tried. An arrow marks anything that moved by 20% or more.
Why: It used to name only what moved, so a steady week said nothing you could use.
- Editing an entry shows only the edit
Edit a feed, nap, diaper, dose or activity in the log sheet and the form for a new one steps aside, Log button and all, until you save or cancel the edit.
Why: With both on screen, the form for a new feed could pass for the edit, and Log feed for its save. At 3 AM, one form is plenty.
- Timers on your lock screen, and a home screen widget
In the iPhone and Android apps, version 1.0.8: a running nursing timer or nap shows on your lock screen, counting up, and in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one (iOS 17 and later). A home screen widget shows the last feed, the last diaper and the next nap. And Print works inside the app now, with Save as PDF. Update the app to get them.
Why: At 3 AM you want the time on the side without unlocking anything, and the last feed without opening the app.
- Masa and corn flour in the food list
Masa, the corn dough tortillas, tamales and pupusas are made from, is now a food you can log, found as masa, masa harina or Maseca. And corn flour finds Cornmeal, which it is by another name.
Why: Searching masa found the dumplings and the porridge made from it, but not masa itself.
- Food search knows the name on your label
Search for a food by another of its names and the result says which: swai shows as Basa (swai), aubergine as Eggplant (aubergine). Words that only say how a food comes no longer get in the way, so "swai fish", "salmon fillet" and "chicken breast" find the food.
Why: A parent holding a package labeled swai saw only Basa and thought we did not have it.
- Your formula and diaper counts, double-checked
When a number you enter for your formula, diaper or wipes supply is far off what a family buys or keeps, the app asks before saving it. 48 grams of formula powder is only a few bottles, so it asks whether you meant 48 ounces; 2 diapers bought asks whether those were packs. Once it saves, it says what went in: how many bottles the formula makes, or how many diapers you have on hand.
Why: A can typed in the wrong unit used to save quietly, and the days left barely moved.
- Firsts find the photo
On Firsts, a food with no photo from its first try now shows the first photo of it you took after, or the photo you took of the whole meal it was in, instead of an empty frame. And when a food on the plate has never had a photo of your baby eating it, the Solids log says so above the photo buttons, until there is one.
Why: The first face is the one you want, and the next best is the first one you caught.
- Your babyâs photos in the food story and on the firsts poster
The food story and the firsts poster now show a photo of your baby eating each food where you have one: the yums with a yum, the yucks with a yuck, the very first food with its own photo, and a grid of the newest four for the count. Where there is no photo yet, our cartoon baby stands in, and the poster and the story say how many still need one. On the poster each photo keeps its yum or yuck as a small badge, and the photos print.
Why: It is a story about your baby, and the faces they made are the best part of it.
- Peas said by voice land on the plate
The voice transcriber sometimes writes peas the old way, "pease", and nothing matched it, so peas were left off a meal said out loud while the rest of it was logged. "Pease" now counts as peas.
Why: A food you said should be on the plate without saying it twice.
- Type a sentence to log it
At the bottom of the log sheet, "Type what happened" opens a box for what you would have said: "4 oz bottle, then a wet diaper", "nap 1 to 2:30", "tylenol 2.5 ml". It goes through the same checks as voice, logs one thing straight away, and asks before logging several. It needs no mic and nothing to download, so it works with voice switched off, and while voice is listening, "Type instead" switches over. Also fixed: "pumped 3oz", written without a space, logged a 3 oz feed of breast milk. It logs as pumping now.
Why: Some moments you cannot talk, like next to a sleeping baby at 3 AM, and one typed line is quicker than a form.
- A happy graduation when a treatment is finished
When you end a helmet, eye patch, boots and bar, or harness or brace treatment and say it is finished, Today now cheers your baby by name, "Happy graduation!", and the badge shows a cartoon baby in a graduation cap holding a rolled-up diploma. Choosing "No, just stop tracking" ends tracking the way it always has, with no graduation.
Why: Months of wearing a device is a lot of work for a baby and a family, and the day it ends is worth a real celebration.
- Graduations in the memory book
Each helmet, eye patch, boots and bar, or harness or brace treatment you marked as finished now has a line in the memory book, under Graduations: the graduation badge, the day it ended, how many days it ran and about how many hours it was worn, like "114 days and about 2,400 hours with the helmet". The hours are the same ones the treatmentâs own page showed, day by day. A treatment you stopped tracking without finishing is left out.
Why: All those hours are part of your babyâs story, and now the book keeps them.
- "Log again" logs on one tap again
In the log sheet, the "Log again" buttons on Activities and Meds, and the "Todayâs vitamin D" button, now log on one tap, with Undo in the message, the way Todayâs "Log again" already did. The big activity buttons still open the details first. A dose goes through every check the form gives it first, and any warning it carries is in the message. When something is missing, like the amount of a medicine last logged as "1 dose", or which ibuprofen it was, the button fills the form so you can add it.
Why: A button that repeats what you logged last time already has everything it needs, so a second tap only slowed it down.
- When do babies walk? A guide to standing, walkers and shoes
New in Learn: when most babies take their first steps, with the CDCâs milestones in its own words, why baby walkers do not help and send babies to the hospital, whether standing and bouncing on your lap is okay, how to hold hands without hurting an elbow, and when a baby needs shoes. Each answer shows its source.
Why: Walkers, early standing and first shoes are where well-meant habits most often go against the advice, and parents ask about all three.
- How much fat babies need, in one guide
New in Learn: how much of a babyâs diet is fat at each age, from breast milk through the toddler years, why low-fat foods wait until 2, and the foods that bring healthy fat, with how to serve each one safely. Where the US and UK advice on milk differs after the first birthday, it says so, with the sources for each.
Why: Several of our guides said not to choose low-fat foods for a baby, but none said how much fat a baby needs.
- A security fix for the iPhone and Android apps
This is version 1.0.7 of the iPhone and Android apps, from the App Store and Google Play. Both apps show YummyYucky through Capacitor, the open-source layer they are built on, and Capacitor fixed a security hole in it: a specially made link, tapped inside an app, could load another site's code with the same access to your account that the app has. The apps now run the fixed version. Nothing else in them changes.
Why: Tapping a link should only ever take you somewhere. It should never let anyone else into your account.
- Acetaminophen for a baby under 3 months now comes with the fever lineHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging acetaminophen for a 12-day-old during our night-time walkthrough of every log in the app.Observed impact: We checked: no family has logged acetaminophen in YummyYucky for a baby under 3 months. Two brought such doses in from another app (13 in all, June to September), and neither baby has a fever reading.Action needed: Any fever in a baby under 3 months (a rectal temperature of 100.4°F / 38°C or higher) is an emergency, call your pediatrician right away.
When you log acetaminophen (Tylenol, or paracetamol and Calpol in the UK) for a baby under 3 months, or with no birthday saved, the app now says: "Any fever in a baby under 3 months (a rectal temperature of 100.4°F / 38°C or higher) is an emergency, call your pediatrician right away." It shows on the Meds form, in the dose editor and on a reminder, and in the message after a one-tap, Log again or voice log. It never stops a dose from saving. It is the same sourced line the app already shows for a fever reading at that age.
Why: At this age a fever is a call to the doctor first, and logging a dose is the moment a parent is dealing with one.
- Our Terms and privacy notices, updated
The next time you open YummyYucky, it asks you to accept the Terms and Privacy Policy once more. Since you last accepted them, they say more plainly how long a guestâs entries and a deleted accountâs data are kept, how gift refunds work and how we handle copyright notices, and they give our companyâs mailing address. The health information checkbox from October is part of it, and our Consumer Health Data Notice now also names the limited record we keep of which features get used, which never holds what you log.
Why: You should agree to what the Terms actually say today, not to the version from August.
- Trying it on the website? Your entries are kept
If you try YummyYucky on the website without an account, your first entry saves as before, and the next one asks you to save a free account first. Until you do, a guestâs entries live only in that browser, and a browser can lose them on its own: Safari clears a siteâs storage after a week away, and a link opened inside Instagram or Facebook keeps its own storage, apart from Safari and Chrome. Saving takes an email and a password, and everything you logged comes with you. In the iPhone and Android apps, nothing changes.
Why: A parent who logged for a week and came back to an empty screen would lose exactly what we are here to remember for them. Now the most anyone can lose is one entry.
- Letters, voice clips, milestones and vaccine records stay with whoever added them
Everyone who helps care for your baby can still read every letter, voice clip, milestone and vaccine record, and add their own. Now only the person who added one, or the baby's owner, can edit it or delete it. Before, any caretaker could change or delete one someone else wrote.
Why: A letter to your baby is yours. Someone else on the account should not be able to rewrite it or take it away.
- An offline bite with a photo is never lost, and two smaller fixes
If your phone was nearly out of storage, logging a bite with a photo while offline could lose the whole entry, not just the photo. Now the entry is kept, and only the photo is dropped. The CSV download now opens a note that starts with = or + as the words you typed, not as a spreadsheet formula. And on the sitter page, Who to call can be edited only once your saved details have loaded, so a slow connection can no longer open a blank form that would replace them.
Why: A log you made should never disappear, and a download or a slow screen should never change what you saved.
- Correction: every spice guide now names its sources, and some lines changedHow we found it: Checking our advice against the published guidance.What it took: Reading every spice guide line by line against the sources it now cites, during the food audit.Observed impact: We checked what these changes touch: they are reading pages, and nothing a family logged changes.Action needed: None needed. If your baby has a cashew or pistachio allergy, ask your pediatrician before offering sumac.
Every spice guide now lists the sources behind it, and checking each line against them changed several. The ones that matter most: sumac is in the same plant family as poison sumac, cashew, and pistachio (we had said it was unrelated), so the sumac guide now asks families managing a cashew or pistachio allergy to check with their pediatrician first. Vanilla extract keeps part of its alcohol through cooking, so the vanilla guide gives the numbers and alcohol-free options. The chili guide now says no health body gives an age for heat, and what to do if chili gets in your baby's eyes. The fenugreek guide drops a line we could not source. The cinnamon and turmeric guides also note that some of these spices have carried lead, with the FDA and CDC reports behind it. A few other lines, like where mustard must be labeled as an allergen, were reworded to say only what their sources support.
Why: A spice guide is advice a parent acts on, so it should show where each line comes from.
- Correction: butter and ghee no longer count as your baby's milk introductionHow we found it: Checking our advice against the published guidance.What it took: Reading the butter page against what the allergen tracker did with a log of butter, during the food audit.Observed impact: We checked our records for every log of butter and ghee. Every baby who had them has also had yogurt with no reaction, so milk stays introduced. Butter and ghee no longer add to milk's tally, and where ghee came first, milk's first date is now the first yogurt.Action needed: None needed. To introduce milk, offer a milk food like plain whole-milk yogurt.
Butter and ghee have only a little milk protein, and our butter page has always said a thin spread is not a milk introduction. The allergen tracker counted them as one anyway. Now it doesn't: logging butter or ghee never marks milk introduced. They are still milk foods for safety. A reaction logged with butter or ghee puts milk on hold, a milk hold covers them, and we won't suggest them before milk is in.
Why: The allergen tracker should only call milk introduced when your baby has had enough milk protein for it to mean something.
- Correction: a Brazil nut amount, pasteurized cheese in pupusas, and crickets with shellfishHow we found it: Checking our advice against the published guidance.What it took: Reading 50 food pages chosen at random, as they appear on the site, against the sources each one cites, plus the pages an outside review had questioned.Observed impact: None found. We checked our records for every log of these foods, and no family had logged any of them in the app.Action needed: None needed. If your baby has reacted to shellfish, the app now treats crickets the same way.
A review of our food pages found a few things to put right. The Brazil nut page now gives an amount, no more than about a quarter of a nut a day, finely ground and not every day, because one nut can carry more selenium than a baby's whole daily limit. The pupusa page now says to use cheese made with pasteurized milk, since quesillo is sometimes made from raw milk. Crickets and cricket flour, which can cross-react with shellfish, are now held back like shellfish for a baby who has reacted to it. The wood ear page now gives the same short-soak rule everywhere it mentions soaking. And four pages about beans and chickpeas no longer say that legumes are never common allergens: peanut and soy are legumes that are.
Why: A food page has to be right in every line, including the ones about foods most families rarely cook.
- Print buttons in the iPhone and Android apps say where printing works
In the iPhone and Android apps, the print buttons, on the vaccine record, the reaction summary, the sitter page and the rest, did nothing when tapped. The apps cannot print yet, so in place of each button they now say so: open the page at yummyyuc.ky in a web browser to print it or save it as a PDF. On the web, the buttons print as before.
Why: A button that does nothing when you tap it is worse than no button.
- Voice knows a clove of garlic is garlic
Saying "a clove of garlic" put Cloves on the bite as well as Garlic, and a few other everyday phrases did the same: a sprinkle of cinnamon added Sprinkles, date night or a due date added Dates, up the ramp added Ramps, and crickets chirping added Crickets. Those phrases now log only the foods eaten. Saying the food itself, like dates for breakfast, still logs it.
Why: Voice should log what your baby ate, not every food word in the sentence.
- Doses in your day, an offline sign at the top, and a few smaller fixes
Doses and vitamins now show in Today's day, beside the feeds and changes, the same ones the meds tile counts, and a tap opens one to change or delete it. When your phone is offline, Today says so at the top, and once you are back online the app tells you that what you logged offline is saved. On Solids, after your first food, the popular first foods stay under your own, so the second food is one tap too. On a baby's page, tapping a label like Birthday opens its field. And the form that saves a guest account has a Cancel.
Why: Each one cost a tap or a moment of doubt, found walking through the app at 3 AM the way a new parent does.
- A care summary link shows the day it really ends
A care summary link someone else on the baby made, like a sitter, stops working when their access to the baby ends. If you shortened their access after they made it, the link still showed its old date: in your list of shared links it looked live after it had stopped working, and the page itself said it expired on that later day. Both now show the day it really ends, and once it has, the link leaves the list of live ones. Links you make yourself keep the date you chose.
Why: When you send a link to a doctor or a daycare, the date on it should be the day it stops working, not a later one.
- Correction: ugli fruit from 9 months, and gulab jamun from age 2How we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Reading the ugli fruit page, whose 6-month card suggested a whole segment to gum, or the 12-month sweets card on the khoya page, which named gulab jamun.Observed impact: None found. We checked our records for every ugli fruit and gulab jamun log, and none was for a baby younger than the ages the pages now give.Action needed: None needed. Wait on ugli fruit until about 9 months, as with oranges and grapefruit, and on gulab jamun until about age 2.
The ugli fruit page started at 6 months, with a card that offered a whole segment to gum through its membrane. Like oranges, grapefruit and every other citrus with segments, it now starts at around 9 months, with the membrane and seeds taken off and the flesh in small pieces, never a whole segment. And the sweets card on the khoya page, for 12 months, named gulab jamun, whose own page says to wait until about age 2. It no longer does, and says why.
Why: A card for a 6-month-old has to be safe on its own, and two of our pages giving different ages for the same food is one too many.
- The time and battery show again at the top of the iPhone app
In the iPhone app, the strip at the very top of the screen was black, and the time, signal and battery on it were dark too, so you could not read them. The strip now matches the page, light or dark, and the time and battery show on it. It follows your theme when you change it.
Why: The time and your battery should always be readable on your own phone, and the app was hiding them.
- Voice keeps a black poop with its diaper, and a pump stays a pumpHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging by voice from Today with one of these sentences: a dirty diaper said as "a dirty one" with its color or what was in it in the same sentence; "pumped" and an amount of two digits or more, with no one named before it, like "pumped 120 ml"; "messy" without the word diaper or one; or a food named right beside a poop with no word of eating, no meal and no time. Or, on either microphone, speech recognition writing one of a poop's words as another: "white" as "wide" or "why" before curds or specks, "pooped" as "proved", "her poop" as "her coop", or "B.M." with its periods. Tapping and typing were never affected.Observed impact: None found for the poop sentences. We checked every food logged within a minute of a dirty diaper by the same person, which is what one spoken sentence makes, and every nigella seeds log: outside our own family's test logs there were none. For pumping, we checked the bottles of breast milk logged in milliliters since September 30. Voice saves only the log, never what was said, so our records cannot show whether any of them came from saying "pumped", or whether a color said aloud was misheard.Action needed: If you log pumping by voice in milliliters, check Feeds for a bottle your baby did not drink, and delete it. If a dirty diaper you described by voice with its color is missing, add it from Today.
Saying "she had a dirty one, black seeds in it" to the Log button logged black seeds as a food and no diaper at all, so the black color never reached the diaper. Voice now hears "a dirty one" and "a messy one" as a diaper change, and the color stays with it. Saying "pumped 120 ml" logged a 120 ml bottle your baby never drank. It now fills in a pump at the top of Feeds, the way "I pumped 120 ml" always did. "Messy" on its own, like "yogurt was so messy", no longer logs a dirty diaper. And a food you name right beside a poop with no word of eating, like "corn again, dirty diaper" or "she pooped, then peas", is no longer logged as eaten. The message after the log names it as not saved, so you can add it if she ate it. Say "she ate peas" or "peas for lunch" and it is logged as before. Voice also puts back more of the ways speech recognition mishears a poop, like "white" heard as "wide" before curds, "pooped" heard as "proved" and "B.M." with its periods, so a pale or black color reaches the diaper.
Why: A black or pale poop can be a reason to call your pediatrician, so it is the one thing voice must never lose, and a bottle or a meal that never happened makes the day and the food record wrong. When a sentence could mean either, voice now leaves the food for you to add instead of guessing.
- Remove a food you added
Added a food by mistake, or spelled it wrong? On Foods, tap its card and pick "đïž Remove this food". It works on foods you added yourself that are not in a log or a saved meal yet. A food that is logged stays, so its allergens stay in your baby's history.
Why: There was no way to take back a food you added, so a typo stayed in your search for good.
- Poison Control's number is one tap to call
Poison Control's number is now a tap-to-call link on every page and every phone. So are the postpartum helplines, the battery ingestion hotline and our own contact number. Before, whether you could tap a number depended on your phone, and on an iPhone a page with the number on it could redraw itself as it opened.
Why: The number you might need in a hurry should be one tap away on every phone, and the page around it should open the same way every time.
- Log the helmet coming off at the time it did
Forgot to tap "Helmet off" when it came off? Under the button, tap "đ Took off earlier? Set the time", pick "15m ago" or set the time, and Save. The eye patch, hearing aids, braces and harness have the same link under their own off button while they are on ("đ Patch off earlier?", "đ Aids out earlier?").
Why: You could say the helmet went back on earlier, but not when it came off, so a late "Helmet off" was logged at the minute you tapped it.
- Log the helmet going back on at the time it did
Forgot to tap "Helmet back on" when it went back on? Under the button, tap "đ Back on earlier? Set the time", pick "15m ago" or set the time, and Save. "Add a time it was on" now lets you leave "Came off" empty when it is still on, and a time off that is still going can be opened on the helmet page to fill in when it went back on. The eye patch, hearing aids and braces work the same way under their own button while they are off ("đ Patch on earlier?", "đ Aids in earlier?").
Why: Every way to say the helmet went back on a while ago also asked when it came off again, so a late tap could only be logged at the minute you tapped it.
- A printout of the helmet week for your orthotist
On the helmet page, tap "đšïž Print for your orthotist" for one page of the last 7 days, or the last 14, about the time between two visits. Each day shows the hours worn against your goal, every time it came off and why, the skin checks and the cleanings, and the top adds up the days, the average hours and how many days were at or over the goal. A skin check's photo is not printed: the page says it is in Health. The eye patch, hearing aids, braces and harness have the same printout for the eye team, the audiologist or the orthopedic team. Free, like the tracker.
Why: The helmet page showed the last two weeks on the screen only, so there was nothing to hand the orthotist at a visit.
- The CDC milestone checklist, on one page
New in Learn: all 159 milestones from the CDC's checklists, 2 months to 5 years, age by age in the CDC's own words. The visits where the AAP recommends a developmental or autism screening are marked, and the page says what the CDC suggests if your child is not doing something on the list yet, including how to reach your state's early intervention program without a doctor's referral. It is the same list as What's next, where you can tick it off for free.
Why: Anyone can now read the checklist before a checkup, with or without the app, and check our copy against the CDC's own, which the page links.
- One page for the wear tracker
New in Learn: what the free wear tracker does for a helmet, eye patch, hearing aid or brace, all in one place. It covers the hours on beside your care team's goal, the published schedules each one can start from, the skin checks and who they tell you to call, and where to turn it on. Each kind of gear links its own day-to-day guide.
Why: Until now, the only page about the whole tracker was the one written for clinicians.
- Correction: one word in the 2-month milestones
The 2-month checklist on Whatâs next read "Smiles when you talk or smile at them". The CDCâs checklist says "talk to or smile at", and ours now does too. If you had ticked it, the tick is still there.
Why: We say the checklist is in the CDC's own words, so a word missing from it is ours to put back.
- Each fix we checked for impact says how we found it
Every entry here that checks whether a fix reached anyone now says how we found the problem (our own testing, a parent telling us, or checking our advice against the published guidance) and what it took for it to happen, like a certain kind of sentence said to voice. The top of the page counts them. Where the only records a check turned up were in our own family's log, the entry now says so. Where an older entry had a detail wrong, like the hour of the evening a date bug started or what an import from Nara Baby did with a diaper's color, it now says what the app really did. The numbers beside the filters are in brackets now, so All and Corrections each read with their own count.
Why: A fix reads differently when our own testing found it than when it reached a family first, and the page did not say which. With what it took written down, you can judge for yourself how close it came to you.
- One tap on Today, or the whole form from the Log button
Today's Wet, Dirty, Both, Start sleep and bottle buttons log on one tap, and a message says what was logged, with Undo. Nothing opens under them anymore. For more detail, use the Log button: every tab there is a form. On Diapers, tap Wet, Dirty or Both and its details are right there in the order you use them: blowout or blood, the color with what it means right under it, a photo for your doctor, "Happened earlier?", then texture, size, mucus and which diaper. One "Log diaper" saves all of it. The Activity tab works the same way, and on Meds a recent dose or today's vitamin D fills in the form, so you can check it and tap Log, with the same questions as before. The dose and vitamin D buttons on Today, a reminder's "Log now", and the helmet and other gear buttons still log on one tap, with Undo in the message, and why the helmet came off is one tap from the line under its button. When you log by voice, it saves when you finish talking and the message has Undo. If it heard a pale stool or a medicine's label warning, the message says that too. Every message names what was logged and its time, in the same words whether you tapped, used a form or spoke. To change a detail later, tap â on the entry.
Why: Logging a dirty diaper and then opening its details to add a color or a photo took more steps than filling in the form first. Now the quick tap stays quick, and when you want to record everything, it is all on one screen with one button.
- Describing a poop by voice keeps its color and leaves its foods outHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging by voice, with one kind of sentence: a poop described with a word that is also a food ("white curds", "black seeds"), its color said after a nap or a bottle or with "I think", a word voice did not know yet ("pooping", "stools"), "oh no" before "blood", or two amounts for one dose. Tapping and typing were never affected.Observed impact: None found for foods. We checked every log of the foods the old voice reading could take from a description of a poop (cottage cheese, nigella or black seeds, black pepper, black beans, corn, sesame and chia): 13 logs, and none was logged on its own at the moment of a diaper change, as one spoken sentence would be. Voice runs on your phone and saves only the log it makes, never what you said, so a stool color, blood or a second dose amount that voice missed cannot be found in our records.Action needed: If you logged a diaper by voice and said a color like pale, black or red, or blood, open that change from Today and check its color and blood. If you said two amounts for one dose, check that dose. If a food shows up that your baby did not eat, delete it from Today.
Saying "poop with white curds" to the Log button logged a meal of cottage cheese, and black seeds, black beans or corn in a description of a poop logged those foods too. Now a food you name while describing a poop or a diaper is left out unless you say she ate it, like "she ate black beans", and the message after the log says it was not saved, so you can add it if she did. The color stays with the diaper, and a reaction you mention, like hives, still goes with the meal. A color said on its own, like "she pooped after her nap, it was black", now stays with the diaper too. When it could be about something else you said, like a bottle, the Diapers tab opens and asks. It also asks about a color said with "I think", "it looked like it but she seems fine" or "watch for", instead of dropping it. Voice now hears "pooping", "poops", "stools", "bms", "ash colored", "whiter", "grayer", "lighter" and "colorless", and "oh no" is no longer read as a no for blood, a color or a reaction, so "oh no blood in her poop" keeps the blood. And a dose said with two amounts, like "2.5 or 5 ml of Tylenol", is no longer saved as one of them: Meds opens with the medicine and the amount empty, so you fill in the one you gave.
Why: A pale, black or red poop can be a reason to call your pediatrician, so a color that goes missing is the worst mistake voice can make with it, and a meal that never happened puts a false allergen in the record. When voice is not sure, it now asks instead of guessing.
- Log in one tap, then add the details right there
Wet, Dirty or Both, Start sleep, the bottle button, an activity, a repeat dose or vitamin D, a reminder's "Log now", and the helmet and other gear buttons still log on the tap. What changed is what comes next: the details open right under the button you tapped, each one a single tap that saves as you tap it. For a diaper, that is the color with what it means right under it, blowout or blood, a photo for your doctor, and more if you want it. For a nap, when they really went down and a check-in. For a bottle, the amount. For an activity, how long and a note. For a dose, the amount and, for ibuprofen, which one. For the helmet, why it came off. In the Log sheet, and for most things you say to the Log button, the sheet closes as it saves and the details wait in one line above the tab bar, with what was logged, Add details, Undo and â. On the Activity and Diapers tabs, "Happened earlier?" above the buttons sets the time first, so a bath half an hour ago is one more tap, not two. Quick times like "15m earlier" move a log back from when you logged it, never later, and "Another time" reaches any time or day. Tapped Wet when it was Dirty? Switch it in the details, and it stays the same change. One set of details is open at a time: log anything else and it closes, and the log before keeps its Undo in a message. If that log carried a warning, the message repeats the warning's words. A warning, like a pale or red stool, blood or a helmet off for a fever, shows the moment you tap it, even if the save fails.
Why: A one-tap log saved before there was a chance to add its photo or its real time, and fixing it later meant finding it and editing it, which cost more taps than the shortcut saved. Now every detail is one tap right after the log, so a complete log takes the fewest taps, and every kind of log works the same way.
- Feeds, Solids, temperature and gear in fewer taps
On Feeds, the bottle opens on the last bottle anyone in your family gave in the past 3 days, a mixed bottle remembers both amounts, and with nothing to go on it asks breast milk or formula instead of picking one. Nursing typed in afterwards takes each side's minutes when you tap Both, or just the total, and minutes with no time set end now, the way the timer saves them. No side is picked for you unless the last feed points to one, so Log waits for you. The nursing timer has "Nursing began before the timer?" (5, 10 or 15 minutes before you tapped start), the same on every phone, and "Forgot to stop it?" ends the feed at a quick time in one tap. "I pumped" sits at the top of Feeds on your usual amount, and any pump can be fixed. On Solids, when they ate, how much and a photo are one tap each before Log. Marking a reaction picks no severity for you: the urgent note shows until you pick Mild, and the note stays in view until you tap Done, also when you add the reaction later by editing the bite. The temperature form reads in the order it happens, and a fever in a baby under 3 months shows its warning as you type the reading, before you save it. Adding a time the helmet or other gear was on or off asks for both times, and a saved skin check can be fixed. In Health photos nothing is picked for you unless you came from a diaper's photo button, "Taken earlier?" sets when a photo was taken, and tapping a photo's words lets you fix it. Every editor takes what its form takes, with the same quick times, and saving a change has an Undo.
Why: Each of these cost extra taps or guessed: a time hidden behind a picker, a side or a milk picked for you, a reaction that started on Mild, a feed typed afterwards that ended in the future. The forms now ask only for what you have not told them.
- Voice logs it the way you said it
Hold the Log button and say it: a diaper, a feed, a dose, the start of a sleep, an activity, the helmet or other gear now leaves the same line above the tab bar, with Add details and an Undo that waits for you. Say several things at once and the others each say themselves in a message with an Undo. If what you said includes a warning, like a pale stool, the first one's details stay open above the tab bar while the rest of the sentence logs, and any other warning is said in a message once the sentence is done. If something else needs a tab, the first one opens right away with the warning pinned at the top, and anything more is named so you can say it on its own. "Nursed left 8 minutes, right 6" saves both sides in the order you said them, and Add details sets a side or the minutes it missed. When it cannot tell the day of a diaper, a feed, a dose, a bite, a pump or an activity, like "last night", the tab it opens is filled in with everything you said and waits for you to set the time, instead of saving it as now. A nursing feed with no side, or a dose of acetaminophen or ibuprofen with no measured amount, opens filled in too, waiting only for what is missing. A bottle said without breast milk or formula follows your family's last bottle and says so, or asks. "Helmet off for her bath" keeps the reason, and no longer logs a bath. A stool said with two colors where one is a warning, like pale and black, is no longer saved as just one of them: nothing is saved, and Diapers opens with both colors and what each one means named under the colors until you pick one. White curds or specks in a stool are not read as a pale stool, and when voice cannot tell whether the poop itself was white, it asks. Anything you said that the log has no place for is named as not saved.
Why: Voice saved what it could guess: a day it could not place as now, two sides as one, a side left blank. It now saves what you said and asks for the rest.
- Ibuprofen always asks which one, and every reaction gets its noteHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging ibuprofen from Log again, a reminder or voice, saving acetaminophen or ibuprofen as "1 dose", saying a vitamin D dose by voice with no signal after other doses that day, tapping the same dose twice within 10 minutes, or logging a first bite before signing up.Observed impact: None found for ibuprofen or vitamin D. We checked every dose families have logged: none is ibuprofen, no medicine reminder names plain ibuprofen, and no day of vitamin D goes over the daily limit. We also checked every acetaminophen dose, every reaction and every medicine logged twice within 10 minutes, and what we found was all in our own family's log: five acetaminophen doses from September 1 to 9 saved as "1 dose" with no amount, a reaction from August 5 with no severity saved, and one pair of gas drops on August 9.Action needed: Nothing. Everything these checks found was in our own family's log.
Ibuprofen comes as infant drops and as children's liquid, at different strengths, so the app asks which one before it saves an ibuprofen dose. Today's "Log again", a reminder's "Log now", a reminder saved as plain ibuprofen, and voice ("a dose of Motrin", "50 milligrams of Advil") skipped that question. Each one now asks first, and a reminder for ibuprofen names which one. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are never saved as "1 dose" or a dropper any more: every way of logging or changing them asks for the amount in mL or mg, and a repeat of an old "1 dose" asks for it under the button. With no connection, a vitamin D dose said by voice now counts the doses this phone has already seen that day before it saves. Tapping the same medicine again within 10 minutes asks whether it is the same dose before it logs another. And the page for logging a first bite before you sign up picks no face for you, and marking a reaction there shows the same choices and what-to-do note as the app, and saves how bad it was.
Why: A dose saved without its product or its amount cannot be checked against the label, so the next one could look fine when it is not. A reaction logged without its note left a parent without the steps to take.
- In Plus: fix a growth measurement in place, and log a planned meal with its details
On the checkup report, the date for the doctor's numbers starts on the visit you saved while the app is asking for that visit's numbers, instead of today. Tap a saved measurement to change it right there; saving, changing or deleting one has an Undo, and one you remove can be brought back from Settings. In the allergen plan, "â Log it" saves the meal at the moment you tap it and opens its details right under the plan: how it went, how much, a reaction with its note, a photo and an earlier time, each one tap, with Undo. A reaction's warning shows the moment you tap it.
Why: A typo meant deleting the measurement and typing the whole visit in again, and a planned meal's time, amount and reaction had to be fixed from Today afterwards.
- A payment that does not go through now tells you
When a payment for your subscription did not go through, nothing told you, and the first sign could be the subscription ending. Now an email comes that day, and Today shows a line about it until it is fixed. Tap the â to hide the line for the day. If the payment never goes through and the subscription ends, a second email says so. Nothing you have logged is affected, and none of it is deleted.
Why: A card can be declined for all sorts of reasons, and you should hear about it right away.
- Saying a weight no longer logs a bottle
Holding the Log button and saying something like "she weighed 14 pounds 3 ounces at the doctor" or "he gained 6 ounces this week" saved a 3 or 6 ounce bottle. A weight is not a feed now, so nothing is logged and the app says it did not catch a feed. A bottle said with a weight nearby, like "she had 4 ounces and gained weight", still logs.
Why: Ounces mean milk only when the sentence is about a feed. A bottle that never happened throws off the feed count and the formula and milk left.
- Your own currency, and "1 day", not "1 days"
Money now shows in your own currency wherever the app shows an amount. Outside the US, a saving, a gift card or a total could read in dollars beside a price in pounds or euros, and savings in two currencies were added into one figure. Formula is priced at US stores, so formula prices now show only in the US. Counts read right too: "about 1 day left", "1 more food", "1 day a week" and "2 nights", never "1 days" or "2 night". Twins and triplets count as one birth when their birthdays are within 30 days, which is what the app has always checked, and a few screens said "within a month". And a guest is told the account is deleted 30 days after it starts, which is when it always went, not "when it goes quiet".
Why: Each of these screens wrote its own money and its own plurals, and a few had drifted from what the app actually does. Each now follows one rule.
- Undo waits for the connection
If the connection dropped just as you tapped Undo on a feed, diaper, sleep, dose, temperature or activity, the Undo said it failed and the entry stayed deleted. Now the entry waits on your phone and goes back as soon as the connection does, the way a bite already did. It goes back as the same entry, so it can never come back twice.
Why: Undo is how you fix a slip, and it should not depend on having signal at that exact moment.
- Ages, dates and voice setup, kept straight
A baby under 3 months now reads in days, then weeks, everywhere the app says an age. Some pages said "0 months old" for a 3-week-old. The 2-month checkup for a baby born on the 31st now lands on the last day of a shorter month, not in the first days of the next one. The Solids list names a day from this week the way Feeds, Diapers and Sleep do. A few "last 7 days" counts no longer start a day early or late in the hour around midnight after a clock change. If SoundBites cannot finish its one-time download, it now says so and asks you to check your connection, and a download cut off partway starts over on the next try. Before, voice kept failing until the app was reopened. Its voice engine now comes from our own site, so the voice model is the only download from anywhere else.
Why: Each of these did its own date math, and each had its own small way of being a day off. They now share one set of rules.
- Two phones, one baby: counts, stashes and deletesHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Two phones logging the same bottle, diaper change or activity under a minute apart, a bottle logged with no signal and deleted on the other phone before it sent, an allergen from another app answered No reaction and then a new food with it, or Undo on a nap still running.Observed impact: None found. We checked: no imported history has an allergen answered No reaction yet, and no two caregivers have logged the same bottle or diaper less than a minute apart across a minute boundary.Action needed: Nothing. Counts, stashes and the allergen tracker were already right for every family.
When you and another caregiver log the same bottle, diaper change or activity within 60 seconds of each other, every count reads it once, even when the two taps fall either side of the minute (8:59:58 and 9:00:03 used to count twice). The formula and breast milk on hand now take that bottle out once, not twice, and the running-low reminder agrees with the app. A bottle logged with no signal and then deleted on the other phone before yours finished sending it now stays deleted, instead of coming back. If peanut came over from another app and you told us it went fine, a new peanut food you try here now shows as a new form of peanut, and peanut stays introduced. And Undo on a nap that is still running keeps its "still asleep?" check-in.
Why: Each of these turned up when we tested two phones logging for one baby, and each could make a count, the stash or the allergen tracker say something that was not true.
- Entries saved with no signal stay with your account
Entries you log with no signal wait on your phone until they can sync. They now belong to the account that logged them: if someone else signs in on the same phone or tablet, your entries wait for you and are never sent under their name. If you sign out while some have not synced yet, the app first tells you how many, so you can stay signed in until they go. Signing out with no signal now tells you it could not finish, instead of clearing things and leaving you signed in. A Wake up tapped offline now ends the nap on every phone even before the health information box is ticked, a pump you deleted right after it synced no longer stays, and a second browser tab stops listing entries as waiting once they have synced.
Why: The waiting entries belonged to the phone, not the person. On a shared tablet, the next person to sign in sent them as their own.
- In Plus: restock radar prices follow the same rules as the price cards
On the Savings page, the restock radar's cheapest price now works the way the diaper and formula price cards do. When Amazon is cheapest, it says so and sends you to Amazon for the live price instead of showing a number. A price we have not checked lately says when it was checked and that it may have changed. Prices are in your own currency, and the radar shows a formula price only for a baby set to the United States, since formula prices come from US stores.
Why: The radar showed the cheapest price on its own terms: Amazon's number, which Amazon allows only from its own price feed, a dollar sign on formula wherever you live, and no word when a price was days old.
- Invites now need a saved account
If you open an invite while you are trying YummyYucky as a guest, we now ask you to save your account first. We keep the code, and you join the baby as soon as your account is saved, with no need to find the link again. An email invite now goes to exactly one address, and a very long baby name is shortened in its subject line.
Why: An invite code opens a baby's whole log, so it should take a real account to use one, the same as sending an invite or redeeming a gift. And an invite goes out from our address, so it should only ever reach the one person you meant.
- An invite now waits for you to say yesHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Someone inviting your email address, and you then signing in or opening the app with an account on that address before the invite ran out. The app added you to their baby without asking.Observed impact: None found. We checked every invite by email that has been accepted: apart from our own test accounts, each person made their account after the invite arrived, the ordinary way in, and nobody was added to a baby unasked.Action needed: Nothing. From now on an invite waits for you to tap Join.
When somebody invites you by email, you now see a card at the top of Today with who invited you and which baby, and two buttons: Join and Not me. Nothing changes until you tap Join. Not me puts the card away for good, and the person who sent it is not told. Until now, an invite to your email address added you to that baby the next time you signed in, without asking. Invite codes, and the button in the invite email, work as before, since using one is already your yes.
Why: Joining a family is your choice to make. Being added without a word also showed the person who sent the invite your name, and that your email address has an account here, before you had decided anything.
- A food you named in the plural counts its allergensHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: A food of your own named as the plural of a library food, like "Eggs", "Shrimps" or "Ackees", or saved as the singular of one the library names in the plural, like "Clam". Foods picked from our library were not affected.Observed impact: None found. We checked every food a family has added under its own name and every bite saved by name alone: none was the plural of a library food with an allergen or a safety warning, or the singular of one our library names in the plural, like "Clam" or "Olive".Action needed: Nothing. From now on a food named in the plural or the singular counts its allergens and shows its warnings.
If you added a food of your own under the plural of a food in our library, like "Eggs", "Shrimps" or "Bagels", logging it counted no egg, shellfish or wheat: not on the plate, in the allergen tracker, the watch after a first taste or the reaction history. Logging one named "Ackees", "Cassavas" or "Hard candies" could leave off the safety warning Ackee, Cassava and Hard candy get. Now a plural is the library food it names, with its allergens and its warnings, wherever it is logged. It works the other way too: a food our library names in the plural, like Clams, Olives or Sardines, now answers to "Clam", "Olive" or "Sardine". The shared sitter link, the count of the 9 on Today and the allergen rotation reminders read names the same way, so they agree with what you see in the app. Adding a food in the Foods tab also works the way it does by voice: when the name is already in our library, singular or plural, it shows you that food instead of making a copy.
Why: The app reads a food's name in several places, and only some of them knew that "Eggs" is egg. The ones that did not were the ones that count allergens and show the safety warnings.
- Fixes to this weekâs logging changes
We went back over this week's changes on a phone, offline and across a clock change, and fixed what we found. Solids no longer closes the log sheet over the next bite you have already started, or over a reaction you are writing down. The photo or video on a deleted bite now stays for the 7 days Recently deleted keeps the bite, so Restore brings it back too, and a food you take out of a meal while editing it now goes to Recently deleted as well. Tapping Restore again after a dropped connection no longer adds the entry twice. A feed, diaper, sleep, medicine or temperature logged without a connection shows on Today as soon as it syncs, and a past sleep you add shows there right away. Every urgent health alert above the log buttons now shows, none tucked behind "more heads-ups". While you are expecting, Getting ready comes before the log buttons. The quick times for an earlier entry ("1h ago" and the rest) now save the right time in the hour that repeats the night the clocks go back. And the guest sign-out warning and the invite card no longer name a button that may not be on screen.
Why: Each of these was a place where the app did something other than what it said, or what you would expect half asleep. The clock change is close: in the US the clocks go back early on Sunday, November 1.
- Safer ages for corn, wild rice and cocoaHow we found it: Checking our advice against the published guidance.What it took: Following our pages for a child under 4: loose corn kernels after the first birthday, a corn cob to gnaw from 9 months, whole cooked wild rice from 12 months, or a dusting of cocoa in champorado before age 2.Observed impact: None found in YummyYucky. We checked every food logged: nobody has logged hominy, humita, pozole, samp, wild rice or champorado here, and the only corn on record came in with a history imported from another app.Action needed: If your child is under 4, serve corn kernels and wild rice mashed, flattened or cut fine, skip the corn cob, and save cocoa for after age 2. If you served them the old way, there is nothing to undo; serve them the new way from here.
The corn page used to ease whole corn kernels in after the first birthday. Now they stay mashed, pressed flat or chopped fine until about age 4, like barley and the other whole grains, and the same goes for hominy, pozole, humita, samp and wild rice. Corn on the cob waits until about 4 too, since gnawing a cob pulls whole kernels loose. Champorado's cards for babies used to suggest a little cocoa. Cocoa now waits until after age 2, like chocolate, and a little carob powder gives the same dark color with no caffeine.
Why: The USDA lists whole corn kernels and whole grain kernels among the common choking foods for children under 4. Cocoa carries caffeine even when it is unsweetened, and there is no established safe amount of caffeine for young children.
- Logging something from earlier takes fewer taps
Wherever you can set an earlier time on feeds, sleep, doses, activities and temperatures ("Happened earlier?", "Given earlier?" and the like), there are now four quick times under the link: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour and 2 hours ago. One tap sets the time, and the time field opens with it so you can nudge it. Then tap Log as usual, so most earlier entries take two taps. On diapers the quick times are under "Add detail", where you also pick Wet, Dirty or Both before you log it.
Why: About one entry in four is logged after the fact, usually within a couple of hours. Picking a date and a time on a phone at 3 AM took up to eleven taps.
- The log buttons come first on Today
On Today, the buttons you tap most (Wet, Dirty, start a nap, repeat the last bottle) now sit right under your baby's name. Only an urgent health alert, like a fever in a young baby, comes before them. The rest moved below them or waits until it matters: the checkup reminder shows in the last 7 days before the visit, the welcome for a new baby is one line you can tap to read in full, the reminder to save a guest account is one line after you have seen it once and comes back in full as the deletion date gets close, and the suggestion to get the app waits until your second visit.
Why: A new parent opens the app half asleep with one hand free. On a newbornâs first day those buttons sat below the bottom of the screen, under four other cards, so logging a diaper meant scrolling first.
- Deleted something by mistake? You can get it back
When you delete a feed, diaper, sleep, activity, dose, temperature or bite, it now goes to Recently deleted in Settings, where it is kept on this phone for 7 days. Tap Restore and it goes back where it was, with everything it had. Editing a feed, diaper, sleep or activity now says it saved, too, with an Undo that puts back what you changed.
Why: The Undo after a delete lasts 6 seconds, and half asleep you do not always notice in time. The copies stay on your phone only, and signing out clears them.
- Logging takes fewer taps
The log sheet now closes once you log something new, and the toast with Undo stays on screen in case it was a mis-tap. Each tab keeps its Log button at the bottom of the sheet, where your thumb already is, and the sheet stays the same height as you switch tabs. In Diapers, tapping Wet, Dirty or Both logs it right away, just like the buttons on Today, and "Add detail" still opens the full form for an earlier time, a blowout, the color or a note. Starting a sleep from the sheet now shows a toast with Undo too. A bath, toothbrushing or a nail trim logs in one tap. The sheet opens on the tab you last logged on, and Solids stays out of the row until your baby is 4 months old. Solids still waits for you to tap Log, on purpose, so you can mark a reaction before the bite is saved.
Why: Most logging happens at night with a baby on one arm. Every extra tap, and every hunt for a button, is one more thing between you and sleep.
- Five fixes from a night of logging one-handed
We used the app the way a tired parent does at 3 AM and fixed what got in the way. Signing out of a guest account now warns you first, because a guest has no email or password to come back with and the log would be lost. The bottle remembers formula when that is what you logged, instead of switching back to breast milk. In the Android app, the back button now closes the log sheet first, instead of leaving the page behind it or closing the app. A guest who tries to invite someone is told to save the account first, instead of being sent to an inbox they do not have. And the menu on a food card no longer runs off the edge of the screen.
Why: Most logging happens half asleep with one hand free. Every one of these cost a tap, a wrong entry, or in one case the whole log.
- The guides are sorted by your babyâs age
The guides page now runs in order, from getting ready for the baby through the newborn weeks, 2 to 5 months, starting solids and 9 to 12 months, to the toddler and preschool years. Each stage opens with a line on what matters then, and the links at the top jump straight to yours. Every guide is still there, once, under the stage where you would look for it first.
Why: The page still said "from day one to solids", but the guides now go on to bottle weaning, potty training and dry nights. The app changes as your baby grows, and the guides should read the same way.
- Your baby's age in days stays right when the clocks change
Your baby's age in days, and how many days since a food was last offered, now count calendar days. In the hour after midnight on a night the clocks had changed since birth, the age could read one day off, which moved the newborn diaper and bottle guidance a day early or late, and a food eaten two days ago could read as yesterday.
Why: A day count is something you trust without checking. It should never depend on the clocks.
- Past the newborn weeks, Today shows what else is here
When your baby is 11 weeks old, the card on Today that says solids are coming up makes way for one about the months before solids: feeds and sleep week to week on Trends, the next nap window, tummy time and play on the Activity tab, pumping and the milk stash, the handoff screen for a sitter or daycare, the CDC milestone checklist, and the signs of readiness for solids, which usually start around 6 months. It shows for 18 days from then, or until you close it, for you and anyone you added as a guardian.
Why: Between the newborn weeks and solids, Today kept showing the same newborn day, and much of what the app does for those months was easy to miss.
- The first foods checklist is now a short starter list
The free printable first foods checklist used to list every food we tag as a first food, ostrich, kangaroo and yuzu included. Now it is a starter list for around 6 months: iron-rich foods, the big 9 allergens each in a form that is safe to start with, everyday vegetables and fruits, and grains, with family staples like congee, moong dal and plantain. Each food links to its guide, and the rest of the food guides are one tap away.
Why: A parent with a six-month-old wants to know where to start. The long list mixed everyday foods with ostrich and kangaroo, and the everyday ones got lost.
- Two phones and the clock changes, kept straight
If you tap Wake up with no signal and the other parent has already woken the baby, or fixed the wake-up time since, their time now stays when your phone catches up. A Wake up waiting for signal also shows in the waiting-to-sync list on Today, like everything else you log offline. When the other parent logs a feed, the Fed chip and Last fed show it right away, even if your phone's clock runs a little behind theirs. And the night after the clocks go forward is one night again on the sleep card, with its longest stretch counted whole.
Why: Two phones logging one baby, and the nights the clocks change, are when a log is most likely to disagree with itself. These were the places it did.
- Correction: grains for toddlers, frozen berries, dried fruit and greens
The last batch of this week's review. Whole grain kernels stay mashed until about age 4. Store-bought frozen berries are boiled for a minute before a baby eats them. Dried fruit is simmered soft, with no uncooked pieces until about age 4. Finely grated raw apple and Asian pear are fine from 6 months; thin raw slices wait until 12 months. Spinach and Swiss chard make up only a small part of a baby's puree before 12 months, and cooked greens are eaten the same day or frozen. Tortilla chips and veggie straws are broken small and softened until about age 4, hemp seeds are ground, and tostones and periwinkle wait until about age 2. Smoothies are a spoon food before 12 months, and oat and coconut milk are an occasional extra in the cup after 12 months, not your child's main milk.
Why: Where the agencies we follow disagree, we picked the cautious answer and said so on the page.
- Correction: quail, duck and goose eggs no longer count as egg, and ham, cornflakes and cornbread wait until 12 months
Quail, duck and goose eggs are eggs, but an allergy to one and to hen's egg overlaps only partly, so a baby who does well with one has not met the other. Logging one no longer counts as your baby's egg introduction or starts the egg watch, so introduce hen's egg on its own as well. They still count for safety: if your baby reacts to one, the allergen tracker holds egg, and while egg is on hold the app holds them too. Three foods now come in two versions in the food list, so the tracker counts only what your baby had: Atole with water has no milk, while Masa porridge (atole) still counts as milk; Vegan kimchi has no fish or shellfish; and plain dhokla, made from gram flour, has no wheat, while Rava dhokla counts wheat and milk. Ham now waits until about 12 months, like bacon, deli meat and hot dogs, because of the salt. Plain cornflakes are salty and carry added sugar, and most cornbread carries added sugar, so both are now an occasional taste from about 12 months. Waffles stay at 6 months: a plain frozen one now and then is fine, and the flavored kinds wait.
Why: A first egg logged as a quail egg told the tracker your baby had met hen's egg, and a water atole or a seafood-free kimchi told it about milk or shellfish your baby never had. A first introduction is worth getting right, and so is a reaction.
- Every fish, shellfish, egg dish, pork and game page gives a cooking temperature
Where US and Canadian food safety agencies give different numbers for the same food, we now use the higher, more cautious one, from Health Canada: fish to 158°F (70°C), shellfish and egg dishes to 165°F (74°C), pork to 160°F (71°C) and game to 165°F (74°C). Beef, lamb and veal steaks and roasts stay at 145°F (63°C), ground meat at 160°F (71°C) and poultry at 165°F (74°C). Seventy-two fish and shellfish pages gave no temperature at all before; now every one does, in the safety section and the first cooking card.
Why: A thermometer number is the one check a tired parent can trust, and when two health agencies disagree, a baby should get the cautious one.
- Correction: no added salt, honey, allergen tags and sources
The third batch of this week's review. Pages for babies under 12 months no longer suggest lightly salted cooking; babies need no added salt. Honey before 12 months reads 'do not give', not 'not recommended'. Lasagna now counts as egg in the allergen tracker, since about half of store-bought lasagnas contain it; champurrado counts as soy and candy corn as egg. The pancakes page no longer suggests trying a food again after a reaction without your pediatrician. Tagine says to take the nuts off a child's plate until age 5. And dozens of pages now cite a source that says what the sentence says.
Why: An allergen the tracker misses is a reaction you cannot trace, and a citation that does not back its sentence is not a source.
- Correction: choking first aid, cutting shapes, hunted game and fish
The second batch of this week's review. Pages that mention choking give the first-aid steps before the emergency call, and none suggests sweeping a baby's mouth with a finger. Tater tots, sausages and firm cheeses are cut the way our hot dog and string cheese pages already cut them. Puffs start around 9 months. Pheasant, elk and other hunted game say that lead fragments are too small to see or pick out, so choose meat not shot with lead, and elk explains chronic wasting disease. Fish pages no longer say a young child can have a 'Good Choices' fish every week, which the FDA's advice for children does not say. And the never-serve food pages say 'by age, and what to offer instead' rather than 'how to prepare'.
Why: Choking first aid and lead are the two places where a page that is almost right is not good enough.
- Correction: whole grains, beans, raw vegetables and berries
We re-read 271 food pages against their sources this week, and a second set of reviewers checked every finding before anything changed. This first batch: barley, freekeh and other whole grains are mashed so no whole kernels are left for a baby. Every dried kidney-family bean page says to soak the beans at least 5 hours and boil them at least 30 minutes, never in a slow cooker, and whole beans stay flattened until about age 4. Rinsing rice is no longer described as lowering arsenic; cooking it in plenty of water and draining it does. Raw daikon, kohlrabi and celery now wait until the ages their pages and our radish rule give. Raspberries and cherries are flattened or quartered, never whole. Oat and soy milk are for cooking before 12 months, not a drink in a cup. And the dates page no longer offers strips.
Why: A few pages said something their own sources did not, and some put a choking hazard on the tray. Safety pages have to be right.
- "Pop" asks which one you mean
Say or type "pop" and the logger now offers both Cornmeal porridge and Soda, and you pick. Said to the mic, it shows up on the "Check what I heard" card with neither one ticked.
Why: In Jamaica and much of the Caribbean, pop is cornmeal porridge. In much of the Midwest and Canada, it is soda. Voice always logged the porridge, which is often made with milk, so a sip of soda could mark milk as introduced.
- Tap anywhere on a date or time to change it
When you set a feed, change, nap or anything else to an earlier time, a tap anywhere on the date or the time opens the calendar or the clock again, the way it used to. The same goes for every date and time in the app.
Why: A recent Android update changed how these fields work: a tap picked out the part of the date you touched for typing, and only the tiny calendar or clock icon opened the picker. That's a fiddly target at 3 AM with a baby on one arm.
- Correction: cookies wait until age 2, and rice teething wafers and rye crispbread no longer count as wheat
The last batch of our food page review found these. Our cookies page said a small cookie was fine from about 12 months, while our raw cookie dough page said a baked cookie was not something to offer on purpose. Both now say the same thing: cookies are an added-sugar food, so they wait until age 2, and the 2025 to 2030 Dietary Guidelines say to avoid added sugars through age 4. The cookies page also no longer suggests a teething biscuit for babies under 12 months; a lightly toasted strip of bread or a ripe banana does that job. Rice teething wafers and all-rye crispbread are now their own foods in the food list, with no wheat, so logging one no longer counts as your baby's wheat introduction. Plain teething biscuits and crispbread still count as wheat, and both pages now say to check the label. A few more pages changed too: sushi before age 2 is a homemade roll with plain rice, since restaurant sushi rice has sugar in it; the red choking box on tteok and nian gao now says why they wait until about age 4, with sources; epazote starts at 6 months as a pinch, like other herbs; trout and arctic char say to keep a fish that went well in the rotation; and the brie, mussels, soda, peanut, pretzels and river prawn pages cite what they say.
Why: Two of our pages gave different answers to the same question, and a rice wafer logged as a teething biscuit told the allergen tracker your baby had had wheat when they had not. A first wheat introduction is worth getting right.
- Voice hears "a hundred and sixty"How we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging by voice and saying an amount with "a hundred" ("a hundred and sixty milligrams"), part of a teaspoon or dropper ("a quarter of a teaspoon"), or "a quarter of an hour ago". Amounts said as digits were read right.Observed impact: None found for the amounts. We checked every dose families have logged: none has the 60 milligrams or one teaspoon this misreading would save. The time misreading would save a dose as given an hour before it was logged; four doses from one day in September sit 55 to 56 minutes before, which looks typed rather than misheard, but our records cannot settle it.Action needed: If you logged a dose by voice before October 13 and its amount or time looks off, edit it. Those four doses are three weeks old, so they no longer move when the next one is due.
Voice now hears "a hundred and sixty milligrams" as 160, "a quarter of a teaspoon" as a quarter, "a quarter of an hour ago" as 15 minutes ago and "napped from 7 to 9 this morning" as the morning, and "the helmet hasn't come off yet" logs nothing and asks.
Why: It heard "a hundred and sixty milligrams" as 60 and "a quarter of a teaspoon" as a whole teaspoon, so a dose was saved as less or more than was given, and it heard "a quarter of an hour ago" as an hour ago, which made the next dose look due 45 minutes early.
- Recent bites stay put, and a food by any of its names
If the connection dropped right after you logged a bite, Recent bites could go blank and the "still watching" heads-up could disappear. Now both stay as they were. A food added under another of its names now counts as that food: "ethiopian mince" gets Kitfo's raw beef warning when you log it, and "groundnut stew" carries Maafe's peanut when the app picks what to suggest. A feed or a sleep logged offline can be edited after a day, as it could already be deleted. And the juice guide's serving cards now say pasteurized, as the rest of the page does.
Why: A safety note should never depend on which name you typed, and a dropped connection should not wipe what you were looking at.
- Smaller iPhone and Android apps
This is version 1.0.6 of the iPhone and Android apps, from the App Store and Google Play. The apps always load YummyYucky fresh from the web, yet each one also carried a full copy of the website that it never showed. That copy is gone, so the apps are a much smaller download and take less room on your phone, and they work as before. In the Android app, opening a page that no longer exists now shows our own "Nothing on this plate" page with a way back home. It used to say the app could not reach YummyYucky, as if your signal had dropped.
Why: A smaller app downloads faster and leaves more room on your phone. And a "cannot reach us" page for a page that has simply moved sent people checking their Wi-Fi for nothing.
- Badges for the rest of the day
Your baby's page has a Badges card now, for more than food: the first entry, 100 diaper changes, the first activity, a second person logging with you, the first entry by voice, a food that went from a no to a yes, the first tick on the CDC checklist, and shot days, at 1, 3 and 5 days with a vaccine logged. If your baby wears a helmet, an eye patch, hearing aids, a clubfoot brace or a hip harness or brace, there is one for its first 7 days, and, for all but hearing aids, one for the day the treatment is finished. Ending a treatment now asks "Is the treatment finished?" so the app knows which day that is. Each badge has its own drawing of the cartoon baby, and a new one gets the confetti on Today.
Why: Most of a baby's day is not food, and until now every badge was. A shot day is a rough day and an important one, and the first week with a helmet or a brace is worth marking too.
- Badges get the cartoon baby
When your baby earns a badge for logging, like the first bite, a run of foods or a streak of days, the celebration now shows the baby from our logo on a round medal drawn for that badge, where it used to show an emoji. Each badge has its own drawing. Sleep records and the start of solids keep their emoji.
Why: A first bite is a moment families want to remember, and a drawing made for it fits that moment better than a stock emoji.
- In Plus: the cartoon baby on the Flavor Explorer and Journey badges
The Flavor Explorer badges and the badges listed on Journey now show the same cartoon-baby medals as the celebration. A badge not earned yet stays faded and gray until it is.
Why: A badge should look the same wherever it shows.
- Gas drops no longer quiet Today, and the bedtime window comes from your own bedtimes
Gas drops (simethicone) and gripe water no longer put Today into sick-day mode. Like vitamins, they leave last night's line, the next-feed note and the next-nap card where they are, and they are still logged, checked and listed with your other doses as before. The evening bedtime window, from 8 months until age 3, now comes from your baby's own bedtimes: the ones logged in the past week, give or take 15 minutes. It no longer takes a range of night sleep for their age away from their wake-up time, and with fewer than 3 bedtimes logged it shows no window rather than a guess. When Today asks whether a feed in the night was not logged, it now compares last night with your baby's second-longest recent night instead of the longest, so one night with a feed nobody logged no longer switches the question off. The next-feed note starts at 8 weeks for everyone, and the switch that turned it on earlier is gone. And the badges for new foods and streaks cheer a little more warmly.
Why: A gassy week is not a sick week, and a bedtime or a question about the night should come from your own log, not from a range for an age or one odd night.
- In Plus: share last night on a sick day, and no longest gap before 8 weeks
On a morning when a fever or a dose has Today's night line quiet, you can still send last night as a text: the feeds with their clock times, the changes, and the doses and temperatures logged overnight, without the longest gap between feeds. Before 8 weeks old, the monthly letter, the Sunday recap and the first 100 days no longer name a longest gap between logged feeds, and they keep the counts. Today's line still shows last night's. The Sunday recap holds back a longest gap against your baby's second-longest recent night, as Today does, leaves gas drops and gripe water out of a sick week, and now opens with the days you logged: "Logged on 3 days: 4 feeds, 1 diaper and 2 sleeps." On Patterns, a drop in night feeds reads "Fewer night feeds lately", the diaper pace says "down from about 7 a day", the fiber note is shorter, and tries to a win says "Research says a new food often takes 8 to 10 or more tries."
Why: A sick night is when the person off duty most needs the times, and in the first weeks a longest gap is easy to misread in a letter or an email.
- A food search shows every match
Searching for a word that fits a lot of foods, like "beans", used to stop at eight results, so white beans and great northern beans never showed. Now you see the first eight, and "more" opens the rest.
Why: Every food in the library should be one search away.
- Plain first foods for allergens, a way to clear old milk, and a sensitivity on the visit glance
Todayâs bite now introduces each common allergen with one plain food, the first form our own guide for that allergen recommends: thinned peanut butter, hard-boiled egg, plain whole-milk yogurt, thinned almond butter, tofu, toast strips, flaked salmon, minced shrimp and thinned tahini. It used to pick the most familiar food carrying the allergen, which could be sushi for fish, or French toast for egg, milk and wheat at once. Sumac-ade is no longer suggested anywhere. In the milk stash, the red "past its use-by" line now has a "Used or tossed" tap that takes that milk out of the count, with Undo. Before solids, the visit glance shows a recorded sensitivity in one line, like "Recorded sensitivity: milk, through breast milk (avoiding for now)", and it counts Poly-Vi-Sol and Tri-Vi-Sol as vitamin D. To match, a dose logged with "Multivitamin (Poly-Vi-Sol)" on Meds, or said to the mic as Poly-Vi-Sol, is now saved as Poly-Vi-Sol. Doses saved earlier as "Multivitamin" stay as they are, since there is no telling which multivitamin they were. And Trends no longer shows the "Typical at this age" card: those ranges are in the guides, with their sources.
Why: A first taste of an allergen should be one food with one allergen in it, so if there is a reaction you know what caused it. Milk you already used or poured out should not sit in your stash. A sensitivity is worth bringing up at the newborn visits, and both of those multivitamin drops carry the same 400 IU of vitamin D as a vitamin D drop. And the app describes your baby rather than measuring them against an average.
- In Plus: the checkup report drops green from diaper notes and shows the CDC checklist again
The checkup report no longer lists a green stool as a diaper note on its own, since our stool guides say green is almost always normal. A green stool with blood, mucus, a note, or a hard or watery texture still makes the list. The CDC checklist items you ticked are back on the report, with this under them: "If your baby was born more than 3 weeks early, use their corrected age (counted from your due date)." Poly-Vi-Sol and Tri-Vi-Sol count as vitamin D on the report too.
Why: The page you hand your pediatrician should flag the stool colors worth a call, not every green diaper. And the CDC asks for corrected age when a baby came more than 3 weeks early, so the report says so beside the list.
- A guide to the Pavlik harness and hip brace
New in Learn: "Pavlik harness and hip brace care: the wear schedule and daily life." It covers how long the harness or brace is worn, with what each program publishes side by side, the first days, the skin and kick checks, diapers, clothes, baths, cleaning, sleep, holding and feeding, car seats and carriers, gear to ask about, what to bring to appointments, when to call, and what happens when it ends. It is built from the handouts of childrenâs hospitals in the US, Canada and Australia and NHS hospitals in the UK, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the International Hip Dysplasia Institute and a UK parentsâ charity, and where they disagree, it says so.
Why: Programs differ on whether the harness can come off for a bath, what goes under it, and how treatment ends. This puts what each one tells families in one place, with the source for each.
- A Pavlik harness or hip brace, for babies with hip dysplasia
If your baby wears a Pavlik harness or an abduction brace for hip dysplasia, you can now keep track of it here. Turn it on under Care extras on your baby's page: pick the harness or the brace, then the plan your team gave you. Many teams keep the harness on day and night at first, even for baths. If that's your plan, there's nothing to tap when it comes off: the card on Today counts the days in the harness and keeps your daily checks, with a small "It came off" for the rare time it does. If your plan has time out for the bath or a set time off each day, the card shows whether it's on and today's hours against your team's goal, with one button. If it's only for sleep, the card leads with yesterday's hours. Every day there's a quick kick check (both legs kicking and straightening at the knee), and if you answer No, the card tells you at once to call your team. There's a skin check one tap away, with a photo if you like, a tick for the straps after a bath or a clothes change, and cleaning and liner ticks for a brace. When the team changes the plan, save it with its date, and the days before keep the plan they had. The hip page has the history a day at a time, weekly totals, a step-down plan if you have one, and what children's hospitals say about daily care and when to call. Voice works too: "harness off for the bath", "harness on", or "brace on". It works offline, everyone logging for your baby sees the same thing, and it's free. If you don't turn it on, you won't see any of it.
Why: A harness or brace for hip dysplasia is often worn day and night for weeks, then stepped down when the team says, after a scan. Between visits there are daily checks to keep: the skin in the folds, both legs kicking, the straps on their marks. Keeping that across two parents and a sitter is a lot to hold in your head. Now the app keeps it, ready for the next visit.
- A guide to the clubfoot brace (boots and bar)
New in Learn: "Clubfoot boots and bar: the wear schedule and daily care." It covers how many hours and for how long, with the published step-down schedules side by side, the first week, putting the brace on, skin checks, sleep and bedtime, car seats and high chairs, clothes and the bath, daycare and family, older toddlers who resist, when to call, what to bring to appointments, and what happens when the brace ends. It is built from the handouts of childrenâs hospitals and the Ponseti International Association in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and where they disagree, it says so.
Why: The brace goes on the day the last cast comes off, and it is worn for years. This puts what the teams tell families in one place, with the source for each.
- Clubfoot brace time, from full time to nights and naps
If your baby wears a clubfoot brace (the boots and bar after Ponseti casting), you can now keep track of it here. Turn it on under Care extras on your baby's page: say whether the brace is on full time or for nights and naps, check the hours a day (23 to start, or 12 for nights and naps, and your orthopedic team's number wins), and pick a step-down plan if you like, one a hospital publishes or your team's own. A card on Today shows whether the brace is on, with one button for "Brace on" and "Brace off". In full time it shows today's hours against the goal, and while the brace is off for the bath, a skin check is one tap away. In nights and naps it leads with yesterday's hours, because the brace is meant to be off most of the day. Time asleep counts. The clubfoot brace page has the history a day at a time and weekly totals, each day read against the goal it had, a skin check that notes which foot and where, with a photo if you like, and what children's hospitals say about daily care and when to call. Moving to nights and naps is one step, with its date, and the days before keep their goal. Voice works too: "brace on", "brace off", "boots on", or "brace was on from 7 to 11". It works offline, everyone logging for your baby sees the same thing, and it's free. If you don't turn it on, you won't see any of it.
Why: Clubfoot bracing runs for years and steps down along the way: about 23 hours a day for the first months, then nights and naps until about age 4 or 5, and each program publishes its schedule a little differently. Keeping track of the step you are on, the hours each day and the skin checks across two parents and a sitter is a lot to hold. Now the app keeps it, ready for the next visit.
- A guide to hearing aids for babies and toddlers
New in Learn: "Baby hearing aids: keeping them in, and daily care." It covers the hours and the first weeks, keeping the aids in, feeding and lying down, the morning check, cleaning and drying, batteries and small parts, sleep, water, the car and outings, daycare and family, comments from other people, when to call, what to bring to appointments, and new earmolds as ears grow. It is built from the handouts of childrenâs hospitals, audiology services and deaf childrenâs charities in the US, the UK and Australia, and where they disagree, it says so.
Why: The fitting appointment covers a lot at once, and the questions start at home the next morning. This puts the answers audiologists and families give in one place, with the source for each.
- Hearing aid time, for babies and toddlers who wear them
If your child wears hearing aids, you can now keep track of them here. Turn it on under Care extras on your child's page: pick which ears, check the hours a day (the goal is all waking hours, often about 10), and say whether the batteries are disposable or rechargeable. A card on Today shows whether the aids are in, the hours so far against today's goal, and one button for "Aids in" and "Aids out". When they come out, you can tap why (a nap, the bath, the car, pulled out and more), so you and your audiologist can see the pattern. There's a morning hearing aid check to tick, with what to check, and a "dried and put away" tick at bedtime. Time during a nap or night sleep you've logged isn't counted, because the goal is about waking hours. The hearing aids page has the history a day at a time, weekly totals with why they came out, an ear check with a photo if you like, earmold washing and battery changes, and what audiologists and children's hospitals say about daily care and when to call. A build-up for the first weeks is on to start with, based on Success For Kids With Hearing Loss, or build your own, or turn it off. Voice works too: "hearing aids in", "aids out for a nap", "aids were in from 8 to 11", or "did the hearing aid check". It works offline, everyone logging for your child sees the same thing, and it's free. If you don't turn it on, you won't see any of it.
Why: Audiologists aim for hearing aids in during all waking hours, and the aids keep their own log of hours that the audiologist reads at visits. What that log can't show is when the aids came out and why. Now the app keeps that picture for you, on every caregiver's phone, ready for the next visit.
- A guide to patching for a lazy eye
New in Learn: "Lazy eye patching: tips for babies and toddlers." It covers the hours and the first days, keeping the patch on, sore skin, glasses, sleep, staying safe with one eye covered, daycare and grandparents, comments from other children, when to call the eye team, what to bring to appointments, and what happens when the plan changes or ends. It is built from the patching handouts of childrenâs hospitals and eye services in the US, Canada and the UK, and where they disagree, it says so.
Why: The handout from the eye clinic covers the basics, and the questions start on day two. This puts the answers that eye teams give in one place, with the source for each.
- Eye patch time, for children patching for a lazy eye
If your child wears an eye patch for amblyopia (lazy eye), you can now keep track of it here. Turn it on under Care extras on your child's page: pick which eye, type the hours a day your eye team gave you, and say whether your child wears glasses. A card on Today shows whether the patch is on, the hours so far against today's goal, and one button for "Patch on" and "Patch off". Time during a nap or night sleep you've logged isn't counted, because only awake time counts. The eye patch page has the history a day at a time, weekly totals ready to show at a visit, a skin check with a photo if you like, and what eye teams say about daily care and when to call. When the eye team changes the hours, the days before keep the goal they had. There's an optional build-up based on Newcastle Hospitals' example, if your eye team suggests one. Voice works too: "patch on", "patch off", or "patch was on from 9 to 11". It works offline, everyone logging for your child sees the same thing, and it's free. If you don't turn it on, you won't see any of it.
Why: Eye teams ask how many hours the patch was on, and some ask for a patching diary with a total for each week. Adding that up around naps, daycare and two parents is hard. Now the app keeps the count, and the weekly totals are ready when you need them.
- In Plus: a co-parent can switch off any sitter link
Anyone you added as a guardian, like a co-parent, now sees every live sitter link for your baby and who made it, and can revoke any of them. Only the person who made a link can copy it.
Why: Switching off a link is a safety step either parent should be able to take. A copy works like a key, so only the person who made the link holds one.
- Helmet history, and helmet times that already happened
The helmet now takes a time that already happened, the way every other log does. On Today, tap "Came off earlier?" or "Back on earlier?" above the button and set the time. The helmet page has a history too, like Today's: step back a day at a time, or pick a date, all the way to the first day in the helmet, and see that day's hours, the times it was off, the cleanings and the skin checks. Tap any of them to fix its time, add a time it was off or a time it was on to any day, or add an earlier cleaning or skin check. A time on can start before you turned the tracker on, so that first morning counts, and while the helmet is off, "On for a while earlier?" on Today fills in an hour on in the middle of a long break. Voice works too: "helmet came off at 2", "helmet was on from 2 to 3" or "cleaned the helmet this morning" logs at that time. The hours worn update at once, offline too, and everyone logging for your baby sees the change. Cleanings now come in two kinds: tick "Cleaned today" for the daily clean, or tap "Deep clean" beside it, and the helmet page shows your last deep clean, with an optional deep cleans a week goal in the settings if your clinic gives you one.
Why: The helmet often comes off in a hurry, for a bath or a fussy moment, and logging it waits. Now the hours stay accurate when you log it later, and the whole treatment is there to look back on.
- A guide to daily life with a baby helmet
New in Learn: "Life with a baby helmet: the day-to-day." It covers the hours and the break-in days, cleaning, skin checks and when to call, sleep, heat, car seats, stickers, comments from strangers, what to bring to adjustment visits, and when treatment ends. It is built from the care handouts of childrenâs hospitals and helmet clinics, and where they disagree, it says so.
Why: Each clinic hands out its own instructions, and they do not all agree. This puts them side by side, so you know what to ask your orthotist.
- Today now welcomes every new baby
When your baby is here, Today says welcome however you saved the birthday: when you add a baby who is already born, when you change a due date to the real birthday in Manage baby, or from the question that asks whether your baby has arrived. It shows once on your phone, and once on the phone of anyone you added as a guardian, during your baby's first 14 days. It stays for 24 hours or until you close it.
Why: It used to show only on the phone where the arrival question was answered, so a family who added their baby after the birth never saw it.
- Helmet wear time, for babies in helmet therapy
If your baby wears a helmet (a cranial orthosis), you can now keep track of it here. Turn it on under Care extras on your baby's page and set the daily goal your orthotist gave you. A card on Today then shows whether the helmet is on, how many hours it has been worn today, and one button for when it comes off and goes back on. For the first days, pick a clinic's published break-in schedule or enter your orthotist's, and Today shows each day's step. Tick it when it's cleaned, log a quick skin check with a photo if you like, and see the last 14 days on the helmet page. It works offline, everyone logging for your baby sees the same thing, and it's free. If you don't turn it on, you won't see any of it.
Why: When the orthotist asks how many hours the helmet was on, that's hard to add up in your head between baths, cleanings and naps. Now the app adds it up for you.
- Correction: food pages now agree with their sources on raw vegetable sticks, sardines, sweet treats and more
We settled some open food questions and corrected the pages to match. Raw sticks of hard vegetables, from jicama, radish and daikon to kohlrabi, celery, turnip, rutabaga, celeriac, parsnip, puntarelle, yacon and nagaimo, and raw snap pea pods, now wait until around age 4, like carrot sticks, which the AAP keeps from young children until then; before that, serve them cooked soft, finely grated or shaved paper-thin. Radish can start cooked soft at 6 months, with paper-thin raw shavings from 9. Sardines start at about 6 months, like other soft fish. Chestnut, pili nut, beechnut, hickory nut and candlenut are tree nuts the FDA does not list among the major allergens, so the pages no longer call them that, though we still treat them like one until you know your child handles tree nuts. Ice cream and maple syrup are an occasional small taste from about 12 months, and cake, applesauce, popsicles, atole and arazå now say added sugar is best avoided before age 2. Kalua pork is cooked to 145°F with a 3 minute rest everywhere, including the food list. Tortilla chips and fries are salted rather than very salty, and their pages now give the USDA numbers. The oat groats and rice cereal pages now say what to do if a baby has the delayed vomiting reaction called FPIES, including not offering that food again until your pediatrician says it is OK. Mochi waits until school age in the food list too, pike stays off the menu for babies and toddlers, and the yardlong bean page is now part of the long bean page, which answers to both names.
Why: Some pages disagreed with their own sources or with each other. Each one now says what its source says.
- Correction: allergen tags on 12 dishes, and the popcorn warning, now match their pages
We checked every food in our library against what its own page says. Twelve dishes whose pages say they usually contain a top allergen now carry it in the allergen tracker: meatballs (wheat, egg and milk), sabudana khichdi (peanut), shiro and genfo (milk, from the spiced butter), arroz caldo (fish, from fish sauce), pongal and maqluba (tree nuts), kimchi (fish and shellfish), moi moi (shellfish), biscuits and atole (milk) and croissants (egg). Bites of these you logged before count too. Logging popcorn now brings the same warning as marshmallows and hard candy, as its page always said. Porgy, sturgeon and tuna are described as moderate in mercury, matching our fish chart, and 21 foods the logger already warns about now show that warning on their page too.
Why: When you log a dish, the allergen tracker should count what is usually in it, and a warning should say the same thing wherever you meet it.
- Correction: fridge and freezer times on our food pages, checked against FoodSafety.gov
We checked the storage advice on our food pages against FoodSafety.govâs chart for homemade baby food, and many gave longer times than it does, often 3 to 4 days in the fridge and up to 3 months in the freezer. We are moving the food pages to the chart in batches, with the chart cited on each page: homemade baby food keeps 1 to 2 days in the fridge and 1 to 2 months in the freezer, and cooked meat and fish leftovers keep 1 day. No pageâs time was made longer.
Why: You write the date on the container so you know when to toss it, and that only helps if the number you count from is right. Where a page and the chart disagreed, the shorter, cited time won.
- Voice logging gets the details right
We ran a long list of real sentences through voice logging and fixed what it got wrong. "She drank 4 oz and ate banana" now logs the bottle and the banana. Two doses said at two times are two doses. Poly-Vi-Sol with Iron is one vitamin, not two medicines. "She was awake from 2 to 3" no longer logs a nap, "no poop yet" logs nothing, and a food in the same sentence, like white rice or black beans, no longer sets the color of a diaper. When something is unclear, like a nap with a start but no length, it asks instead of guessing.
Why: A wrong medicine, food or diaper color saved without a word is worse than one more tap, so when voice is unsure it asks.
- Reminders on time, and every entry counted once
A medicine reminder set for the last few minutes before midnight now arrives, and no reminder repeats because one of your phones could not be reached. The morning allergen nudge comes at most once a day for each baby, and the 6 PM "log a bite" nudge only goes to families whose baby is eating solids. When two of you log the same bottle, nap or diaper change, the Last 24 hours sheet and the running-low heads-up count it once. Renaming or removing a diaper in your stash no longer moves its changes onto your everyday pack.
Why: A reminder that repeats, or a total that doubles, teaches you to stop trusting it. These should be right without you checking.
- From a full review of the app
We read through the app end to end and tightened what we found. The one-tap repeat for a medicine now shows the same age caution as logging it fresh. A reaction narrowed to one food saves the severity you see, and the urgent guidance follows it. An allergen on your care plan no longer offers a first taste. Signing out removes that phone's notifications for your account. Importing from another app is safe to tap twice, and a Nara file saved again in Excel keeps its exact times. On this day memories on the Firsts page now show for everyone.
Why: We would rather find these ourselves than have you find them.
- In Plus: the Sunday recap counts a shared nap once, and sitter links end with access
When two of you log the same nap, the Sunday recap now counts it once. A care summary link you share with a sitter stops working once the person who made it no longer has access to your baby, and only the person who made a link can copy it again.
Why: A total that doubles is a total you stop trusting, and a link should never outlast the access it was made under.
- Log which diaper you used
If your diaper stash has more than one kind, like swim diapers or overnight diapers next to your everyday pack, the Diapers tab now asks which one each change used, right by Wet, Dirty and Both. It starts on the diaper your baby wears every day, so logging is still one tap, and you can fix it later by editing the change. Swim and overnight diapers now count down on their own, and the everyday pack's count takes off only the diapers that came out of it. A change logged from Today or by voice counts as the everyday diaper, as before. Until now every change came off the everyday pack, so a swim diaper used one up there and the swim stash stayed where it was until you typed a new count.
Why: A count is only useful when it takes off the diapers that really came out of that pack, and the swim stash should show how many swim diapers you really have.
- Your file stays put when you bring your history over on a phone
On the import page, opening the Terms or the Privacy Policy while you make your account, or a reload, no longer loses the file you loaded. It is still there when you come back, though you type your email and password again. A file that cannot be read, or a moment when we cannot load our food list, now gets a plain message instead of nothing. And on Android, the file picker no longer greys out a CSV that was saved as a different kind of file.
Why: On a phone, hunting for the same export twice is enough to make anyone give up halfway, and a file that fails without a word leaves you guessing.
- Every food guide names its sources, and squash pages say what to do with a bitter one
Every food guide now has its own Sources section, with numbers on the specific claims, and a check stops a new guide from going up without one. Reading those sources changed some advice. On the squash and gourd pages, from zucchini and pumpkin to bottle gourd: once in a while a squash tastes bitter from a natural toxin that cooking does not destroy, so taste a tiny bit of it raw yourself, not your baby, and throw it away if it is bitter.
Why: You act on these pages at the stove, so each one should show where its advice comes from and say only what that source says.
- Add a photo for your doctor right from the diaper log
When you add detail to a diaper with poop, or one with blood, there is now a photo button right there, the way there is for solids. Pick a photo, log the change, and the photo saves privately to Health photos with a note of what you logged. Undo takes the photo back too. The button stands out when you mark blood, mucus, or a red, black or pale stool, the things a doctor is most likely to ask to see. Before, the only way in was a link that showed for the Blood and Mucus chips alone and opened at the top of the Health page; that link now opens at the photos. In the Android app, the Health photo button could only take a new photo, and the solids photo button could only choose one you already had. Both now have two buttons: Take a photo, and Choose from photos.
Why: A photo shows your pediatrician what you saw better than a description can, so it should be one tap from the moment you notice it.
- Food guides corrected after reading their sources: greens, beans, chocolate and more
We read the sources behind more of our food guides, and some advice changed. Marrowfat peas stay flattened until about age 4, like other beans. Chicken liver is no more than once a week, for its vitamin A. Nutritional yeast goes on in sprinkles of about a teaspoon, since a tablespoon of some brands passes a toddler's daily limit for added niacin. Collards, bok choy, gai lan, rapini, arugula, yu choy and chayote shoots are served finely chopped rather than as whole leaves, and herbs and spices are fine from the start of solids while salt still is not. Chocolate milk, chocolate hazelnut spread and champurrado now wait until after age 2, like chocolate. Dried kidney-family beans soak for at least 5 hours and boil for at least 30 minutes, as the FDA advises. Searching kitchari, lugaw or bangus now finds khichdi, arroz caldo and milkfish.
Why: You act on these pages at the stove, so each one should show where its advice comes from and say only what that source says.
- Source numbers on food pages link to their sources
On some food pages, the storage tips and the prep cards showed a source number in brackets, like [9], as plain text. It is now a small link, the same as the rest of the page, that jumps to that source in the list near the bottom.
Why: A source number you cannot follow does not help you check what we wrote.
- Correction: some of our pages sent signs that need 911 to a call to your pediatrician
We reread our highest-risk food pages and our most-read guides line by line against the AAP, CDC, NHS, NIAID and Poison Control, then searched every page on the site for each problem we found. The most serious finding: some pages sent a sign that needs 911 to a call to your pediatrician. Thirteen feeding, diaper, sleep and illness guides told you to call your pediatrician, or get urgent care, for a baby who is floppy, limp or hard to wake. That is a 911 call, and those guides now say so. A very sleepy baby, or one sleeping through feeds, is still a call to your pediatrician. The sleepy feeder guide now says a jaundiced baby who is hard to wake or feeding poorly needs 911 or the ER, as our jaundice guide does. Our honey page and several holiday food pages, candy corn, brisket, hamantaschen, baklava and maamoul among them, told you to watch for signs of botulism after honey and call your pediatrician if you saw one, and a few others only said to mention the honey to your pediatrician. The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics both call botulism a medical emergency, and the CDC says not to wait, so every page that names these signs now says: Botulism is a medical emergency, so do not wait if your baby shows any sign of it. Call 911 (or your local emergency number) if your baby goes floppy, limp, or very weak, is suddenly sleepy or hard to wake, or has trouble breathing, sucking, or swallowing. Go to the ER now for poor feeding, a weak cry or one that sounds different, drooping eyelids, a face with less expression than usual, or head control that is weaker than usual. Constipation is often the first sign, but it has plenty of other causes, so if it is the only sign in the month after honey, get your baby seen today, by your doctor or at the ER, rather than waiting it out. If your baby has had honey, tell the ER or the doctor what they ate and when. A taste of honey in a baby who seems well is still not an emergency, and the pages still say so. The allergy signs guide now treats vomiting after a food as a 911 sign unless a doctor has diagnosed FPIES. The newborn diaper count guide filed too few wet diapers, and a baby who is hard to wake, under a call to your pediatrician. Fewer wet diapers, dark urine, a dry mouth or a sunken soft spot are now a same-day call, and no wet diaper in 12 hours, or a baby who is floppy or hard to wake, is a 911 call. The diapers per day guide gives the same tiers. The breastfed and formula-fed poop guides now say to call right away about blood in a baby under 12 weeks, and the blood and mucus guides send green vomit or blood in vomit to the ER. The feeding schedule guide said to call if your baby refuses most feeds for more than a day or two. It now says to call right away if a baby stops feeding or drinks very little for more than 8 hours.
Why: These are lines a parent or a sitter might act on in a scary moment, so each now matches what its source says, with the source on the page. Checks now read every page and fail the build if a floppy or hard-to-wake baby is sent anywhere but 911, or if a page names the signs of botulism without the line above.
- Correction: breast milk refreezing, carrot coins, milk and juice amounts, and other lines our review found wrong
The same review found other lines that were wrong. Our pumping and breast milk storage guides said milk that has only started to thaw can go back in the freezer. The CDC says never to refreeze breast milk after it has thawed, and both guides now say so. The carrot page said a cooked carrot coin that stays firm could be cut in half. A firm piece goes back to cook until it squishes, and batons are the shape for baby-led weaning. The cluster bean, Brussels sprout, lotus root and water caltrop pages said the same and are fixed too. The feeding schedule, turning one, and milk and solids guides, the goat milk page and the typical milk line on Trends said 16 to 24 ounces of milk a day after the first birthday. For 12 to 23 months they now give the AAPâs about 16 ounces (2 cups) a day or less, and the cowâs milk guide gives that limit too. The juice guide now says babies under 12 months should not have juice at all, and that juice after one should be pasteurized. Our guide for grandparents and nannies said no juice as an everyday drink, and now says no juice before age 1, and after that only pasteurized 100% juice, about 4 ounces a day at most. The juice page says pasteurized too. The honey guide, and the challah and brisket pages, said honey was simply fine or safe to enjoy from 12 months. They now say the botulism rule ends at 12 months but honey is still an added sugar, which the AAP says to avoid before age 2, so it stays an occasional small taste until then. The teething biscuit page says a biscuit made with honey waits until 12 months. The peanut steps now wait about 10 minutes after the first taste and watch for at least two hours, as NIAID says. Kinako is no longer suggested as a milk drink before 12 months, and never goes in a bottle. Kozhukattai holds its sticky casing until about age 4, like other sticky rice cakes. The gagging vs choking guide and the fridge printable now say to start first aid before calling if you are alone, to take out only food you can see, and to start infant CPR if your baby stops responding. The candlenut page said the FDA had warned that as few as two seeds of its toxic look-alike could be fatal. The FDA gave no number, so the page now says what the FDA did say, and it calls raw candlenut toxic rather than mildly toxic. The mussel page said the FDA only asks to limit king mackerel. Young children should avoid it, and the page now says so. The dangerous foods guide adds orange roughy to the high-mercury fish and gives marshmallows the same age as our choking guide, about 4. The ackee and beechnut pages cited sources that did not say what the page said, and now cite ones that do. Two guides did not say which babies they were for. The eating less guide now says it is for babies around one and older, with a box on when a younger baby who stops feeding needs a call, and the weight gain guide says its food ideas are for babies already eating solids, says most newborns are back to birth weight by about 2 weeks, and cites pages that cover babies. Labneh balls now scrape off their whole-seed zaâatar coating, smoked trout follows our smoked salmon advice, the blood guide uses the same first-week wet diaper counts as our other guides, and the snack guide agrees with our feeding schedule on snacks from 9 months.
Why: Each of these said something its source does not, or disagreed with another of our pages. Each now says what its source says, with the source on the page, and checks fail the breast milk and diaper guides if the old wording comes back.
- Pages about poisonous foods now say who to call, not only what the poison is
The review also found pages that described a danger and stopped there. Our pages about foods with a poisonous part, rhubarb, candlenut, elderberry, pond apple, borage, chanterelle mushroom, taro leaf, wojape, geoduck, ackee, cassava leaf, kidney bean, sword bean, scarlet runner bean, amberjack and beechnut, along with the seed answers for sugar apple, custard apple and cherimoya and the fruitcake answer for a slice soaked in alcohol, said nothing about what to do if a baby ate the dangerous part. The rhubarb and caffeine pages said to call poison control, with no number. Each of them now says: Call Poison Control right away (1-800-222-1222 in the US, or your local poison center) if you think your baby has eaten or swallowed something poisonous, even if they seem fine, because signs of poisoning can take time to show. Take away anything that is left, and do not try to make your baby vomit. Call 911 (or your local emergency number) right away for trouble breathing, a seizure, or a baby who goes floppy or limp, or is suddenly sleepy or hard to wake. Where it fits, a page adds its own reason to call 911: a swollen tongue or throat after taro leaf or rhubarb, pale or blue skin and fast breathing after borage, vomiting or drowsiness after ackee, and tingling lips after shellfish. The mussel and sea snail pages now say that cooking does not destroy the toxins shellfish can carry and name the signs of shellfish poisoning, and the mussel page says to throw out cracked mussels and any that stay open when tapped. Raw sprouts and unpasteurized juice name the warning signs of hemolytic uremic syndrome, which the CDC calls a medical emergency. The fava bean, broad bean and ful medames pages name the signs of a favism attack, say when to call 911, and ask a breastfeeding parent of a baby with G6PD deficiency to check with the pediatrician before eating fava beans. The roast beef page says to call Poison Help if a baby had gravy made with wine, and 911 if they go floppy or are hard to wake. Four pages gained a prep step: geoduck now says to cut away the gut ball, wojape to keep the chokecherry pits whole and never blend them, pequi to stop scraping well before the spiny pit, and chontaduro to boil for 1 to 3 hours.
Why: A parent whose baby has just eaten something poisonous needs a number to call, not only a description of the poison. Poison Control is free and open around the clock, and it is the right first call even for a baby who seems fine. A check now fails any page that drops the number, or any new page that leaves it out.
- Choking, reaction and newborn warning signs now come with what to do
Some guides, the home page, the baby-led weaning guide and the mochi page described choking without saying what to do. Each now gives the first aid steps, or the short version with a link: start first aid right away, have someone call 911 while you start, and if you are alone, shout for help and start at once. The caramel apple page gives the full reaction line for a bite rolled in nuts, and the yogurt and cheese guide says what to do if there is a reaction. Our first-week newborn poop guide now names the colors that need a call: white, gray, chalky, clay-colored or washed-out pale yellow stool (call right away), red, black after the meconium days, and any fever in a baby under 3 months. Every poop guide that names the pale-stool sign now names gray and pale yellow along with white, and the newborn diaper count guide names white, gray, chalky, clay-colored or pale yellow stool as a same-day call. In the diaper log, the pale stool color now reads "Pale or gray", and its alert names white, gray and washed-out yellow stool and says to call your pediatrician the same day. The day-night confusion guide gives the safe-sleep basics and the AAPâs advice to wake a young newborn who sleeps past 4 to 5 hours and misses feeds, and the snack guide names the snack-aisle choking hazards. When you log honey for a baby under 12 months, the Solids logger now says what to do: if your baby seems well, it is not an emergency, so watch them over the next month and let your pediatrician know, with the signs of botulism and when to call 911 one tap away.
Why: A warning sign is only useful with a next step. Checks now read every page and fail the build if a choking passage leaves out the steps.
- Small fixes for smaller phones and for dark mode
We went through the app screen by screen at the width of a small Android phone and of an iPhone, in light and dark mode, and fixed what we found. The YummyYucky name at the top of the app is no longer cut off on a narrower phone. In Recent bites, a long food name wraps onto the next line instead of running under the time beside it. On Trends, a date like Thu, Oct 1 stays on one line. The hint inside an empty box, like the e.g. 100.4 in the temperature box, is easier to read in dark mode. On Health, the Vaccines and Health photos cards have the same size heading as the cards around them, and the â that removes a shot from the record is as easy to hit as every other â. The arrows that step Today back a day and the â that closes a card are easier to tap. On a food page, the Baby-led weaning or PurĂ©es choice you made last time shows as soon as the page opens, and only one choice is ever highlighted. And the page you land on from a broken link no longer runs its words to the very edge of the screen.
Why: A word cut off or a button that is hard to hit means a second try, and the second try usually happens one-handed in the dark.
- The iPhone and Android apps say so when there is no signal
This is version 1.0.5 of the iPhone and Android apps, from the App Store and Google Play. Opening the app with no signal used to leave it on the orange splash screen until you closed it. Now the splash comes down and a page says the app cannot reach YummyYucky, with a Try again button, and the app loads by itself a few seconds after your connection comes back. Anything you already logged stays saved. In the iPhone app, every page of our site now opens inside the app. Most already did after a fix in September, but a screen that reloaded itself just after we put out an update could still open in Safari, where you were not signed in. In the Android app, press and hold the app icon to jump straight to logging a feed, a diaper change or sleep.
Why: An app stuck on its splash screen gives no hint that the only problem is the signal, so it looks broken. And the quickest way to log the diaper you just changed is straight from the home screen.
- Correction: food pages that list reaction signs now say what to do
Some of our food pages, egg, cheddar, sesame, mussels and several fish among them, told you to watch for hives, swelling, vomiting or trouble breathing after a first taste and stopped there, with no word on what to do if you saw one. Each of them, and every other list of those signs on our food pages, now ends with the same line as the rest of the site: Call 911 (or your local emergency number) right away if any of these show up soon after a food, on their own or together: swelling of the lips, face, eyes, or tongue; swelling or tightness in the throat, or trouble swallowing; vomiting; hives that spread beyond the mouth and face; trouble breathing, noisy breathing, or wheezing; a cough that keeps going; a hoarse voice; skin or lips that turn pale or blue; or a baby who goes floppy or limp, or is suddenly sleepy or hard to wake. If the only sign is a new rash or a few hives around the mouth or face, stop the food, watch your baby closely, and call your pediatrician. If anything else about your baby worries you, call 911. Four pages that said to watch for repeated vomiting now say vomiting, since one is enough to act on.
Why: A list of signs with no next step leaves you deciding in the moment whether a swollen lip is worth a call. The answer is on the page now, and a check fails any food page that names these signs without it.
- Introduced now means the same thing on every screen
An allergen counts as introduced only once the 3-day watch on its first taste is over with no reaction noted, and now every screen uses that one rule. Some still counted an allergen from its first bite: the allergen count on Today, the "All 9 allergens" badge, the food tiles, and the food and reaction summary. Some also suggested a second food with that allergen while the first was still being watched: the forms card and meal ideas on the Allergens page, Today's bite, and the mix-in ideas after a yummy. Now those screens say the first watch is still open and hold off until it is over. A first bite saved with "First time trying" left unticked gets the same 3 days before it counts, on the sitter page too. And if the app can't check the watches, the Allergens page says so instead of marking anything introduced.
Why: Introduced means the watch on the first taste is over and nothing happened. A count, a badge or a meal idea that says otherwise during that watch can put a second food with the same allergen on the plate before anyone knows how the first one went.
- In Plus: the planner, recap and checkup report wait out a first watch too
The same one rule now runs through Plus: the meal planner, toddler meals and Journey hold off on a second food with an allergen whose first watch is still open, the Sunday recap names an allergen as new only once its watch is over, the checkup report and visit prep say tried rather than introduced until then, and a shared sitter link waits out an unticked first bite too.
Why: A suggestion or a summary that runs ahead of the watch can put a second food with the same allergen on the plate before anyone knows how the first one went.
- Correction: peanut and tree nut allergies often go together, both ways
Our peanut allergen page and the allergen overview said a peanut allergy does not by itself mean a tree nut allergy, then gave one figure, that about 40% of children with a tree nut allergy also react to peanut, citing an advocacy groupâs summary. The first half read as more reassuring than the research. The line now gives the overlap both ways, from the study behind that figure, which followed children in Melbourne to age 6: 45% of 6-year-olds with a peanut allergy also had a tree nut allergy, and 43% of those with a tree nut allergy also had a peanut allergy. It links that study, and still says to ask your allergist which nuts to test.
Why: A family living with a peanut allergy needs to hear that a tree nut allergy often comes with it, not that it probably does not.
- The checkup report averages the way the visit glance does, and says introduced only once a watch is over
The checkup report averaged each figure over every day it was logged, while the free visit glance counts only fully logged days, so the same week could read two different numbers on the two pages you take to the pediatrician. The report now counts feeds and changes the way the glance does: a day the log stopped at lunch is left out instead of reading as a baby who fed or wet less, and each figure says how many fully logged days it comes from. Sleep and pumping still average over the days they were logged, and the report now says which rule is which. The report and its visit prep also called an allergen introduced the moment a bite was logged, even one still being watched or one with a reaction. They now use the allergen radarâs rule: introduced means a food with it was logged, its watch is over, and no reaction was noted. Anything else tried prints as tried, not introduced yet, with why: a reaction, still being watched, or on hold. The fine print under the visit form questions also says only what the card shows: while the CDC checklist line is held off the report, it no longer mentions ticked items.
Why: A half-logged day read as fewer feeds or fewer wet diapers is a false alarm on the one page your pediatrician reads, and two pages should never give two answers about the same week. "Introduced" on that page has to mean what it means everywhere else in the app.
- Undo always brings your entry back, and the app says so when it cannot load your family
If you had not yet ticked the health information box, tapping Undo after deleting an entry could not put it back, and it stayed deleted. Now it is kept on your phone and comes back the moment you tick the box, and the message says so. If the app cannot load your family (a first sign-in with no signal, or a new phone), it now says that, with a Try again button, instead of asking "Who are we feeding?" and offering to add a baby you already have. Joining through an invite link and then creating your account brings you back to the invite, so you see whether you are in. And whether you join through an invite link or an emailed invite, if the baby already has all the caretakers the free plan includes, you are told why rather than being asked to add a baby. Library search now works with no signal in the app. Clearing the time and tapping Start sleep or Wake up now starts or ends the sleep right then, as clearing the time does on every other tab. A half-written message on the feedback or gift page is no longer wiped when the app finishes signing you in. And the app does not ask for a rating while any of your babies has a fever, a medicine, a reaction or an open allergen watch, or a symptom photo from the past week.
Why: Undo should never lose something, and nobody should end up with the same baby twice because a page could not load. Twins are free, so a calm moment has to be calm for every baby, not just the one you logged.
- Pumps, sleep and averages that read your history right
Pumps now show on Today's day beside your feeds, on the last 24 hours page and on Handoff, and the Milk supply card lists your recent pumps even when you have no milk stash set up. Before, pumps you brought over from another app showed up nowhere. On Trends, each average now uses only the days that kind was fully logged (for sleep, the days a sleep was logged), says how many days that is, and waits for at least 3 of them, the same rules as the visit glance. Before, changes logged on a single day could read as about 1 a day. Today's sleep is now one number on Today and on Trends: the sleep since midnight, so last night's hours after midnight count as today's. When you log vitamin D or another medicine, or set up a reminder, the amount and unit start from the last dose you logged of it, so 1 mL stays 1 mL (ibuprofen aside, because its drops and liquid differ in strength). If your browser can't send notifications, saving a reminder now says it will only show in the app until you install it. The Getting started card links to bringing your history over from another app, and Today makes far fewer requests when it opens, which helps on a slow connection.
Why: Families switching from other trackers are arriving with months of history, and it should read right the first time they open the app.
- Bringing your history over: undo any import later, keep who logged what, and no feed counted twice
Every import now stays listed under Past imports on the import page, with its date, the app, the file and how many entries it brought, and you can undo it from there any time, not only on the screen right after. Entries from Nara Baby keep the name of whoever logged them ("Logged by Sam in Nara"), so Handoff no longer says "by you" for a feed your partner logged there. A nursing feed timed on both sides keeps the side it started on, so Start nursing offers the right side next. If you logged the same feed in both apps a few minutes apart, the import leaves the Nara copy out unless you tick it. The preview also says which child the file is for and asks before it goes into a different child's log, a second upload counts only what is new since your last import, you can sign in to an account you already have without choosing the file again (and add your baby right there if that account has none yet), and if your baby has no birthday here yet it offers the one in the file. When an import finishes, the way into your baby's log is now right under the headline instead of at the bottom of the screen.
Why: Families are moving over from Nara Baby this week, and many log in both apps for a few days while they switch. We went through the whole move the way a switching family does, and these were the places it let them down.
- An allergen counts as introduced only once its first watch is over
If your baby tried a second food with the same allergen while the first one was still being watched, say yogurt one day and cheese the next, or both in one meal, the app called that allergen introduced too soon. The count on the Allergens page went up, the sitter page said the first food was fine to serve, and a shared sitter link listed the allergen as introduced. Now an allergen counts as introduced only after the 3-day watch on its first food is over with no reaction noted, and until then the sitter page and the sitter link show both foods as still being watched. The sitter page now also shows what to do about a reaction at any time, not only while a watch is open. A few more fixes: typing "Benedryl", "Diphenhydramine HCl", "Vit D", "colecalciferol" or "Fultium-D3" now finds the right medicine and its checks, and for a child in the UK, where Benadryl is a different medicine, "Benadryl" is kept just as you typed or said it. Vitamin D drops at the amounts on the label are no longer turned away. When a vitamin D dose would take the day above the upper limit for your child's age, the question now has a "No, but it was given" answer, which saves the dose with a note that it was not prescribed and tells you who to call if you're worried, and "Cancel, don't save" for a dose you have not given. For drops, it says it counts each drop as 400 IU, the strongest drops sold, since some are weaker. If no birthday is saved, the "more than a usual dose" note for acetaminophen (Tylenol, Calpol) now uses the youngest age's dose, as the other medicines do, and says so. The dose still saves. On the night the clocks go back (October 25 in the UK, November 1 in the US), times you type, edit or say in the hour that repeats are read as they are on any other night: a time a few minutes ahead of the clock counts as now, and a time later than now is not saved. Moving a vitamin D dose to another day checks that day's total. If your family allergy list cannot load, a food with a reaction logged before now gets a heads-up too. Our guide to baby rashes now gives the steps the AAP and the NHS give for a rash that spreads, and our purée and storing guides now say not to refreeze baby food once it has thawed.
Why: Introduced means the watch on the first taste is over and nothing happened. A sitter who reads "fine to serve" while that watch is still open could give the food again before anyone knows, and a dose saved an hour early can make the next one look due when it is not.
- Correction: the same reaction signs and the same call-911 list on every page
Our allergen pages, the Solids logger and the sitter page already gave NIAIDâs reaction tiers. Elsewhere, older lines were still live: dozens of guides and food pages, including the guide for grandparents and sitters, said only that trouble breathing or facial swelling is an emergency, and some sent swelling, vomiting or even trouble breathing to "call your pediatrician". They now all say the same thing: Call 911 (or your local emergency number) right away if any of these show up soon after a food, on their own or together: swelling of the lips, face, eyes, or tongue; swelling or tightness in the throat, or trouble swallowing; vomiting; hives that spread beyond the mouth and face; trouble breathing, noisy breathing, or wheezing; a cough that keeps going; a hoarse voice; skin or lips that turn pale or blue; or a baby who goes floppy or limp, or is suddenly sleepy or hard to wake. If the only sign is a new rash or a few hives around the mouth or face, stop the food, watch your baby closely, and call your pediatrician. If anything else about your baby worries you, call 911. Pages that call redness from acidic or juicy food harmless now add: If you cannot tell irritation from a new rash or a few hives around the mouth or face, treat it as a mild sign: stop the food, watch your baby closely, and call your pediatrician. Separately, the homemade purĂ©es guide still said frozen purĂ©e keeps 1 to 3 months and should never be refrozen, the answer we corrected on the storing guide on September 28. It now says about 1 to 2 months, and that purĂ©e which thawed in the fridge and stayed cold can go back in the freezer.
Why: A baby who turns pale or blue or goes floppy may not be struggling to breathe yet, and vomiting or swollen lips can be the first sign of a serious reaction. Every page now takes this list from one place, and a check fails any page that gives a shorter one.
- Medicine checks that follow the label for your child's age
The "more than a usual dose" note for acetaminophen now checks the amount against the label's dose for your child's age on the day it was given. Before, one amount applied at every age, so some doses straight from the label showed the Poison Control note. For a child in the UK it now uses the NHS doses for paracetamol and children's ibuprofen, so Calpol at the NHS dose for their age no longer shows it. The question before one dose too many in 24 hours now comes at the NHS's number for their age too, which is lower than the US labels' number. If your child's birthday isn't saved, the note works as it did before, and ibuprofen now shows its age cautions (not for babies under 6 months unless their doctor says so) instead of nothing. Vitamin D above the NIH's daily upper limit for your child's age, counting everything logged that day, now asks whether your doctor prescribed it, and how often, then saves it with your answer. It used to turn away a high dose a doctor had prescribed, and it looked at each dose on its own. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) is on the medicine list now, and logging it for a child under 6 shows what the Children's Benadryl label says for that age. We still never suggest a dose.
Why: A dose given exactly as the label says should not look like a mistake, and a dose your doctor prescribed should not be turned away. A large vitamin D dose still gets a question first, because giving that much every day is a call for your doctor to make.
- We now ask before storing health information
There is a new checkbox, separate from the Terms. Ticking it means you agree that we can store and use the health information you log about your child (and about you, if you log nursing) to run the app, and that you are allowed to enter it. It is never ticked for you. You see it when you sign up, before your first log as a guest, or once the next time you open the app if you already have an account. If you leave it for now, you can still see, change, export and delete everything you have logged, and delete your account. New logs wait until you tick it. Settings says how to withdraw it later.
Why: Feeds, diapers, sleep, symptoms and medicines are health information, and privacy law in the UK and Europe asks for a clear yes before storing it. Our privacy policy said we would ask this as its own question, and now the app does. We ask everyone, because guessing where you live is not a good enough reason to skip it.
- Safer allergen tracking, and times that hold when the clocks go back
When the clocks go back on November 1, the hour from 1 to 2 AM happens twice. A sleep, feed, diaper or dose typed in during the second one used to save an hour early. It now saves when it happened, and the same goes for a time you say out loud. On the Allergen radar, the count of allergens introduced now counts only the ones whose watch is over with no reaction noted. A reaction logged with imitation crab now holds shellfish there and in the rotation reminders too, since most imitation crab has a little real crab in it. First time trying now knows a food your baby had under another name, like surimi for imitation crab, so it no longer opens a watch for a food that is not new. With no signal, it says it could not check the log, and once you are back online a food whose first taste is already in the log stops being labeled a first, while any allergen watch it started still runs its full course. Undo on a deleted bite now works offline and syncs when you reconnect, so a first taste deleted by mistake comes back. And if your family allergy list cannot load, a new food gets a careful heads-up instead of none.
Why: Each of these was a place where a dropped connection or an odd name could quietly hide something you needed to see. Now each one says what it knows, and when it is unsure, it says so.
- Logging works on older iPhones
On an iPhone on iOS 15, or on iOS 16 before 16.4, the app's own screens did not load, in the app or in Safari: signing in, Today and the logging sheet, and a recipe's page too. A few lines of code those versions cannot read had slipped in. They are gone, and every build now checks for them. On those versions the layouts made for small and large screens now apply as well, and on iOS 15.0 to 15.3, adding a photo or a video and some imports from other apps now work. Voice needs iOS 16.4 or later, so on older versions the mic no longer shows, rather than failing when you try it.
Why: The app supports iPhones back to iOS 15, and logging has to work on every one of them.
- Starting up with no signal still shows your baby
If YummyYucky started up while it could not reach our servers, Today could ask "Who are we feeding?" as if you had no baby, and it stayed that way after the signal came back until you closed and reopened the app. Now it shows your family as your phone saved it the last time it loaded, on the baby you were looking at, within a few seconds. You can keep logging, and anything you log offline stays on your phone and sends once you are back online. When the connection returns, your family's latest details load by themselves, with no need to reopen the app. What your phone saved is only ever shown to the account that saved it. If you had not opened YummyYucky for a while, a start with no signal could also ask you to sign in again, even though you were still signed in. Now it stays on the loading screen, says it can't reach YummyYucky, and opens as usual once your signal is back.
Why: A weak signal should never make the app forget your family.
- Correction: solids start at one meal a day, then build to two or three
Our baby feeding schedule guide said to offer 2 to 3 small solid meals a day from 6 months. Our guide to how much a baby should eat said about one at 6 months, and Trends showed a 6-month-old "2-3 meals a day". The NHS says a baby starting solids needs only a small amount once a day, then moves gradually toward three meals from about 7 months, and the WHO gives 2 to 3 meals a day for 6 to 8 months. Both guides, the schedules and Trends now say the same: one small meal a day to start around 6 months, about 2 to 3 by 7 to 8 months, and 3 by 9 to 12 months. Both guides now cite the NHS and WHO pages behind it.
Why: A parent whose new 6-month-old eats once a day could have read on one of our pages that they were behind. They were not.
- Formula prices for bottles that mix breast milk and formula
The weekly formula price check only looked for bottles logged as formula. A bottle that mixes breast milk and formula did not count, so a family who mixes every bottle could have their formula left out of the check, and the price card would keep saying it was tracking prices with nothing to show. Any bottle with formula in it now counts.
Why: Mixing breast milk and formula in one bottle is common, and those families buy formula too.
- A formula stash with no brand picked saves every time
If you set your formula stash without picking a brand, changing it again said "Couldn't save your formula stash" and quietly added a second copy, so the amount shown afterward could be the old one. Every try added another copy. Now a change saves to the one stash you have.
Why: Picking a brand is optional, so a stash without one has to save like any other.
- The monthly letter adds up sleep and nursing the way the app does
The month in numbers, on the monthly letter and in its email, now adds up sleep and nursing the way Trends and the checkup report do. When a nap and a night overlap, like one of you logging the night from 7:45 and the other a nap from 6:45 to 8, the minutes they share count as night, and the nap keeps only its own. Before, the letter could count that whole night as nap time. Every nursing minute you log now counts toward the month, a long feed included, as it does on the Feeds tab and in Trends, so if a timer was left running, fix that feed's minutes on the Feeds tab. And when changes brought over from another app weigh on the month, the note under the numbers now names the day the wet count can be read from, as Trends and the checkup report do.
Why: Your log should say the same thing wherever you read it. A letter that tells one story about your month and Trends another leaves you wondering which one to trust.
- Under 6 weeks, a stool note that says to call stays on Today
For a baby between 1 month and 6 weeks old, logging a loose diaper showed a note saying what normal looks like, and that a sudden change to more, and more watery, stools is a call to your pediatrician right away. It showed only while you were logging the diaper. Now it stays on Today and on the Diapers card for a day after that diaper, the way the pale stool alert does, in the same words. Under 6 weeks, any stool note that tells you to call your pediatrician stays up this way. From 6 weeks, nothing changes.
Why: A baby this young can get dehydrated quickly, so the line that says when to call should still be there when you look again, not only while you are logging.
- Invite codes follow the free plan's caretaker count
The free plan includes 2 caretakers per baby, you included, and the app checked that only when you made an invite. An invite made while there was room still let someone join after the baby already had 2. Now the person joining sees that the baby already has 2 caretakers and is asked to let whoever invited them know, and their code still works once there is room. Nobody already caring for a baby was removed. An emailed invite that cannot be used yet waits, and other invites sent to the same address still go through.
Why: The invite screen said 2, and a code made earlier could still bring in one more. It is now the same number however someone joins.
- A reminder for two medicines asks for one each
A medication reminder named for two medicines, like "Tylenol and Motrin", saved, and its Log now wrote one dose under that name, which counted as neither medicine. So a 5th dose of ibuprofen or a 6th of acetaminophen in 24 hours was not asked about. Now the reminder form asks you to make a reminder for each medicine. Log now on a reminder saved before this logs nothing and says to log each one on its own, and Log again on Today will not repeat an older dose saved under two names. Combination vitamins, like Poly-Vi-Sol with Iron, save and log as before.
Why: The Meds form and voice stopped saving two medicines as one dose on October 3. A reminder has to count doses the same way.
- A sleep said for last night lands on last night
"Slept 7 to 9 last night" said in the morning was saved as 7 to 9 that morning, and "slept 11 to 2 last night" said in the afternoon was saved as a nap from 11 to 2 that day. A sleep said with "last night" now starts at a time of night, the same way "a bath last night at 7" already meant 7 PM, and ends the next time its clock reads the end you said: "7 to 9 last night" is 7 PM to 9 PM, and "8 to 7 last night" is 8 PM to 7 AM. "Went down at 8 and woke at 7 last night", which used to ask for the times, is the same night. If the start is not a time of night, or the end has not come yet, it asks.
Why: A night saved as a morning nap puts the sleep on the wrong day and in the wrong totals.
- With no signal, a screen says so right away
With no signal, each screen you opened tried its reads again and again for several seconds before it showed that it could not load, and the app kept retrying your baby list and your plan on a timer. Now, while your phone says it is offline, a screen asks once and, when it cannot load, says so right away, and those retries wait for your connection to come back before they try again.
Why: Retrying without a signal could not get through. It only made the error slower to show and kept the phone busy.
- The Flavor Explorer counts foods, not what goes in them
Garlic stirred into lentils counted as a bitter green in the Flavor Explorer, and butter, oils, spices and ground nuts counted toward foods tried, new this week, the badges and the world passport, where ghee opened South Asia. A garlic rated yucky even got the card about greens taking a few tries. Now those counts and cards read the foods your baby eats, the same way Today's bite has since September 30: herbs and spices, oils and butter, sauces, nut butters and ground nuts, flours and drinks are left out. Herbs and spices still have their own count in the spice tracker, nut butters and ground nuts still count for the allergens they carry, and a food you typed in yourself still counts.
Why: The Explorer is meant to show what your baby eats, and a pinch of garlic or a pat of butter is not a food they tried.
- The memory book has the sleep firsts
The memory book left out the sleep firsts that Firsts and Journey show, like the first long stretch of sleep, so the book of a baby not yet on solids could come up empty. They have their own chapter now, and the cover counts them with the other firsts. And a count of one reads as one: "1 food tried" instead of "1 foods tried" on Journey, the recap, the reaction summary and the checkup report, and "1 first" on Today.
Why: Before solids, the sleep firsts are most of what a baby has to put in the book.
- The time fits on small phones
On a narrow phone, the time box in the Feeds, Sleep, Diapers, Meds and Activity forms, and in their edit forms, cut the time off, showing something like "03:" with no minutes or AM or PM, and Settings slid sideways under the monthly letter's choices. The time now drops under the date when the two do not fit side by side, and those choices wrap onto a second row.
Why: The time is the part of a log form you most need to check before you save.
- Fix a feed logged as the wrong kind, and add a note
Editing a feed, on the Feeds tab or with â on Today, now lets you change a bottle to nursing or nursing to a bottle, and switch a bottle between breast milk, formula and a mix. A bottle changed to nursing can keep that bottle as its top-up, and nursing with a top-up changed to a bottle keeps the top-up as the bottle. A feed also has a note now, which you can add, change or clear there, and a note that came over from another app shows in it.
Why: A feed logged as the wrong kind had to be deleted and logged again, and the editor had no place for a feed's note.
- Fixing one thing on an entry is never blocked by another
When you fix the time or one detail of something you logged, what you left alone no longer stops the save. A temperature saved in August, before the app checked readings, could refuse every save: a 37 typed in Celsius when the field took only Fahrenheit was kept as 37°F, and then neither its time nor how it was taken could be fixed. Those now save, and the reading stays as it was until you change it. Changing one part of a bottle of breast milk and formula no longer gets refused because of the other part, which stays as it was.
Why: An entry brought over from another app, or saved by an older version of ours, should never get stuck because of something you did not touch.
- A guide for families living with a peanut allergy
New in Learn: "Baby has a peanut allergy: what to do day to day." It covers the names that mean peanut on a label and where peanut hides, what the US labeling law does not cover, keeping peanut out at home and at daycare, eating out and flying, keeping the rest of your babyâs menu open, being ready for a reaction, and a list of questions to bring to the allergist. Every statement is sourced, mostly to the AAP, NIAID, the FDA, the CDC, ACAAI, AAAAI, ASCIA and the NHS.
Why: Our peanut guides all stopped at introducing peanut. A family whose baby has just been diagnosed needs the next part, and had nothing from us until now.
- Search the guides by topic
The guides page has a search box now, and search finds a guide by what it covers, not only by its title. Type fever, gagging or hives and you get the guides that talk about it, with the ones named for it first. The search on the Library tab works the same way.
Why: The answer to a 2am question is often inside a guide with a different name. What teething does and does not do to a fever is in the teething guide, and you should not have to know that to find it.
- An email before a paused subscription bills again
If a gift has paused your Plus subscription, we now email you about two weeks before billing starts again, with the date in your own time zone. If you would rather not continue, the email says how to cancel before that day without being charged.
Why: The Plus page and Settings showed the date, but only to someone who went and looked.
- Gift emails name the day where you live
The email that says your gifted Plus is ending named the day by UTC time, so a gift ending on a US evening read as ending the next day. It now names the day in your own time zone, the one your phone or browser uses. The note we send when a gift payment is reversed does the same.
Why: Our servers keep UTC time, and these emails used their clock instead of yours.
- The family allergy heads-up is for new foods
When someone in the family is allergic to a food, the Solids logger said to introduce a small amount and watch closely every time that food was logged, even after months of your baby eating it. Now it shows while the food is new to your baby. A bite logged under another spelling, or brought over from another app, counts as eaten. If a reaction was logged with that food before, the heads-up says so and suggests checking with your pediatrician before offering it again. If the app cannot read your baby's history, say with no signal, it still shows. A family allergy written as a group, like tree nuts, shellfish or dairy, now gives the heads-up for each new food that carries it. Before, it never showed for those.
Why: A reminder that shows up every time stops getting read, and this one needs to be read on the day it matters.
- No signal no longer leaves you on the loading screen
Opening YummyYucky with no signal, in the Android app or in a browser you had used it in before, could sit on "Warming up the high chair" for over a minute and then show Today with no baby on it, which stayed that way after the signal came back. Now it shows a page that says YummyYucky can't be reached right now, with a Try again button, and it loads by itself a couple of seconds after your connection comes back. If the signal drops while YummyYucky is starting up, the loading screen says so after a few seconds too. Anything you already logged stays saved.
Why: A loading screen that never finishes looks like a broken app, when the only problem is the signal.
- Logging by voice works in the iPhone app
In the iPhone app, tapping a mic to log by voice said "Could not start the mic," and holding the Log button said the microphone permission was off, every time, even when it was on. The app was trying to record through a piece the iPhone app never had. It now records the way Safari does, so the mic listens and hears what you said, all on your phone, the same as on the web. If the microphone is turned off for YummyYucky, the mic now points you to Settings > Apps > YummyYucky > Microphone. The Android app and the website were never affected.
Why: Voice is meant to work wherever you log, and on an iPhone it never started at all.
- Two medicines said by voice are two doses
Saying two medicines at once by voice, like "gave Tylenol and Motrin", now hears a dose of each, and each one goes through the same checks as a medicine said on its own: it logs only with an amount said for it, and a 5th dose of ibuprofen or a 6th of acetaminophen in 24 hours asks first. An amount counts for a medicine only when it is said with that medicine, so "2.5 mL of Tylenol and Motrin" logs the Tylenol and asks how much Motrin. A time or a day said with only one of them is not used for the other, which asks for its time instead. "Tylenol or Motrin" and "alternating Tylenol and Motrin" log nothing and name both, so you can add the one you gave on Meds. The mic on the Meds tab names both too, so you can log each one on its own, and two medicines typed as one under Other, like "Tylenol and Motrin", now ask you to log each one on its own instead of saving a dose that counted as neither.
Why: Two medicines said together were heard as one medicine with no name. Nothing was logged and the app asked about "a medicine", so a parent could add one dose and leave the other out of the count.
- Redeem a gift while you subscribe, and your billing pausesHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Paying for Plus and redeeming a gift code on the same account: renewals kept charging the card for time the gift also covered.Observed impact: None found. We checked: nobody who subscribes is holding a gift right now.Action needed: Nothing. If you subscribe and redeem a gift from now on, the pause happens by itself.
If you already pay for Plus and redeem a gift code, we now pause your subscription while the gift covers you, so you are not charged for time someone has already given you. Plus stays on the whole time. Billing starts again by itself when the gift runs out, and the Plus page and Settings show you the date. A second gift moves that date later. If you cancel while paused, your subscription ends without another charge, and the gift still runs to its end. A gift shorter than one billing period, like a single month on a yearly plan, cannot skip a charge, so it runs alongside the time you have paid for.
Why: Until now a subscriber who redeemed a gift kept being charged while the gift covered them too, so they paid for months they had been given.
- Voice reads a list of foods said in one breath
A list of foods said by voice with no "and" between them, the way some phones write it down, now reads one food at a time, the same as a list with commas. When two foods said side by side could be one food ("chickpea pasta" has no wheat), the "Check what I heard" card asks about just those two, and every other food is already ticked. The card shows every food it heard, not only the first six, and while Add to meal is waiting it says which food to tap or skip.
Why: A parent said ten foods in one go, and the card asked about the whole sentence, left four of the foods off, and its Add to meal button did nothing when tapped.
- Each tab of the log sheet opens at the top
Switching tabs in the log sheet now starts the new tab at the top, where its buttons are. Before, if you had scrolled down on Feeds or Solids and then tapped Diapers, the Diapers tab could open far down, at the supply section, and you had to scroll back up to log the change. It had nothing to do with how many diapers you have left.
Why: You open the log to log something, so that is where every tab should start.
- Acetaminophen asks before a 6th dose in a day
Logging a 6th dose of acetaminophen (Tylenol) within 24 hours now asks before it saves, the way a 5th dose of ibuprofen does, because the label and the AAP say no more than 5 a day. It counts doses from everyone who logs for your baby, under any name: Tylenol, paracetamol, Calpol. Ibuprofen typed the way the infant drops' box says it, "Infants' Motrin Concentrated Drops", is now read as the infant drops, and ibuprofen imported from Nara keeps which one it was in its name.
Why: Two people giving Tylenol through a long night can lose count, and the app has every dose in front of it.
- The printables show their sources, and the choking chart follows the 2025 CPR guidelines
Our free printables (gagging vs choking, how to cut food, foods to avoid before age 1, and the baby poop color chart) now name the pages behind them: links on screen, short names on paper, and each sheet still prints on one page. The choking chart's chest-thrust step now matches the 2025 American Heart Association and AAP guidelines: the heel of one hand on the middle of the breastbone, not two fingers. The poop chart now says to call about black, tarry stool even when your baby takes iron, and the foods to avoid sheet adds high-mercury fish. More food guides now carry their own Sources list, with each claim linked to the page that backs it, and the few lines no source backed were reworded or taken out.
Why: A sheet on the fridge should be one you can check, and a choking step should match what an infant CPR class teaches today.
- Correction: za'atar is ground fine until about age 4, and it has one guide now
We had two za'atar guides that did not quite agree. Now there is one, with the other spices: how to introduce the sesame in it, how to keep the salt down, how to serve it at each age, and the sources behind each of those. It also says what neither guide said before: most blends carry whole sesame seeds, which are a choking risk for young children, so grind it fine until about age 4.
Why: Two guides to one food is one too many when they disagree, and the safety line that matters most belongs on the page you land on.
- Every food search finds the same food
Searching for a food now works the same way in all four places you can do it: the baby foods page on our website, the search on the Library page, the Food library, and the food box when you log a bite. The website search found nothing for "peaches" and knew none of a food's other names, so "forbidden rice", "kumara" and "hard-boiled egg" came up empty there. Now every search knows every name a food goes by, takes it singular or plural, with or without accents (gruyere finds GruyĂšre), and when nothing matches as typed it offers the closest spelling, so "bananna" and "canteloupe" find banana and cantaloupe. A food that goes by the word you typed comes first: "oats" leads with oatmeal and "soybeans" with edamame. Brand names like Cheez-Its and Froot Loops still lead to the right guide, and the food box never offers a different food in their place.
Why: You should not have to guess which spelling one particular search box wants.
- Ibuprofen asks which one you gave
When you log ibuprofen, you can now pick infant drops or children's liquid. Infant drops are twice as strong, mL for mL, so the "more than a usual dose" note now checks the amount against that product's largest dose for your baby's age on the day it was given, from the label and the AAP dosing table. If you don't pick one, it checks against the drops, the stricter of the two. For a baby under 6 months, any ibuprofen dose shows a note to check with your pediatrician, and so does children's liquid under age 2, which its label says to ask a doctor about. A 5th dose of ibuprofen within 24 hours now asks before it saves, counting doses from everyone who logs for your baby, because the labels and the AAP say no more than 4 a day. The same choice is in the dose editor and in medication reminders, and saying "infant Motrin" or "children's Advil" to the mic picks it for you. We still never suggest a dose.
Why: The same number of mL can be twice the medicine depending on the bottle, so one cutoff could not be right for both. And when two people are giving doses through a long night, an extra one is easy to miss.
- A bottle, diaper or bath logged by two of you counts once, and the app asks first
When someone else logged the same kind of thing for your baby a few minutes before you (a feed within 10 minutes, a diaper change within 5, an activity within 10), the app now asks, for example, "Dad logged a bottle at 7:05 PM. Is this the same one?" Same one saves nothing, and Log another saves it. It never asks about your own entries. When two of you log the very same bottle, change or activity for the same minute, every count now reads it once: Today, the Feeds, Diapers and Activities tabs, the sitter page, Trends, the Checkup, the last 24 hours, the monthly letter and the Sunday email. Both entries stay in the list, so you can remove one. A sleep said out loud now gets the question the Sleep tab asks before saving over another sleep. For a baby whose messages are paused, a new sleep no longer turns on the "still asleep?" check-in by itself, and you can still pick one on the Sleep tab. The teething biscuits page now says to choose one with no added sugar, and the soda page now matches the guidance: no soda or other sugary drinks for children 5 and under.
Why: Two people caring for one baby should never make the day look busier than it was, and a family that asked for quiet should not get a check-in nobody chose.
- Allergens count however a food was logged, and quiet hours stay set on every phone
Foods logged by name, by voice or from an import now count toward your allergens introduced, the All 9 badge and the allergen labels on the reactions page. Quiet hours you set on one phone now stay set when you open the app on another, and a reminder no longer goes out during your quiet hours because they could not be read.
Why: A count should not depend on how a food was logged, and quiet hours set on one phone should hold on every phone.
- In Plus: kilograms on the checkup, and the sitter link says what is still being watched
On the checkup report, you can now add a growth measurement in kilograms and centimeters, not only pounds and inches. It starts in the units your device is set up for, a "use kg" or "use lb" switch changes it, and what you type reads back exactly as you typed it. The care summary link you share with a sitter now says "first tried today, still watching" for an allergen tried in the last 3 days, the way the sitter page in the app does, instead of listing it as introduced. It also asks a sitter to check with you before offering shellfish after a reaction logged with clams or another mollusk, before offering imitation crab whenever shellfish is on hold, and before offering shellfish after a reaction logged with imitation crab. The Sunday email counts a food as new only the first time your baby has it, whether or not first time was ticked, and an allergen as new only the first time it is ever eaten.
Why: A sitter reading the link should hear what you would tell them yourself, and a measurement should read back the way the doctor gave it.
- Baby-led weaning and purée steps for the holiday and everyday dishes
The everyday dishes and holiday foods we added in September, from meatloaf, marinara and pho to latkes, challah, kheer and pecan pie, now have their Prep School steps: how to serve each one at each age, on the baby-led weaning track and on the purĂ©e track. Until now those pages showed one list for everyone. Every step comes from that foodâs own guide, including the ones that say to wait and what to offer instead. Writing them turned up a few lines to tighten on those pages: the sweetened festival kheer now waits until after age 2 everywhere on its page, peas in pot pie, shepherdâs pie and paella get flattened at 9 months, pho noodles stay cut to half an inch, nuts in stuffing, scones, stir fry and baklava come out or get mashed flat rather than chopped, and the chowder page counts clams as their own food rather than as shellfish.
Why: Whichever way you feed, the page you are reading should tell you how to serve that food your way. These were the pages that did not.
- Twenty-three new foods, from multigrain cereal to tuna salad
Twenty-three foods you can now log, each with its own guide: when it fits, how to serve it at each age on the baby-led weaning and purée tracks, and what to watch for. Baby multigrain cereal, goat milk, chocolate milk, pickles, banana bread and imitation crab, and the everyday table: fried rice, chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, potato salad, coleslaw, enchiladas, corn dogs, tzatziki, raita, acai, cheesecake, brownies, frozen yogurt and granola bars. Multigrain cereal counts as a wheat food, since most boxes contain wheat. Goat milk explains why it waits until 12 months as a drink and never goes into homemade formula. Chocolate milk is an occasional small taste from about 12 months, not a regular drink through age 5. Imitation crab counts as fish, egg and wheat; most brands add a little real crab, too little to count as a first taste of shellfish, but if shellfish is on hold for your baby, or your baby reacts to imitation crab, the app holds it the way it holds shrimp. Saying them works too: "chocolate milk" used to log Chocolate, "banana bread" logged banana and bread, "crab sticks" logged real crab, and "chicken noodle soup" logged chicken and pasta; each now logs its own food. Chocolate and champurrado now count as the milk most of them contain, and chocolate as soy too. Typing "kani" finds imitation crab first. And two pages are corrected: pickled beets are a sugar question more than a salt one, and imitation crab usually does contain a little real crab.
Why: When the food your baby ate is not in the list, you end up typing it in by hand, and an allergen in it can go unrecorded.
- A nap logged twice counts once
When two of you log the same nap, or a sleep is added over one already there, the minutes they share now count once: on Today, the Sleep tab, the sitter page, Trends, the Checkup, the last 24 hours sheet, Patterns and what changed this week. Before, one nap logged on two phones read as two naps and twice the sleep. When a nap and a night share minutes, the night keeps them. Adding a past sleep, editing one, starting one at an earlier time or moving a running sleep's start now asks first when it overlaps another sleep, and so does a sleep longer than 18 hours, including Wake up on a timer left running that long, since a sleep that long does not count in sleep totals. Smaller fixes: Today shows its tiles loading for a moment instead of a day of zeros, and the Getting started list waits until your logs are in. The screening visit card on Today goes away once that visit is logged and its day has passed. A gain under a pound reads in ounces ("Gained 14.3 oz"). A dose's delete question no longer says "1 dose dose", the meal editor says Update meal, the nursing timer tip stops once you have used the timer, and each page's browser tab now names the page, never your baby.
Why: Two people looking after one baby should never make the day look longer than it was, and a question is better than a number that quietly does not add up.
- No allergen nudges before solids, and the sitter page waits out a watch
Before solids, the allergen radar on the Food tab no longer says "try this next" or "try it", and tapping an allergen opens what has been logged and its guide instead of the logger. Allergens not yet tried read "from about 6 months". If your pediatrician has you starting sooner, log the first bite and the radar works as before. With no birthday on file and nothing logged, it waits the same way. On the sitter page, a food whose allergen is still being watched is no longer listed as "Already tried, no reaction", and a family allergy is no longer called "OK to serve" while its first try is being watched. Those read "first tried today, still watching" instead. If you are signed in, the "Log it today" buttons on food pages now open your own logger with the food picked, which knows what your baby has had before, and Start free takes you to Today. They used to open the guest form, which logged a first try even for a food logged months ago. A bottle or a top-up much bigger than one feed for your baby's age now asks before it saves, and so do Same as last and the bottle button on Today when they repeat one. Nothing is refused: tap OK and it saves as you typed it. The fever story on Health counts the doses given during that fever, however long ago it was, and when it cannot read them it no longer says "no meds logged". And Patterns, the monthly letter, Firsts and the firsts poster say "Add your baby" for an account with no baby yet, instead of a blank page or a page that never finished loading.
Why: An app that says solids start around 6 months should not suggest peanut to a newborn, and a sitter should never read "no reaction" about a food tried this morning.
- Undo, edits and imports keep exactly what you logged
Undo now takes back only what really happened, for the right baby. Undo on a pump whose milk never reached the stash leaves the stash alone, and Undo on a removed pump puts back only the milk that came out. Undo tapped after you switch babies puts the entry back for its own baby, and the list you are looking at stays the other baby's. Undo on something you logged offline takes it off the list even after it has synced. Undo on a meal you just logged takes all of it back or none of it, and says so when it cannot, and a nursing timer that logged two feeds says how many are still logged if it could take back only one. A meal you deleted and brought back keeps its foods in the order you added them, and an allergen watch you had closed stays closed. Editing is steadier too. An edit open on something logged offline stays open, with what you typed, when it syncs. A save that finishes after you closed the editor no longer closes the next thing you opened, and an edit left open when you switch babies closes, instead of popping back up later without your changes. Changing one part of a mixed bottle leaves the other part exactly as it was. Saving a new time on a dose never adds a unit you did not pick. "Same as last" and Today's bottle button repeat the exact amount, so an imported 100 ml bottle no longer comes back as 100.55 ml. Saying "I bought him a new toothbrush" no longer logs a toothbrushing: say "brushed his teeth" or "brushed with his toothbrush". Importing the same Nara file again now brings over a toothbrushing at the same minute as a bath, and a file from Huckleberry or another tracker that lists a bottle as just "4", with no unit anywhere, now shows it as 4 oz, not 118 ml. And a texture you set in the Flavor Explorer before the texture ladder still counts: ticking a lower rung no longer moves your baby back down, and the next question asks about the rung above.
Why: Undo and Save should do exactly what you asked, to the entry you meant, and nothing else.
- Changes you make while the app is syncing now stick
When something you logged without a connection is on its way to the server and you change it, remove it or tap Undo at that moment, the server now gets that change too. Before, the app said saved or removed while the server kept the old entry: a corrected bottle stayed at its old amount, a removed feed came back, a dose you took back with Undo stayed logged, and Wake up on a nap started offline left the nap running. Undo on a Wake up now starts the nap again on the server too, not just on your phone. With the app open in two tabs, only one sends what is waiting, and a temperature logged offline is saved once. A temperature logged offline at the same minute and reading as one logged before now saves as well, and its Undo removes only itself. Undo on a removed bottle or combo feed you imported, tapped without a connection, now brings it back with its amount. And a nap started offline while another phone already has a sleep running no longer disappears: it waits on Today, marked "another sleep is running", and syncs once that sleep ends, or you can discard it.
Why: What the app tells you it saved should be what is saved, with a connection or without one.
- Safer suggestions, and reaction advice that matches our allergen pages
When you log a reaction in the Solids tab, the examples and the advice under it now follow the same tiers as our allergen pages: hives that spread or vomiting mean call 911, the same as swelling or trouble breathing, and only a rash or a few hives around the mouth gets the "call your pediatrician" step. The sitter page says the same. If a reaction was logged after one food while another food with the same allergen is being watched, the watch now names the food the reaction came after, and that food's tile in Explore shows the reaction instead of a calm countdown. The app's suggestions got more careful too. Toddler meal ideas now count the egg, milk and wheat that dishes like meatballs, fish pie and mashed potato usually carry, so a toddler who reacted to one, or has not had it yet, is not offered them. A mix-in after a yummy that names several allergens, like a nut or seed butter, waits until every one is introduced, and a food on hold gets no mix-in card at all. A food with a reaction logged is never the favorite we suggest serving new foods beside. What to try next keeps back the 12-month foods when there is no birthday, never suggests a food with a red safety warning, brings in one new allergen at a time, and names nuts by the form a baby can have (ground, or a thinned butter). Muffins, pudding, shrikhand, yogurt melts and tinned baked beans carry added sugar, so they now start from about 12 months like cake and cookies, and so do honey-free graham crackers. Shrimp is listed as minced, the way a baby starting solids has it. The meal planner sticks to starting-solids recipes until it knows your baby's age, and Fallen out of rotation no longer lists foods you added yourself. A sleep timer stopped after more than 18 hours no longer gets a cheer, and it no longer moves the bedtime estimate. If the nursing timer is stopped on another phone, a top-up bigger than a whole day of milk is not added without asking; we say so and let you add it. The signs that a food jag needs your pediatrician now show to everyone. And search no longer lists Custard apple, Za'atar and a few others twice, and the seed warning shows whichever one you pick.
Why: Safety advice should say the same thing everywhere, and nothing we suggest should ever be something we would tell you to hold off on.
- When a sitter's access ends, so do their notifications
When you give someone access for a set number of days, the notifications they get about your baby now stop when that access ends: medicine reminders, the "still asleep?" check-in, allergen rotation reminders, recall alerts and the rest. Before, a sitter whose time was up could no longer open your baby's log, but some of these kept arriving on their phone with your baby's name in them. You, and anyone whose access has not ended, get them just as before.
Why: Access that ends should end everywhere, on their phone too.
- Your bottle unit stays yours, and a comma works as a decimal
An update earlier today started a phone that had never picked a bottle unit in the one its region uses. On a phone set to Mexico, the UK, France or anywhere else that measures in ml, a family that has always logged ounces found the bottle form in ml, so 4 saved as 4 ml. The app now goes by your own history first: a unit you picked on the phone, then the unit your family logs bottles and pumps in, then the unit the phone last logged in. Only a family with nothing logged yet starts in the region's unit. The nursing timer's top-up and the pump form follow the same rule. A bottle already saved keeps the amount and unit it was saved with, so if one of today's bottles saved in ml by mistake, tap it on the Feeds tab to fix it or remove it. You can also type a comma for the decimal now, in bottle, top-up and pump amounts, in doses and medicine reminders, and in the checkup's weight, length and head: 6,9 kg is 6.9 kg, and 2,5 mL is 2.5 mL, where a phone set to English could read it as 25. If an amount or a measurement you typed does not read as a number, the app asks about it and saves nothing, where the checkup used to save the rest and leave the weight out. Minutes and a reminder's number of days take whole numbers, and anything else is asked about too: an edit no longer clears the minutes you had, and a course no longer turns into one day.
Why: A phone's region is a guess. What you have been logging for months is not.
- Log toothbrushing
The Activity tab has a new kind: đȘ„ Toothbrushing. Tap it and Log, with a note if you like. It never asks how long, because nobody times a baby's toothbrush. Like the other activities, it shows on Today's timeline, turns into a one-tap button at the top of the tab once you have logged it, and comes with you in your data download. You can say it too: "brushed his teeth". Saying your baby is teething never logs one. And a Brush teeth or Toothbrushing routine you added in Nara Baby now comes across when you import.
Why: One of us has been handing her son a toothbrush to "brush" his teeth for a month now, and there was nowhere to log it.
- Every page looks and works the same way
Words in red and green, like the editor's Delete, a fever reading, a stale price and your savings totals, now use darker shades that are easy to read in bright light and in dark mode. A few buttons that drew as plain gray boxes are proper buttons and links again, and the small links on Today, like Journey and Keep offering, are easier to tap. The boxes that stayed light in dark mode (the yellow tags on the allergen grid, the gift card and the allergen watch banner) now follow it, and a button you cannot press yet looks the same in both. When you are signed in, Feedback, gifting and a page that is not found now stay inside the app, with its Back button. Two pages were both called Family: they are now Your babies and Family feed, and the menu says Settings, as the page does. Handoff, Health, the last 24 hours and Savings now line up with the edges of every other page. Settings uses one kind of switch for every setting, Health uses one Add button, and its temperatures and doses show the newest six with Show all. Formula deals no longer say "Tracking prices for null". And every feature that is part of Plus now shows the same card, with the same words, on every page. Every page now starts the same way, with its name and emoji at the top and print or share right under it, and the pages share one look for card headings, empty pages, loading and number tiles. Every list of what you logged now uses the same bigger row: tap it to change the entry, or tap â in a tab's list to remove it.
Why: It should all feel like one app. When one page looks different from the rest, it should be for a reason you can see.
- The same milk, sleep and averages read the same everywhere
A bottle now reads the same on every screen: ounces to a tenth (4 oz, 3.5 oz) and millilitres in whole numbers (120 ml). The checkup report, Patterns, Trends and the milk stash used to round the same milk in different ways, and the visit pages wrote "mL" where everything else says "ml". The checkup report's averages now count full days only, so a few feeds logged this morning no longer pull "feeds a day" down on the day of the visit. Milk by bottle a day now comes out the same on the report, in Trends and in the week table (an occasional bottle reads as occasional everywhere), and naps a day the same on the report and in Trends. The Sleep tab and the sitter page now count today's sleep from midnight, as the tile on Today does, so at 7 AM after a full night all three show the hours slept since midnight, where the Sleep tab and the sitter page showed no sleep until the first nap. The running timer on the Sleep tab now says whether it is a nap or the night, and asks "Still asleep?" after a long stretch, like the card on Today. And if you have never picked a bottle unit, the app now starts in the one your phone's region uses: ounces in the US, ml in most other places. A unit you pick always stays.
Why: The same bottle, nap or day should never read as two different numbers depending on where you look, least of all on the page you hand your pediatrician.
- One rule for a timer left running, check-ins for one-tap naps, and textures in one place
A sleep timer left running past 18 hours now counts as no sleep on every screen: Trends, the Checkup, the visit numbers, the day's totals, the sleep card and the sitter page all leave it out, and Trends, the Checkup and the last 24 hours sheet name its date so you can fix it. Before, each screen drew that line in a different place or not at all, so one forgotten timer could add most of a day to a sleep average, and the visit numbers left out a long night even when it was real. A nap started with one tap on Today, or by saying so, now gets the same "still asleep?" check-in as the Sleep tab, 2 hours in and off during your quiet hours, but only if notifications are already on. It never asks to turn them on. The running sleep card says when it will check in and now lets you turn it off. A sleep started at an earlier time no longer gets a check-in that is already due: that one used to arrive the moment you started it. For a baby under 1, the stool notes now list no pee in 3 or more hours as a sign of dehydration, the American Academy of Pediatrics' line for a baby with diarrhea, and from 12 months it stays more than 8 hours. The guide to mucus in baby poop now says the same. And the texture ladder is now the one place textures are kept: the Flavor Explorer's texture question ticks the next rung on it, and the Explorer, Today's suggested bite and the Checkup all go by the highest rung you ticked.
Why: The same baby should get the same answer on every screen, and a check-in should come when it helps, not the second you log a nap.
- The right baby from a guide, and one answer on sugar and iron
Logging a food, a bottle or a diaper from one of our guides while signed in now goes to the baby you have open, not whichever one came up first. The iron card on Today now counts eggs and baby oatmeal cereal, along with the rest of the CDC's list of iron sources, and says what it counts. And the sitter page now says no added sugar before age 2, like our guides do, instead of only in the first year. It and the sugar guide also note that the 2025 federal guidelines go further, to age 4. The spice and food pages that said the first year now say age 2, and sweet foods like cake, cookies and pie still start from about 12 months, as an occasional small taste rather than a regular food.
Why: Each of these was one thing said two ways in two places. Now there is one answer, and it is the same wherever you look.
- Every kind of entry saves, undoes and syncs the same way
Editing a feed or an activity now saves only what you changed. Before, saving wrote back everything the form opened with, so if two of you had the same entry open, one fixing the minutes could undo the other's change, and an imported bottle edited only for its time could have its amount rounded. Undo now stays on screen for 6 seconds wherever it shows. After removing a feed, a diaper, a sleep, an activity or a pump from its tab, and after most new entries, it used to go sooner. An Undo on an activity, a pump, a meal, a dose or a temperature that cannot go through now says what is still there, and undoing a pump changes your milk stash only when the pump itself was removed or put back. A bottle bigger than a whole day of milk, like 120 typed with ounces picked, now asks before it saves, as a pump already did: on the Feeds tab, when you edit a feed, from the one-tap bottle on Today, on the nursing timer and by voice. And anything logged with no signal now syncs when your connection comes back or when you come back to the app, on whatever page you are on. Before, it waited until you opened Today.
Why: You should not have to learn different rules for each kind of entry. When one works better, they all should.
- One way to log and fix a dose or a temperature
The Meds tab in the logger and the Health page now share one form for logging a dose and one editor for fixing it. On the Health page you can now say when a dose was given or a temperature was taken, a time later than now is caught, and a dose saved with no signal says it will sync instead of saying it was logged. Fixing a dose shows the same "more than a usual dose" line, with the Poison Control number, that logging one does, and holds it to the same limits. A dose logged without an amount, from a repeat button or a reminder, can now have its time fixed without typing an amount, and a fix saves only what you changed. Deleting a dose or a temperature asks first and offers Undo, and an imported one comes back as imported. A temperature can now be logged with no signal and syncs when you are back online, and a dose or a reading logged offline can be fixed or removed once it has synced. The fever recap now reads a Celsius peak to one decimal, like every reading.
Why: Two forms for the same dose, each able to do different things, meant a safety line showed in one place and not the other. Now there is one of each, and it does everything either could.
- The mics on Diapers, Feeds and Meds hear the day you say
Holding the Log button already heard a day like "yesterday" or "last night", and so did the Activity tab. Now the mics on the Diapers, Feeds and Meds tabs do too. "Wet diaper yesterday at 5pm" is saved at 5 PM yesterday, and "gave Tylenol last night at 7" fills in 7 PM yesterday. Before, both landed on today. When the day or time cannot be placed, like "dirty diaper last night", nothing is saved: the time field opens with what you said filled in, and you are asked to set the day and time. Saying a bottle of whole, 2% or oat milk on the Feeds tab now opens Solids, where milk is logged as a food, instead of filling in a bottle that saved as breast milk or formula. A dose said with a day while holding the Log button, like "two days ago" or "last night at 7", now opens Meds instead of being saved for today. And turning voice off in Settings now also turns off holding the Log button to talk, and the tip about it.
Why: A diaper, feed or dose on the wrong day shows up wrong on Today, in Trends and in the checkup report. And a switch that turns voice off should turn all of it off.
- The Solids mic hears the day you say
Say "peas last night at 6" into the Solids mic, or into the Today mic, and the bite is now filled in for 6 PM yesterday. Before, the Solids mic only heard "yesterday", and a time said with any other day went on today, so "last night at 6" said in the morning became 6 AM today. When the day or time can't be pinned down, like "last night" with no time, "two days ago" or "on Monday", the When fields open and the app asks you to set them instead of guessing. Toddler meals now also leave out a meal with a top allergen your toddler hasn't had yet, as the meal planner does, and say which ones. And a bite logged as Meh or Yucky now just says Bite logged, without the yummy face.
Why: An allergen watch counts from the day a food was first eaten, so that has to be the day you said. And a new allergen is best tried on its own first, not inside a meal idea.
- Every food idea now leaves out an allergen you are holding
If an allergen is on hold for your baby, because of a logged reaction, your care plan, or imported history you have not answered yet, no food idea in the app suggests it now. A few places missed that before. Toddler meals now leave out any meal with a held allergen, including one its name or note mentions, like hummus or soy sauce, and say which allergens they left off. The food jag page no longer lists a held food, a food with a logged reaction, or a food you added yourself, as one to keep offering or to put on every plate. Keep offering on Today and Keep Trying now also leaves out foods with a logged reaction, foods you added yourself, and foods your baby is not old enough for yet. In the logger, Popular first foods leaves out a held egg or peanut, and the count of times you offered a food and the keep offering message stay quiet for a held food, for a food with a reaction logged before, and when Had a reaction is ticked. Variety this week no longer tells you a baby with milk on hold is light on dairy. The Flavor Explorer no longer suggests Za'atar, which has sesame, when sesame is on hold, or a spice that is already in your log.
Why: A reaction or a hold is a question for your pediatrician, and the app should never nudge you past it. Now one check decides what every screen may suggest, so a new screen cannot leave it out.
- A reaction on a later bite now shows on the allergen watch
If you logged a reaction on a later bite of a new allergen food rather than the first one, Today could still show its watch with days left and a No reaction button, while the Allergen radar showed the reaction. Now a reaction logged with that allergen on any bite in the last 3 days counts on its watch, even one logged just before the new food was first tried, so Today, the Allergen radar, the sitter page and the questions before a checkup all show it. A reaction logged while a watch is open keeps it open for 3 days after the reaction, so one logged on the last day is still there the next morning. A reaction logged after you tapped No reaction brings the watch back. In the Food library, an allergen food now stays on watch through its last day, as it does on Today, and no longer says introduced when that allergen is on your care plan, held after a reaction, or only came from another app. Watching now counts foods, so a custard is one food, not two, and the note about introducing new allergens one at a time shows only when two or more foods are being watched. Handoff keeps its feed estimate quiet during a reaction, as Today does. And Journey suggests only the major allergens as new allergens to introduce, not clams or buckwheat.
Why: A reaction is the one thing an allergen watch is there to catch, so every screen has to agree on it.
- Savings sets your cash against the plan you are on
If you pay for Plus monthly, the Savings page now measures your confirmed cash savings against a year of monthly payments, and says so. Before, it used the yearly price for everyone. Yearly subscribers see the same figure as before.
Why: The point of the page is whether Plus is paying for itself, and that only means something against what you actually pay.
- One way to edit anything you logged, from Today or from the logger
Tapping â on an entry on Today now opens the same form the logger uses for that kind of entry, filled in with what you logged, on any day you can step back to. Save, Delete or Cancel takes you back to Today, and the day you were looking at updates. Before, Today had small editors of its own that could do less. For a bite or a meal, you can now change, add or remove a food from Today, and you see the same allergen and safety notes a new bite shows. The form also says, for each food, how many times it was logged before that bite, so a first that was not really a first is easy to spot. In a meal you can mark which foods were a first, and give each food its own reaction severity and notes. Saving a bite or meal saves only what you changed, so two people fixing the same meal no longer undo each other. Deleting a bite or meal asks first and offers Undo, from Today and from Recent bites in the logger, and an imported bite comes back as imported. A video on a bite now shows, with Remove, for every family, and removing a photo or video asks before it saves. You can now change the side of a nursing feed. An activity logged with no signal can be edited or removed once it has synced. And fixing the amount of a dose or a temperature reading no longer rewrites its time.
Why: Two edit screens for the same entry, each able to do different things, was confusing. Now each kind of entry has one, and it is the one that could do the most.
- Shellfish means shrimp, crab and lobster, and clams have their own line
On the allergen tracker, shellfish now counts crustaceans only: shrimp, crab, lobster, crawfish and prawns. Clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, squid and octopus are mollusks, and they are tracked on their own, still with a reaction watch after a first try. If your baby has only had mollusks, shellfish now shows as not yet introduced, and the tracker says why once. A reaction logged with a clam or a mussel still keeps shrimp, crab and lobster out of every suggestion, and out of the rotation reminder, until your pediatrician says otherwise. The checkup report lists mollusks on a line of their own. Our food pages changed too: fully cooked shellfish can start from around 6 months, minced or blended, with small soft pieces from about 9 months. Whole nuts now wait until age 5, and whole beans stay mashed or flattened until about age 4.
Why: The FDA names crustacean shellfish as one of the nine major allergens, not mollusks, and a baby can react to one group and not the other. Counting a clam as shellfish could tell you shrimp was covered when it was not. The age changes follow the NHS, the CDC and the NIAID peanut guidelines, and where they differ we take the later age.
- A notification opens its page even right after an update
In the Android and iPhone apps, tapping a notification soon after we had put out an update could open Today instead of the page the notification was about, like your monthly letter. Coming back to the app is when it picks up an update, and that reload could cancel the page you tapped. Now the page you tapped wins.
Why: A notification is about one thing. Tapping it should take you to that thing.
- When your baby arrives, Today says welcome
When you save your baby's real birthday, from the question on Today that asks whether your baby has arrived or in Manage baby, Today now shows a welcome card with the day your baby was born. It stays for 24 hours on the phone where you saved it, or until you close it. Firsts now also starts where your baby did, with the day they were born, for every baby with a birthday saved.
Why: Saving the birthday used to bring up a one-line message that disappeared after a few seconds. It is a bigger day than that.
- Expecting? Add your baby before the big day
If you add your baby with a birthday that has not happened yet, the app now asks under the date whether it is your due date. Keep it, and we count from it until your baby arrives. A date more than 10 months away gets a gentle check of the year instead, and nothing stops you saving either one. Until your baby comes, Today shows a Getting ready card in place of an empty day: the due date, and a few things worth doing now, like inviting your partner or a caretaker, having a look at the logger, and reading our newborn guides. When you log a feed, a sleep or a diaper before the due date, or when the due date comes, Today asks whether your baby has arrived, with a date to set the real birthday. Nothing changes until you tap Save, and Not yet puts the question away. Before the birthday, the logger starts on feeds, a printed report says Due instead of Born, and the milestone checklist, the first 100 days and the Flavor Explorer each say when they begin. The checklist and the Explorer used to ask for a birthday you had already given us.
Why: A family added their baby with a birthday three days away, almost certainly the due date, and the app had nothing to say to them. You are welcome here before your baby is.
- A gift scheduled for a date arrives on that date where you live
When you buy a gift of Plus and pick a day to send it, that day now means your day. Before, the date was read as the date in UTC, so a gift bought on an evening in the Americas for the next day could be emailed that same evening, and one bought in New Zealand or eastern Australia could arrive a day late. If you pick a date and then clear the recipient's email, the date is now dropped too, so your receipt no longer says it will email the gift to nobody, and Your gifts lists it as ready to hand over instead of scheduled. Dates on your receipt, on the page after you pay and in Your gifts now read like October 5, 2026.
Why: A gift for a baby shower should arrive on the day of the shower, not the night before or the day after.
- The Plus page says what you have, in the apps too, and names a payment that did not go through
In the iPhone and Android apps, the Plus page showed everyone one line: Plus is managed on the web. It now shows what you have: Plus through your family, a gift and when it ends, Plus given to your account, or your own subscription and where it is managed. A payment that did not go through is now named there and in Settings, and on the web both offer Update your card. The Settings link is now called Your plan. On the web, when your billing details could not load, the Plus page said there was no card on file and hid Manage subscription. It now says they did not load and keeps the button. A gift is named by its length where we can read it, so a two-year gift no longer reads as a gifted year. During a free trial, the page says when the trial ends. Coming back from checkout says your subscription is active only once Plus is on for your account. A checkout that fails now says what went wrong, and a billing page that cannot open says so in plain words instead of passing on an error with our account details in it. Deleting your account now warns that a gift ends with it. The pricing page's trial button takes you on to the Plus page after you sign up, the Support page no longer mentions App Store or Google Play subscriptions, which we do not have, and the first-bite video note no longer offers a free trial to a family whose card did not go through.
Why: The Plus page is where you check what you are paying for, or what someone gave you. It should say that plainly wherever you open it, and never tell you something about your card or your subscription that is not true.
- A food logged offline that your baby has had before no longer stays a first
With no signal, the Solids tab cannot check whether your baby has had a food before, so a food you log offline counts as a first taste, and an allergen food starts a watch on the allergen radar. That has not changed. But the bite then stayed a first for good, even for a food your baby ate last week: it kept its đ on Today, and a month later Today could bring it back as "the first taste of" that food. Now the phone that logged it checks your log once the bite has synced and any watch it started is over. If the log already has a first taste of that same food on an earlier day, the bite stops counting as a first. Otherwise it stays one. The check never ends a watch early and never changes which allergens the radar shows as introduced, or when. It leaves alone a bite with a reaction, and every food in a meal where you set "First time trying" yourself or said "first time".
Why: A first should be the first time. Offline, the app still counts a food as a first rather than miss one, because a missed first is a missed watch.
- Today's bite no longer tells you to serve a new food on the same plate as a spice
Today's bite can suggest serving a new food on the same plate as a favorite. It picked the favorite from the foods your baby has loved most, and nothing checked that it was a food you would put on a plate. A parent who stirs ginger into her son's cereal was told to serve kefir on the same plate as ginger. Now the favorite it names is always a food your baby eats on its own: never a spice or herb, an oil or butter, a sauce, a nut butter, ground nuts or seeds, a flour or a drink. It is never a food you added yourself either, since the app cannot know what that is. If there is no such favorite, the card gives a different reason instead. A food counts as a favorite once it has been loved about as often as the other foods your baby loves, and a spice that goes into every meal no longer raises that bar, so the cereal it goes into can count. When the new food is an herb, it now suggests adding a pinch to a favorite our add-in tips pair it with, like chives in scrambled egg, and if your log shows a spice your baby loves already goes into one of those favorites, it picks that one. A favorite that carries an allergen on hold is no longer named either. The same goes for the new pairings and the "is a hit" tip in the Flavor Explorer. And no suggestion offers garlic, butter, ground nuts, a spice or another add-in as a new food to try by itself, whether on Today's bite, in the Flavor Explorer and its world passport, under What to try next on Journey, or as Something new in the meal planner. A new herb only comes up as a pinch in a food your baby loves. A thinned nut or seed butter is still suggested as a way to start peanut, tree nuts or sesame, since that is the usual first form. On Keep trying, a spice or oil your baby loves no longer counts as a favorite on the plate when we check whether new foods go over better next to one.
Why: A pinch of ginger in the cereal is a lovely add-in, not a food to set beside a new one. Every reason on that card is meant to be true of your own baby's log.
- "Happened earlier?" sits in the same place on every tab
On Activities and on Meds, the link to log something at an earlier time now sits right above the Log button, the way it does on Feeds, Diapers and Sleep. It still works for everything on the tab, including the one-tap chips: set the time first, then tap. On Meds, "Actually, it was just now" now reads "Use now instead", like the other tabs.
Why: A lot gets logged after the fact. The way to do that should be in the same spot on every tab, not something to hunt for.
- Undo puts back a bite, meal, feed or pump from another app as imported
If you deleted a bite or a meal on Today that came over from another app and tapped Undo, it came back as if you had logged it here. If the allergen in that food had only ever come from your old app, the app then counted it as introduced with no reaction, though you had never answered the import's question about it, and could suggest keeping it in rotation. Undo now puts it back as it was, so that allergen stays held until you answer. Undo on a feed or a pump from another app keeps it imported too, so Undo this import still removes it.
Why: An allergen from another app's history waits for your word on how it went. Undoing a delete should never answer that for you.
- Sleep edits keep their times, an early bedtime reads as the night, and Undo on a sleep says what happened
Editing a sleep on the Sleep tab or on Today, or fixing the start of a running sleep, now saves only a time you change. Before, every save rewrote both times to the minute, so importing the same Nara Baby file again added an edited sleep a second time, and on the night the clocks go back, a sleep in the second 1 AM moved an hour. A sleep logged or started with no signal can now be removed, edited or ended once it syncs, without closing the Sleep tab or reloading the app. Tapping Undo after Wake up with no signal now puts the timer back, where it did nothing and the sleep still ended once you were back online, and an Undo that cannot put it back says so. Undo on a sleep you just logged says when it could not remove it, and Undo on a sleep removed from Today says when it will sync, in the Sleep tab's words. A sleep you brought over from another app, removed and then put back with Undo, now still goes when you undo that import, where it stayed behind as if you had logged it. A bedtime earlier than usual now reads as night sleep on the Today card once your baby's usual night has started, instead of a nap, and no longer asks at 1 AM whether they are still asleep. The Sleep tab's total for the day counts it the same way. The bedtime window on Today now uses night-time hours with a source behind them: 9 to 12 hours from 8 to 12 months (Nemours KidsHealth) and 10 to 12 from 13 months to 2 years (Sydney Children's Hospitals Network). Before 8 months and from 3 years, where no source gives night-time hours, it shows no bedtime window. In Trends, a child 6 or older now sees 9 to 12 hours, all of it at night, where the card said 3 to 5 years. And the shape of a day on Patterns counts naps, feeds and changes from days that are over, so today's first nap no longer pulls the count down.
Why: A sleep you only looked at should not come back twice, and a baby asleep for the night should not be asked about like a long nap. A bedtime window is only worth showing when a source stands behind its hours.
- The diaper and wipes counts on the Diapers tab keep up with what you log, and a second wipes count saves
On the Diapers tab, "About 100 left" now goes down as soon as you log a change there, and back up if you remove it, instead of waiting until you open the tab again. Saving the wipes count a second time could say "Could not save that." and bring the old number back after a reload. It now saves, and so does a second count for a diaper item with no brand or size. Opening the wipes count and saving the number the app filled in no longer counts as a recount, and a real recount is now measured against every change since your last count, so "your rate" comes from your counts. "Set exact" on a diaper item now shows that item's own count, not the count of the one worn daily. "Pick your exact line" now opens the item it is about, count and all, instead of adding a new empty one. Undo after removing a change that came in with an import keeps it part of that import, so undoing the import still takes it. A change logged with no signal can be removed or edited after it syncs, without closing the tab first. And Undo right after logging a change now says when it could not undo it.
Why: A running count only helps if it moves when you log, and a rate we call yours should come from what you counted, not from our own guess.
- Firsts make sense before solids, and switching babies shows the right firsts
Before solids, Firsts asked the parent of a newborn to log the first bite, and left out the baby's sleep firsts, like the first long stretch and the first time through the night. Those only showed once a food first was in. Sleep firsts now show at any age, and before solids the page says food firsts start once solids do. If they cannot load, Firsts says so with a way to try again. Switching babies on Firsts could show the other baby's firsts under this baby's name until a reload. It now shows only the baby you picked. Switching babies while a photo was still uploading to a first could break the Firsts page. The photo still saves, and the page carries on. Dates on the Firsts list now read like Aug 1, 2026 instead of 2026-08-01.
Why: Most families start in the newborn months, when sleep firsts are the firsts there are. And a keepsake is about one baby, so a brother's or sister's foods under the wrong name is the one thing it cannot get wrong.
- In Plus: Journey makes sense before solids, and Recap shows the right baby
Journey was all about bites before solids, down to "Next up: First bite!". Before solids it now shows the sleep firsts and leaves what to try next, the numbers and the badges until solids start. It shows sleep firsts at every age, and if they cannot load, it says so with a way to try again. Switching babies on Recap could show the other baby's foods, favorites or kept moments under this baby's name. It now shows only the baby you picked. And if your baby started solids early, Recap no longer says first foods fill in once solids start above the foods it is showing.
Why: Most families start in the newborn months, when sleep firsts are the firsts there are. And a keepsake is about one baby, so a brother's or sister's foods under the wrong name is the one thing it cannot get wrong.
- The checkup report keeps each baby's dates apart and lists everything it names
With two babies, a checkup date typed on the checkup report for one baby stayed in the date box after you switched to the other, and one tap saved it as that baby's checkup. A weight typed and not yet saved did the same. Switching babies now clears both, and until the report has read the next baby's saved dates it shows no checkup date, instead of the first baby's. Under "Worth asking" near the top of the report, "Not introduced yet" named only the first five allergens, so a baby with seven to go read as if five were all. It now names every one, along with every food a reaction was logged to, not just the first three, and every allergen being watched after a reaction, not just the first two. The diaper notes from the last week print the newest 12 and now say how many more there were, and the temperatures section recaps every fever in the report's days, not only the newest three. On Handoff, "While you were away" counted a sleep that began before its window at full length, so a night from 8 PM to 8:30 AM added all 12 and a half hours to "In the last 12 hours". It now counts only the part inside the window.
Why: The checkup report is the page you hand the pediatrician, so every date and list on it has to belong to the baby named at the top, and a list that stops short should say so. A sleep total bigger than the hours it covers is no use to anyone.
- Your savings page shows a cost only if you pay one, and a free trial only if you can have it
The Your savings page set a year of Plus against your savings for everyone with Plus. So someone on a gifted year, a partner covered by the family's Plus, and anyone given Plus some other way saw a yearly charge they do not pay, and how far they were from paying it back. That line now shows only when you pay for Plus yourself, and it is labeled as the yearly plan's price, because the page cannot tell which plan you are on. Everyone else sees their total cash saved. Without Plus, the button offered a free trial even when you had already had one or your card had not gone through, and the Plus page then told you otherwise. It now offers the trial only when you can still have it, and says See Plus when you cannot. Two smaller fixes on the same page: a buy that cost more cash than the cheapest shelf price, such as one that earned a store gift card, now shows as minus instead of plus, and if your savings cannot load, the page says so instead of saying you have none yet.
Why: This page is there to show what the price tracking has saved you, so every number on it should be true for you. A charge you do not pay and a free trial you cannot have were not.
- A baby's settings page is about that baby
Going from one baby's settings to another's from the menu at the top kept the first baby's name, birthday and country in the form, so Save could put them on the other baby. Each baby's page now starts fresh. Adding someone to a baby now goes by that baby's own household, not by the baby picked in the menu, so a parent who cares for babies in two families is no longer told a baby has room for no one else when it does. If the page cannot check, it says nothing was sent and asks you to try again, instead of guessing. And a pause on messages about a baby, turned on from the other parent's phone, now reaches an app you left open: when you come back to it, or within about half an hour if it stays on screen.
Why: The settings page is where you decide who can see and log for a baby, so everything on it has to be about the baby named at the top. And a family who asked for quiet about a baby should get it on both parents' phones, not only the one where it was turned on.
- Trends reads the same nights as the checkup report, whatever the time
In Trends, the sleep card compares your baby's longest stretch over the last 7 nights with the 7 before. In the evening it read the oldest of those nights without its first stretch, so it could leave that night out or read it short, and disagree with the checkup report, which compares the same nights. It now reads all of them, whatever the time. The naps a day line on the same card always left out the oldest of the 7 days before, and now counts it. The "Typical at this age" card named the sleep line's age band at the top, but the milk and diaper lines each come from their own band, which can be a different one. It now names your baby's age instead, such as "5 weeks old". And the day rows now say "12 oz" instead of "12oz".
Why: Two screens that read the same nights should give the same answer.
- Naps counted as naps on the sitter page, and sleep reads that wait for the night to end
The sitter page counted every sleep since midnight as a nap, so a day with 2 naps could read "Naps: 4", with the end of last night and tonight's bedtime counted in. It now counts naps the way the Sleep tab does, telling them from the night by your baby's own bedtimes, and shows any night sleep on a line of its own. The free Sleep insights card in Trends read tonight as soon as its first stretch ended, so in the evening it could lead with a 40 minute "longest stretch" and count tonight among its nights. It now reads a night once it is over, at 6 AM and once the last sleep in it has ended, and its daytime average leaves today out until the day is done, as does the naps a day line in the checkup report. On Today, the nap window card kept saying "Next nap window" for a while after the window had passed. It now says "Nap window was" with the times, until it turns to "Awake a while". And in Trends, "Typical at this age" gave a 3-month-old 12 to 16 hours of sleep a day. The National Sleep Foundation gives 14 to 17 hours from birth through 3 months, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine range, which the AAP endorses, starts at 4 months, so a 3-month-old now sees 14 to 17. From 4 months to a year the card now says 12 to 16 hours throughout, where 9 to 11 months said 12 to 15 hours. Nap counts now follow Nemours KidsHealth: 2 to 3 from 4 months, where 3 to 5 months said 3 to 4. Before 4 months no source gives a count, so in place of 4 to 6 naps the card says sleep comes on and off around the clock.
Why: A sitter who reads four naps, or a parent who reads last night as 40 minutes, gets the wrong picture of the day. And an age range is only worth showing when it matches the sources behind it.
- Pumps and formula in your own units, and mixed bottles count their formula
Logging a pump asked for ounces only, so 120 typed as ml was saved as 120 oz. The pump sheet now opens in the unit you log bottles in, with oz and ml to switch, and saves the pump in that unit. A very large pump asks before it saves, in case the unit is off. The formula stash now takes powder in grams as well as ounces, and starts in grams if you log bottles in ml. In a bottle of breast milk and formula, the formula was left out when "Set exact" worked out the powder left and when "Bought more" added a can, so both put that formula back in your stash, and the heads-up that formula is running low came late. It counts now. Picking a different formula and tapping "Bought more" no longer adds your old formula's amount to the new one. And the restock radar on the savings page names your diapers the way you picked them, like "Pampers Swaddlers · Newborn", and never calls pumped breast milk formula.
Why: An amount in the wrong unit, or formula that never leaves the stash, makes the milk on hand look bigger than it is, and the reminder to restock comes after you needed it.
- Editing a meal on Today keeps each food's own rating
Each food in a meal keeps its own rating, and the Solids tab lets you rate one food differently from the rest. When you saved a change to a meal on Today, even just the amount, every food in it took the rating of one of them, so a yucky avocado next to a yummy banana was saved as yummy. Now each food in the meal editor has its own three faces, the big faces at the top set every food at once, and only a rating you change is saved. When the foods in a meal were rated differently, Today shows each one with its own face. A meal logged many bites back could show on Today with only some of its foods, and now shows all of them, in the row and in the editor. Rating or fixing a bite or meal you brought over from another app keeps its time to the second, so importing the same file again no longer adds it twice. A bite or meal you changed on the Solids tab opens on Today with that change, so fixing its amount on Today no longer puts back the old rating. And on small phones, the date and time in these editors stack instead of running off the screen.
Why: Keep trying counts a food as landed once it is rated yummy, so a yucky avocado saved as yummy dropped off the list of foods to keep offering. One save should not rewrite how every food on the plate went.
- Settings says when it could not load your recap and letter choice
For families who get the Sunday recap and the monthly letter: when their card in Settings could not read what you had chosen, for example with no connection, it showed the switch as On and "Email and notification" as picked, whatever your choice was, and tapping the choice it showed saved nothing. Now the card says it could not load the setting, with a Try again button, and shows no choice until it has read yours.
Why: Somebody who had turned the recap off, or picked notification only, could see the opposite there and think it had been changed.
- The monthly letter keeps your bottle unit after an import, counts one medicine once, and leaves out a nursing timer nobody stopped
The month in numbers, on the monthly letter and in its email, gives bottles and pumping in the unit you log them in. For history brought over from another app before mid-September, the entries from the day or so before the import counted as ones you logged here, so a family who logs in oz could see ml. They now count as part of the import. The checkup report and the visit glance pick the unit the same way, so they are fixed too. Doses of one medicine logged under different names, like Tylenol and Paracetamol, are now one line in the letter, named the way Today's dose card names them. A nursing feed logged at over 2 hours, which is usually a timer left running, still counts as a feed, but its minutes are left out of the month's nursing time, and a note under the numbers names the day, as it already did for a sleep logged over 18 hours.
Why: A letter is something you keep. Its numbers should be in your unit, and one forgotten timer should not add hours of nursing that never happened.
- Voice logs what you said, on the day and at the time you said it
When you hold the Log button and say it, a day you say now counts. "A bath last night at 7" is saved at 7 PM yesterday, and when the day or time cannot be placed, like "she had a bath last night" or "wet diaper yesterday at 5", nothing is saved and you are asked to add it with its day and time. The Activity tab's mic does the same. Two activities in one sentence, like "tummy time this morning and a bath at 5", are both logged, each at its own time, and a time said about one thing no longer lands on another: in "woke at 6:40, drank 5 oz, then pooped" only the wake is at 6:40. The list you confirm and the toast now say when. "Almost a blowout" and "blowout averted" no longer save a blowout, "wet no poop" said without a pause is a wet diaper, and "doctor said watch for blood" no longer saves blood. "She went down at 7" starts the nap timer at 7, "she woke up" ends it, and "went down at 7 and woke at 11" logs that sleep. A sleep's length is read whole, so "an hour and a half" is 90 minutes, and it starts at the time you said. "She won't go down" and "put her down for tummy time" start nothing. A dose, water or juice said with nursing is no longer saved as a top-up. Formula said by its brand, like Similac or Enfamil, is formula, and donor milk is breast milk. A bottle whose contents you did not say is saved with the ones you last picked, and the toast names them so you can change it. "I pumped 4 ounces" is no longer saved as a bottle: voice sends you to Milk supply on Feeds, where pumps are logged. "Left 10 right 8" is both sides, 18 minutes, and "nursed 10 minutes ago" is a time, not a length. A bottle with no amount, a feed said with a no, like "she refused her bottle", and a bottle said while the nursing timer runs are asked about instead of saved. A medicine said by any name the app knows, like Calpol or Nurofen, is heard as that medicine, never as a bottle, and a dose above the usual amount opens Meds with the Poison Control line instead of being saved straight away. And saying a meal now puts the foods you said on the Solids plate.
Why: Voice saves straight away, with no form to check, so it has to save what you meant or ask. A near miss counted as a blowout, a dose counted as milk, or a sleep saved hours off makes a day look like something it was not, and those numbers go into Trends, the checkup report and the monthly letter.
- A nursing feed with a few short breaks counts as one feed, and a bottle while the timer runs can be its top-up
With the nursing timer, a feed with two short breaks, like a burp on the first side and then a diaper change before the other side, could be saved as two feeds, though neither break was longer than 15 minutes. Today and Trends then counted two. A break of 15 minutes or less now stays inside the feed. To keep it there, a side with a break in it can be saved from when it started to when it ended, so the feed counts once everywhere. A longer break still starts a new feed, and the message after Done now says so. If you tap the bottle button on Today, or log a bottle on the Feeds tab, while the nursing timer is running, the app now asks whether it is the top-up for the feed being timed. Say yes and it is logged with that feed when you tap Done, as one feed. Say no and it is a bottle of its own, as before. Editing a feed keeps its time to the second unless you change it, so importing the same Nara Baby file again no longer adds that feed twice. Editing a mixed bottle on Today can no longer save a negative amount of breast milk. A feed logged with no signal can now be edited or removed on the Feeds tab after it syncs, without closing the tab first. The milk supply on the Feeds tab counts a bottle as soon as you log it there. Undo on the buttons at the top of Today now says when it could not undo something. "Same as last" on a bottle you imported no longer switches your unit to ml. And on a phone, the two amounts of a mixed bottle on the Feeds tab each get the whole width.
Why: One sitting should count as one feed however many breaks it takes, and a bottle you have already written down should never be counted twice.
- A newer Nara Baby export recognizes what you already brought over, even entries you edited here
If you brought your history over from Nara Baby and upload a newer export later, the entries already in your log are now recognized even after you changed them here: a feed, sleep, dose or temperature saved again from its editor, a wet diaper you changed to dirty, a bath you changed to play time, or a meal you rated on Today. Some of those used to come in a second time. Two changes are still read as new: an entry you moved to a different time, and a first you renamed, come over again as the export has them. A combo feed with under 30 seconds of nursing comes over as the bottle it was, and no nursing feed arrives as 0 minutes. Foods keep the day and time Nara showed, whatever time zone your phone is in. A bottle of breast milk and formula keeps both amounts, so the milk stash counts it and Today lets you change its time. Entries timed later than now are left out, and the preview says how many. From other apps: on an iPhone, dates like 8/13/2026 8:30 PM now read, a file with separate Date and Time columns imports, a date with no time stays on that day instead of the evening before, an amount in a column marked ml or oz keeps that unit, a duration like 1:30:00 reads as an hour and a half, diaper changes from UK and Australian apps are no longer read as naps, and a note is never turned into foods.
Why: An import moves months of your baby's history, so it has to be safe to run again with a newer file. A feed counted twice changes every total built on it, from the day's count to the monthly letter.
- Correction: before about 6 weeks, a breastfed baby who has not pooped in a day or two is a call
Our guide to a breastfed baby who has not pooped in a few days says that before about 6 weeks, a gap of 24 to 48 hours is worth a call. Four other newborn guides said that from 4 to 6 weeks a stool every few days is usually normal: newborn diaper counts, breastfed baby poop, how often a newborn should poop, and newborn poop in the first week. The newborn constipation and wet diapers guides drew the line at a month. The NHS and La Leche League put the start of the slowdown at about 6 weeks, later than the AAP's month, so every one of these guides now follows the later line. Until about 6 weeks, the NHS expects at least 2 yellow stools a day from day 4, and a sudden drop, or no stool in 24 to 48 hours, is a call to your pediatrician. After that, a few days between soft stools can be normal.
Why: A parent of a 5-week-old with no stool for three days could read "usually normal" on one of our pages and "call" on another. At that age a slowdown can be the first sign a baby is not getting enough milk, so every page now gives the same, more careful answer.
- A dose that cannot be right is caught before it is logged
A dose of 0 or less, a dose with no unit, and a dose far above any infant dose of a medicine on our list are now refused wherever a dose is logged: the Meds sheet, the Health page, Today, a medication reminder's Log now, and Log again. The app says what is wrong and logs nothing, so you can fix the amount. A medicine is checked under any of its names: Tylenol, Paracetamol, Calpol or Panadol as acetaminophen, and Motrin, Advil or Nurofen as ibuprofen. For a medicine that is not on our list, only an amount no single dose could be is refused. None of this suggests a dose. It only catches an amount that cannot be right: a possible amount is saved as you typed it.
Why: A reminder could be saved with a mistyped amount, and its Log now then logged it: -5 mL went into the log and counted on the dose card. A number like that should never reach the record a sitter or a doctor reads.
- Every food on the plate gets the safety checks, and a meal edit changes only what you changed
In a meal of several foods, the allergen pill, the caution about an allergen still being watched and the heads-up about a family allergy read the first food only. They now read every food on the plate. A reaction in a meal of several foods now asks which food it followed and is saved on that food, and Not sure marks every food. Editing a meal now changes only what you changed: each food keeps its own verdict, reaction and notes, a closed allergen watch stays closed, the photo stays put, and a food you add gets its own first-try check. If a save fails, the meal is left as it was and the form says so.
Why: An edit used to log every food again and delete the originals, so a reaction on any food but one, and the notes with it, could quietly go. And a second food on the plate is a food too: the checks that matter most were reading only the first.
- Voice hears a "no", and keeps a dose the way you said it
A medicine or a diaper detail said with a no is no longer logged. "No Tylenol today" logs no dose, and "dirty diaper, no blood" saves a dirty diaper without blood. "No Tylenol, gave Motrin" logs the Motrin. A dose keeps the amount and unit you said, so "gave 2.5 ml Tylenol" is 2.5 mL, and a dose given "due to" a fever is still logged. What sounds like advice or a limit, like "the doctor said 3.75 ml" or "up to 5 ml every 4 hours", is not logged as a dose: Meds opens and says what it heard. If you are moving from Nara Baby, each dose now comes across with its exact amount, as the medicine it is, and two doses given in the same minute both come across.
Why: Voice heard the medicine and missed the no in front of it, so "no Tylenol" could put a dose of Tylenol in the log. A dose nobody gave is worse than a blank, because the next one is timed from it.
- The allergen plan no longer suggests an allergen your baby reacted to or has not had
The allergen plan and the meal planner no longer suggest a meal with an allergen your baby reacted to, or one they have not had yet, and Log it will not add one. The planner names every allergen that is due, and when one is kept off the week it says why. When no meal fits, the plan says to offer each allergen on its own this week. And oat meals no longer count as wheat, because oats are not wheat.
Why: A new allergen is a food to introduce on purpose, one at a time, not one to find inside a suggested breakfast. And whether to offer a food again after a reaction is a question for your pediatrician.
- Correction: our symptom guides now say how fast to act on each warning sign
Eleven of our guides about poop, blood, mucus, rashes, spit-up, jaundice and crying put some warning signs in the wrong tier, so a sign that needs the ER could sit under "call the same day". They now sort each sign into the tiers the AAP, the CDC and the NHS use, and where two of them disagree the page follows the more urgent one. The jaundice guide listed every sign under "call the doctor the same day". A baby who is hard to wake, feeding poorly, having trouble breathing, has had no wet diapers, has a fever or a low temperature, or is under 24 hours old and yellow is now "call 911 or go to the ER now", and a baby still yellow after 2 weeks is a call to your pediatrician. The diarrhea guide said no pee in more than 8 hours was a red flag. It now says any diarrhea at 3 months or younger, and diarrhea with no pee in 3 or more hours, is a call right away, as the AAP says. The mucus guide makes a large amount of mucus a call right away. The blood in the diaper guide has its own 911 line for a stool like currant jelly, which can mean part of the bowel has slid into itself. The constipation and solids guide adds getting care right away for a constipated baby with a weak suck, a weak cry, droopy eyelids or floppiness, which can be infant botulism. The crying guide suggested a snug swaddle with no end date. It now says to swaddle on the back with the hips loose, and to stop at the first signs of trying to roll or at 2 months at the latest, then use a sleep sack with the arms out.
Why: A list of warning signs only helps if it says which one means now. Each sign now sits in the tier its cited source gives it.
- Correction: a breastfed newborn who is not pooping enough is a call, not a wait
Our newborn constipation guide said constipation is about hard stool, not how many days it has been, and that a newborn can skip a few days and be fine. That holds for a breastfed baby past about 6 weeks old. Before about 6 weeks, a breastfed baby stooling less than about once a day may not be getting enough milk, and the guide said to mention it at a weight check. It now says to call your pediatrician, as the AAP advises, and that a formula-fed baby with three or more days and no stool is worth a call too. It also says prune juice only after 3 months, if your pediatrician suggests juice at all. Five of our newborn guides counted one more wet diaper a day through the first week. They now give the minimums from the USDA and the NHS: 1 on day 1, 2 on day 2, 5 on day 3, and 6 from day 4. And the urate crystals guide now says a pink or orange stain in the first couple of days is usually fine only in a baby making enough wet diapers, and to call your pediatrician if it keeps showing up.
Why: In the first month, how often a breastfed baby poops is one of the few signs at home of how much milk is going in, and the next weight check can be a week away.
- Correction: grapes and berries are quartered, and hot dogs and baby corn are cut short
Some of our choking guidance said to halve small round foods, or to cut hot dogs into long thin strips and baby corn into thin coins. The NHS says to quarter small round foods like grapes, cherry tomatoes and berries. The AAP says hot dogs are best skipped before 12 months, and the AAP and the USDA say to cut foods like them into short pieces no larger than half an inch, never round coins. Our gagging and choking guide, the choking hazards guide, the guide to cutting food, the dangerous foods guide, the cut-food printable, and the blueberry, mulberry, hot dog and baby corn pages now say so. Whole blueberries now wait until age 4 or older, where the page said 2, following the AAP. The sesame seed page said a light sprinkle of whole seeds was fine at 9 months. The CDC lists whole seeds as a choking hazard, so whole seeds and seed-topped breads now wait until at least age 4, and tahini or ground sesame is the way to offer it, which the introducing sesame guide now says too. And whole nuts now wait until age 5, as the NHS advises, where two guides said 4.
Why: A cut that is fine for a toddler can still block a baby's airway, so the size and shape on every page have to match the sources.
- Correction: choking first aid for a child over 1 is abdominal thrusts, not chest thrusts
Our candy cane, candy corn, caramel apple and hard candy pages, and the holiday foods guide, told a parent whose child was choking to begin back blows and chest thrusts. Chest thrusts are for a baby under 1. For a child over 1, MedlinePlus and the NHS give back blows and abdominal thrusts. The pages now give both, by age. The same review fixed the pages for other treats. The honey page suggested maple syrup as a sweetener and no longer does, since the NHS says to avoid added sugar and syrup through age 4, and it now says infant botulism can show 3 to 30 days after a taste, as the AAP does. The donut, cinnamon roll, cookie dough and honey pages no longer call these a treat to offer from 12 months: the CDC says children under 2 should not have added sugars, and the Dietary Guidelines say to avoid them through age 4. The caffeine page says the AAP advises avoiding caffeine for all children, the soda page says the AAP does not recommend soda or other sugary drinks through age 6, and the unpasteurized juice page follows the FDA: juice for a child should be pasteurized or otherwise treated.
Why: A parent reading first aid on a candy page is most likely reading it about a toddler, and the steps for a toddler are not the steps for a baby.
- Correction: lip or face swelling, vomiting, or spreading hives after a food means call 911
On our nine allergen pages, the introducing allergens guide and the food allergy signs guide, swelling of the lips, face, or eyes, vomiting, and hives beyond the mouth were listed as signs to stop the food and get medical advice, with 911 only if they got worse. NIAIDâs guidance for babies, written for parents introducing allergens at home, makes each of them a reason to call 911 on its own. Where allergy groups differ, we now follow NIAID, the most cautious, so those pages now say: Call 911 (or your local emergency number) right away if any of these show up soon after a food, on their own or together: swelling of the lips, face, eyes, or tongue; swelling or tightness in the throat, or trouble swallowing; vomiting; hives that spread beyond the mouth and face; trouble breathing, noisy breathing, or wheezing; a cough that keeps going; a hoarse voice; skin or lips that turn pale or blue; or a baby who goes floppy or limp, or is suddenly sleepy or hard to wake. If the only sign is a new rash or a few hives around the mouth or face, stop the food, watch your baby closely, and call your pediatrician. If anything else about your baby worries you, call 911. The food allergy signs guide also no longer says to simply offer the food again after a few hives around the mouth.
Why: When you are deciding whether to call, you should get the most cautious answer, and the guidance written for babies is the one to follow.
- Correction: stool tips fit your baby's age, with no water or prunes under 6 months, and no 16 to 24 oz a day for a newborn
When you marked a stool as hard on the Diapers tab, the tip said prunes, pears and a little extra water usually help, at any age, with a link to prunes. The AAP says babies under 6 months need no water or juice on top of breast milk or formula unless a pediatrician advises it, and its symptom checker makes a hard stool under 2 months a call. Now a hard stool under 1 month old says to call your pediatrician right away if your baby is breastfed and within a day otherwise, and under 2 months to call within a day. From 2 to 6 months it says hard stools are not usual on breast milk or formula alone, so call your pediatrician before trying anything, even if your baby has started solids. Under 6 months each of these says to skip water, juice and prunes unless your pediatrician suggests them and to check formula is mixed as the label says, and links our newborn constipation guide instead of prunes. From 6 months the tip names high-fiber foods twice a day and a little water in a cup, and from 12 months fiber foods 3 or more times a day with enough to drink. Marking a stool as loose said it could be too much fruit or juice, and to call if there were signs of dehydration or it lasted more than a day or two. At 3 months or younger it now says soft or runny stools are normal, and that stools that suddenly come much more often and turn watery are a call to your pediatrician right away, as the AAP says. Every loose-stool tip now lists the signs of dehydration, and none mentions juice. Today now also shows the hard-stool call under 2 months, and a call-your-pediatrician line for 3 or more loose stools logged in 24 hours under 1 month old, and for 6 or more at any age: call now at 3 months or younger, and after that within a day, or now for 10 or more. If there is no birthday saved yet, the tips say when a hard or loose stool would be a call for a young baby. In Trends, the "Typical at this age" card gave a baby under 1 month 16 to 24 oz of milk a day from birth. The AAP gives as little as half an ounce a feed on the first day or two and no more than about 1 to 2 oz a feed in the first week, so with bottles logged the card now says up to 1 to 2 oz a bottle in the first week and about 3 to 4 oz by the end of the first month, with no daily total. From 1 month the card showed every family a bottle-feeding count of 5 to 8 feeds a day, then 4 to 6 at 4 and 5 months. The CDC says a breastfed baby feeds about 8 to 12 times a day, so the card now gives both counts: 8 to 12 nursing, and by bottle 6 to 8 up to 3 months and 4 to 8 at 4 and 5 months. The daily amount by bottle from 1 to 5 months now starts at 18 oz instead of 24, from the AAP's amounts a feed. From 6 months, the card is unchanged.
Why: A newborn and a 10-month-old need different advice. Extra water can harm a baby under 6 months, and a young baby with watery stools can dehydrate fast. A daily total that fits the end of the first month can push a parent to offer a newborn more than they need.
- Correction: for a baby under about 6 weeks, the Diapers tab no longer says a few days between poops is normal
Under "What's normal at this age?" on the Diapers tab, every baby under 6 months got the same note, from birth: a breastfed baby can go anywhere from after most feeds to once every few days. That holds from about 6 weeks. Before then, the NHS says a breastfed baby who is feeding well has at least 2 yellow stools a day from about day 4, and La Leche League also puts the slowdown at about 6 weeks. A baby under about 6 weeks now gets a note of their own that says so, and says that a sudden drop, or no stool in 24 to 48 hours, is a call to your pediatrician. The "Typical at this age" card in Trends told the same babies 1 to 6 dirty diapers a day, and now says the same as the note. If your baby has no birthday saved yet, the Diapers tab shows the under-6-weeks note, since the app cannot tell how old they are. From 6 weeks on, nothing changes.
Why: A parent of a 3-week-old with no dirty diaper in two days could open that note and read that once every few days is normal. At that age, fewer stools can mean a baby is not getting enough milk.
- Undoing an import takes its allergen answers with it, and a second upload shows only what is new
When you bring your history over, the import asks whether your baby reacted to any of the nine major allergens in it. If you then undid that import, your answers stayed behind, so a later import with the same allergen could put it back in rotation reminders even when you skipped its question. Undo now removes the answers that import took along with its entries, and the next file asks again. When a new file brings an allergen you have already answered for, your answer is shown, already chosen, instead of a blank question, and you can change it there. Uploading a file again now shows only the entries that are new before you keep anything and says how many are already in your log, or says Nothing new to add when that is all of them. With solid foods switched off, the preview now counts the solid food rows it left out, instead of calling them things we do not track. And the page now says which history comes across from any app, and which only from a Nara Baby export: temperatures, medicines, pumping, growth and shots.
Why: An answer about history you took back out should not decide anything about history you bring in later. And the preview is there to show what will come across, so it should not count entries that are already in your log.
- A first taste is always saved as a first
When you log a food on the Solids tab, the app checks whether your baby has had it before, and a first taste is what starts the allergen radar watching a new allergen. That check could still be running when you tapped Log, so a quick tap could save a first as not a first, and no watch started. Now the button reads "Checking for firstsâŠ" until the check is done, which is usually a moment. Offline, a new food still counts as a first, now straight away. The same check now runs when you edit a logged bite and swap its food for another, and unticking and ticking "First time trying" puts each first back on the food it belongs to. Smaller fixes on the same tab: a "first time" said by voice no longer lands on a food that was already in the meal. The reaction note says which foods the reaction is saved on. Editing a meal you brought over from another app no longer makes you rate it. A sheet left open logs the next bite at the time you tap Log, unless you set a time yourself. "Popular first foods to start with" now lists classic first foods old enough for your baby, instead of the first foods in the alphabet. Recent bites shows a big meal whole, so removing it removes all of it. When one food is left in a meal, the rating you see is the one saved. And on small phones the date and time fields no longer run off the screen.
Why: Knowing which foods have been introduced, and watching after a new allergen, is the reason many families use this tab. A missed first is a missed watch.
- One medicine, whatever name you log it under
Typing Paracetamol, Calpol, Panadol, Nurofen, "Tylenol Infant", "gas drops", Pepcid, Fer-In-Sol, Poly-Vi-Sol or D-Vi-Sol under Other now counts as the medicine it is, so it gets that medicine's dose check, and voice hears the same names. Amoxicillin and other antibiotics named that way count as an antibiotic. Doses of one medicine logged under different names now show together on Today's dose card, on Handoff, on the last 24 hours screen and in the checkup report, named for the medicine and the names you used, and each dose keeps the name it was logged under. A medication reminder counts a dose of its medicine under any of its names, so a dose you already gave no longer shows as due. The "more than a usual dose" line now shows for a dose typed in mg as well as in mL. Vitamin D is checked in mL and drops too, so 100 mL of vitamin D is refused, and the Health page gives the limit in the unit you pick. A dose saved with no amount can now be repeated from the Meds tab, as it already could from Log again. A medicine brought over from Nara Baby under one of these names comes across as the medicine too, with the name you used kept in its note. Nothing you already logged was changed, and none of this suggests a dose.
Why: A dose of Tylenol and a dose of Paracetamol are the same medicine. Counted as two medicines, each showed fewer doses than had been given, and a reminder kept asking for a dose that had been given. A dose typed as Calpol also missed the check the same dose got as Tylenol, and one typed in mg missed the usual-dose line it got in mL.
- Undo works with no signal, and an earlier day on Today keeps its entries
With no connection, removing an activity, a diaper change or a feed and then tapping Undo now brings it back, and it syncs when you are back online. Before, it was gone for good. If an Undo cannot bring something back, it now says so. On Today, with an earlier day picked, changing, deleting or undoing something on that day no longer empties the day, and neither does a new log, a change from someone else, or coming back to the app. Deleting an activity from an earlier day now names that day in the question. Editing an activity without touching its time keeps that time to the second, so importing the same Nara Baby file again no longer adds that activity twice. And someone you invited to see your shared moments, with no baby of their own in the app, now opens it to those moments instead of being asked to add a baby.
Why: Undo is the button you reach for after a mistake, and it should never be the thing that loses an entry. An empty day reads as a day where nothing happened, which is an invitation to log it all again.
- Updates and notifications keep you in the iPhone app
In the iPhone app, some taps opened the page in Safari instead, where you were not signed in. It happened when the app reloaded itself after an update while you were on any screen but Today, when you tapped a notification, when you tapped Reload on the "Something went a little yucky" screen, when Trends or another screen had to reload itself after an update, and on a few links, including the numbered source links on food pages. All of these now stay in the app, signed in, and take you to the screen you were on or the one you tapped. The Android app and the website were never affected.
Why: The iPhone app kept a page inside itself only when it was Today, and handed any other page it had to load fresh to Safari. Those loads now go through Today first, and notification taps and links skip the fresh load entirely.
- A nursing timer, left and right
The Nursing tab of the feed sheet now has a timer. Tap Left or Right to start, tap the other side to switch, and tap the side that is running to pause for a burp. Tap Done and each side is logged with its own minutes, starting when it started, and a left-then-right feed still counts as one. The side the last feed did not start on is marked as next. It keeps time with the screen locked, the app closed or the page reloaded. While it runs it stays on Today, like a nap in progress, and a family that nursed in the last few days gets a Start nursing button there too. The other parent sees the same timer on their phone and can switch, pause or stop it, and it is only ever logged once. Forgot to stop it? Set when it ended. Typing the minutes in by hand still works. Feeds brought over from Nara now keep both sides when both were timed, instead of reading as the side the feed began on.
Why: A mom who moved over from another app told us she missed timing how long her baby nursed. Typing minutes in at 3 AM is one more thing to remember.
- Nursing and a top-up bottle, logged as one feed
The feed sheet now has Combo next to Bottle and Nursing. Pick the side and the minutes, then what went in the top-up bottle (pumped milk, formula or both) and how much, in ounces or ml, and it is saved as one feed. On the nursing timer, tap "Add a top-up bottle" before Done. Already tapped Done? Edit that feed to add its top-up, change it or take it off. A combo counts as one nursing feed everywhere feeds are counted: Today, Trends, the night line, the Sunday recap, the checkup report and the monthly letter. Its bottle counts toward the milk given by bottle and comes out of your milk stash like any bottle. It works with no signal too, and you can say it: "nursed 10 minutes then 2 ounces of pumped milk". Numbers said as words, like "two ounces" or "a hundred and twenty ml", now come through when you log a feed by voice. Combo feeds in a Nara file you import from today on arrive the same way, with their side and minutes.
Why: A mom moving over from Nara told us all she needs is breastfeeding, straight from the breast and combined with pumped milk, plus pumping and diapers. A top-up used to take two entries, and then it counted as two feeds.
- Log tummy time, baths and the rest of the day
The log sheet has a new Activity tab for the parts of the day that are not feeds, sleep or diapers: tummy time, a bath, time outside, story time, play time and a nail trim. Add how long it lasted if you like, and a note. Once you have logged one, it sits at the top of the tab as a button that logs it again in one tap, the way the vitamin D button does. Activities show on Today's timeline with everything else, where a tap changes or deletes one, and you can say them too: "tummy time for 10 minutes". They are free, and they come with you in your data download. If you are moving from Nara Baby, your routines now come across with the rest of your history: bath time, tummy time, walks, story time, play time and nail trims, each at the time you logged it.
Why: A family who moved here from Nara told us it had been easier to track the rest of a baby's day there. Tummy time and baths are part of the day too.
- Fill in any diaper change later, and mark a blowout
Tap any diaper change, on Today or in the Diapers tab, and you can now change everything about it: wet, dirty or both, the time, the size, color and consistency, blood, mucus and a note. That includes the changes logged with the quick Wet and Dirty buttons, which used to let you fix only the time and the kind. Saving changes only what you changed, so a detail someone else filled in a moment ago stays put. Blowouts are new. Pick Dirty or Both and tap đ„ Blowout, or say "blowout" to the mic. The Diapers tab counts today's blowouts, Trends counts them day by day, the sitter page and the monthly letter count them too, and your data export lists them. A blowout marked in a Nara Baby export now comes across as a blowout instead of a word in the note. We also fixed a quieter problem: a wet diaper marked with blood or a color was saved without them. They are saved now.
Why: A one-tap change is meant to be filled in later, once your hands are free. Having to delete it and log it again defeated the point.
- The monthly letter by email, with the month in numbers
If your family gets the monthly letter, it now comes to your inbox on the 1st, for a month you logged, beside the notification that it is ready. The email and the letter itself end with the month in numbers: hours of nursing and hours of sleep, with naps and night apart, bottles and pumping in the unit you log in, diaper changes by wet, dirty and both, blowouts, vitamin and medicine doses, and activities like tummy time and baths. Every number is added up from what you logged. Nothing is estimated, and when only some feeds had minutes, it says how many. Photos and videos never go by email: they stay in the app, behind your sign-in, and the email has a button to the whole letter. In Settings, under Weekly recap and monthly letter, you can choose email and notification, email only, or notification only.
Why: A parent who switched from another app told us its monthly email was the thing she loved most, and asked for the hours spent nursing and sleeping, the diapers and the blowouts. A keepsake belongs somewhere you can keep it.
- Bottles read in your unit after an import
If you brought your history over from another app, the checkup report, the visit page and the monthly letter could show bottle and pumping amounts in ml even though you log in oz here. They now go by what you log here, and only fall back to your imported history when that is all there is. A new import from Nara Baby also keeps the unit each bottle and pump had there, so a 4 oz bottle reads as 4 oz, not 118 ml.
Why: Our importer saved every amount in ml, whatever unit you used before, and your older history outvoted what you log now.
- Voice asks before logging a food it isn't sure of
When you say a word that can change what a food is, like "dairy free", "vegan", "soy yogurt", "almond flour pancakes" or "no egg", voice no longer guesses. It puts nothing in the meal and shows what it heard, one line per food, with the foods it could be. Tap what your baby ate, search for it, add it as your own food with its allergens, or skip it, then tap Add to meal. A meal already started waits to log until you have. A reaction said with a "no" right in front, like "egg, no reaction", no longer ticks the reaction box, and the box opens so you can see it. Any other reaction is ticked the moment voice hears it. A bottle of whole, 2%, oat or goat milk said to the Today mic is no longer saved as a breast milk bottle: it opens Solids, where milk is a food with its allergens. And "groundnut butter", "bamba", "sunbutter", "pea nut butter" and "lactose free milk" now reach the right food.
Why: Voice used to drop the word that changed the food and log the plain one: "dairy free yogurt" was saved as milk, and "groundnut butter" as dairy butter with the peanut lost. On an allergen tracker, a confident wrong food is worse than a question.
- Something logged offline keeps the time you logged it
A feed, diaper change, medicine or activity logged without a connection showed the right time while it waited to sync, then was saved at the time it synced. A change logged at 5:05 and synced at 5:40 said 5:40. It now keeps the time you logged it. Anything you set to an earlier time yourself kept that time all along.
Why: When something happened is the whole point of a log, and a medicine given at 5:05 should never read as 5:40.
- A time you pick by hand can no longer be later than now
A time you pick by hand can no longer be later than now. That covers a dose, feed, diaper, pump, activity or bite from earlier, a sleep's start or wake time, a sleep you add afterward, the end of a nursing timer, and a time you change when you edit an entry. Pick one and the app says so instead of saving it. Just after midnight, pick 11:30 PM and the app offers last night instead. Undo after deleting a nap you logged offline now brings it back.
Why: Just after midnight, 11:30 PM on today's date is almost a day away. A dose saved there sat at the top of the dose card and hid the real latest one, and a sleep started later than now could not be ended.
- Correction: homemade baby food keeps about 1 to 2 months in the freezer
Our guide to storing and freezing baby food said frozen purĂ©es are good for roughly 1 to 3 months. FoodSafety.gov, the US governmentâs food safety site, gives homemade baby food 1 to 2 months in the freezer, so the guide now says about 1 to 2 months and links to that page. The same guide also answered "Can I refreeze thawed baby food?" with a flat no, while a few paragraphs up it said food thawed in the fridge can be refrozen. The answer now matches, and follows the USDA: food that thawed in the fridge and stayed cold can safely go back in the freezer, though the texture suffers, and food that thawed on the counter should not. The easy habit is the same as before: freeze small portions and thaw only what you need.
Why: You write the date on the freezer bag so you know when to use it up, and that only helps if the number you count from is right.
- Your usuals now add to a meal you have already started
Your usuals used to disappear from the Solids logger as soon as one food was in the meal, so a breakfast started by voice or with a tap could not take one. They now stay, and once a meal is started they read "Tap to add a usual to this meal". A tap adds the usual's foods to the meal, leaves out any that are already in it, and says how many it added. Each food it adds is still checked for a first taste on its own, and Log waits a moment while that check runs, so a food you just added always makes it into this meal. On an empty meal a tap works the way it always has, and usuals now also work while you edit a logged meal. A few smaller fixes came from the same look. A usual tapped while voice is still working stays in the meal instead of being swapped for the first food you said. The warning for a food babies should not have, or one that needs careful preparation, now shows for every food in a meal, not just the first one. A first taste you take out of a meal you are editing and put back keeps its star, and removing the first food while editing no longer moves its star onto the next food. And a meal with more foods than a usual can hold now says so, instead of offering a Save that could only fail.
Why: One of us logged half of breakfast by voice, went to add the multigrain cereal she had saved as a usual, and it was gone, with seven foods already in the meal and no way to add the rest.
- Pause messages about a baby, for a hospital stay or a loss
In a baby's settings, a parent can now pause messages about that baby. While the pause is on, we send nothing about them on our own: no Sunday recap, no note that a monthly letter is ready, no "on this day" memories and no allergen rotation reminders, and Today leaves out its look-backs and tips for them. Nothing is deleted. The daily nudge stops once every baby you care for is paused. Reminders you set yourself, recall alerts, low-supply warnings and every screen you open yourself keep working, and you can turn messages back on in the same place whenever you are ready.
Why: When a baby is in the hospital, or after a loss, a cheerful note about their week is the last thing a family needs, and there was no way to make it stop for one baby.
- Last night in one line on Today, and the last side and the last poop on the chips
In the morning, Today now says what was logged overnight: how many feeds and changes from 10 PM to 6 AM, and on a night with a feed logged in the evening, overnight and in the morning, the longest gap between logged feeds with its clock times. In the evening it counts the night so far. Tap the line for every time. The Fed chip shows the side you logged last, and the Changed chip shows the last poop logged, when a wet has been logged after it and the days since were fully logged. The feed sheet names the side you logged last instead of guessing where you started. From 8 weeks old, Today and Handoff say how long after a feed around this time of day the next one was logged on your own last week, as a note about the past and never a clock time or a countdown. When a night has a stretch with nothing logged, Today asks once whether you want to fill it in, and "add a feed" opens the feed sheet on its time field. The night line and the next-feed line go quiet while a fever, a medicine dose, a diaper alert or a reaction is up.
Why: At 6 AM nobody remembers the night, and "which side?" is the one question you need answered before a feed, not after.
- A fever under 3 months now shows what to do at once, and doses count over the last 24 hours
When a temperature that shows as 100.4°F (38.0°C) or more is logged for a baby under 3 months, the app now shows, right away, the sentence from our newborn guide: a fever at that age is an emergency, so call your pediatrician right away. It shows on Today, the Health page, Handoff and the sitter page for two days after the reading, whichever way the temperature was taken, with your pediatrician's number if you saved one on the sitter page. A reading not taken rectally says to call anyway and to say how it was taken, and once you have called, "We called" keeps it on the screen as a record instead of an alarm. Medicine doses now count over the last 24 hours instead of since midnight, each with its own time and amount, on Today and on Handoff. A new screen, the last 24 hours, puts temperatures, doses, feeds, changes and sleep on one page with their times, ready to read out on a call to the doctor or nurse line, or to copy into a chat. Handoff now shows the latest temperature and every dose, and says when it could not load something instead of saying nothing was logged. Vitamin D logged as a medicine, the way some apps export it, no longer counts as a dose or starts a sick day. And "while you were away" now counts sleeps, changes and bottles correctly.
Why: At 3 AM with a hot baby, nobody should have to go looking for what to do, or add up doses in their head. A dose from 11 PM still matters at 2 AM, and a count that started over at midnight hid it.
- A left-then-right nursing session now counts as one feed everywhere
If you log each side as its own entry, two sides a few minutes apart now count as one feed on every screen: the Feeds tile on Today, the feed sheet, Trends and its week table, the checkup report, the visit glance, the sitter page, Recap, Patterns and "while you were away", the same way the night line counts them. So your feed counts may read lower than before. Trends and the checkup report say so whenever their numbers include a feed logged as two sides.
Why: Counting entries counted each of those feeds twice, and two screens could disagree about the same morning.
- A free visit glance for the newborn checkups
Before a checkup, while your baby is not on solids yet, the checkup banner now opens a glance at what you logged: changes, feeds, nursing minutes, bottle volume and the longest sleep, each averaged over the days it was fully logged, and the days vitamin D was logged. A day logged only in part is left out of every average, and feeds overnight count only when they were logged. Anything fully logged on too few days to average is named instead of averaged, and the page says what to log before the visit. It is free, and it is under More too. The free food and reaction summary now lists the sensitivities on your care plan, and says when it could not load, instead of showing an empty record.
Why: The first question at a newborn visit is how many feeds and diapers, and the banner was sending you to an empty food page.
- Trends and the sleep card now say only what your log can back
Night now starts from your baby's own bedtime in the log, not from your quiet hours, so a 6:45 PM bedtime counts as night, and changing your quiet hours no longer changes what counts as a nap. The week table on Trends says how many days each number comes from, and averages feeds over fully logged days only, so a day that was only partly logged no longer reads as your baby changing. The free sleep card no longer grades the week as trending up or dipping. When the last week of fully logged nights really differs from the week before, it shows both numbers, in the same words either way, and it describes naps a day only from 4 months old, in whole naps. Wake-ups and night sleep count only nights logged from evening to morning. The next-nap card takes its window and its awake-a-while line from the same place, says nothing about being awake at night, shows its window to the nearest five minutes, and drops the bedtime window once it has passed. Its nap and bedtime windows now wait for your baby's own wake windows and mornings, instead of starting from a range for their age. Nothing compares or celebrates in the first 14 days, nothing that compares speaks while a fever, a medicine dose, a diaper alert or a reaction is up, and a comparison that reads clock times waits after a clock change until both of its windows are on the same clock.
Why: A week of nights is noisy. A card that read noise, a gap in the log or a clock change as progress or a dip was telling tired parents things their baby was not doing.
- The Sunday recap and the monthly letter now cover the newborn months
The Sunday recap used to be about bites only, so a family in the newborn months got nothing. It now covers the newborn weeks too: how many days were logged, the week's feeds, diapers and sleeps, and the longest gap between logged feeds on a night with a feed logged in the evening, overnight and in the morning. That line stays out of a week with a fever reading or a medicine dose, and out of the first 14 days. The weekday sleep line is gone, and the Sunday notification counts a meal as one meal, not one per food. The letter about each month used to count only the days you logged solids, so a month of newborn feeds and changes read "A quiet month in the log". It now writes up the feeds and diaper changes too: how many, on how many days, and, across the nights with feeds logged from evening to morning, the longest gap between logged feeds on a typical night and at the longest, with that night's own clock times. Nothing from the first 14 days is held up as a longest. A month with feeds, changes, sleep or solids logged on enough of its days now gets a letter, and on the 1st a busy month of feeds and changes gets the note that its letter is ready. Growth shows the month's latest measurement in your own units, a note written on every bite of a meal is quoted once, and the month menu starts at the month you started logging. A left-then-right feed counts once in both.
Why: Most families are in the newborn months, and theirs were the recap and the letter that had nothing to say.
- Firsts and the badges say what is in the log
A first is now the earliest bite of its day, and the badges say what is in the log rather than praising it. Firsts says when it could not load, instead of showing an empty collection.
Why: A keepsake that graded a baby was not one worth keeping.
- New in Plus: last night as a text, the first 100 days, and keepsakes and reads that describe instead of grading
Under last night's line on Today, you can send last night, or today so far in the evening, as a text to whoever was off duty, and read it before it goes, and see how the longest gap between logged feeds has moved over four weeks. That trend waits out the first 14 days. Around day 100, a card on Today and a page to keep tell the newborn months back from your log: how many feeds and diapers, how often your baby fed in the early weeks and the late ones, and the longest gap between logged feeds on a typical night. Only weeks that were fully logged are compared, feeds overnight count only when they were logged, and history brought over from another app says where it came from. The card waits while a fever, a dose, a diaper alert or a reaction is up, one tap hides it on your phone, and the page is under More. Journey and Recap now describe instead of grading. "Loves lately" comes from recent ratings, the second number is the foods tried more than once instead of the same count again, "bold on greens" needs a green that landed, and the food story says what is in the log rather than praising it. The poster and the memory book say when they could not load, instead of showing an empty collection. On Patterns, bedtime slots show the right clock, the weekday line is gone, and the pattern cards need real evidence before they name a winner. A night or a day that was only partly logged no longer reads as your baby changing there: night feeds compare only nights with a feed logged overnight, and Recap counts feeds and diaper changes only on days logged morning, afternoon and evening, and says how many days each number comes from. The checkup report says how many days its numbers come from, leads with total changes, gives every dose its own amount, and answers the vitamin D question on the visit forms, and it and the visit questions say when they could not load, instead of showing an empty record.
Why: At 6 AM nobody remembers the night, and the newborn months are the ones nobody remembers at all. A keepsake or a read that graded a baby, counted the same thing twice, or read a gap in the log as a change in your baby was not one worth keeping.
- The milk stash keeps each day's use-by, and diaper counts lead with the total
The milk stash now counts each pump once and keeps the date of the oldest milk, with a use-by line for each day you pumped, and milk near or past its use-by shows in red. Diaper counts on Trends and the checkup report lead with the total changes, with wet and dirty split so the parts add up. Where changes came over from another app without a wet or dirty type, a note says wet counts from those days may read low. The diaper run-out estimate uses only the days you logged, morning and evening, and says how many. With too few of those days it asks for more logging instead of assuming a typical rate. History brought over from another app now keeps a wet-and-dirty change as both, and vitamin D written as a medicine comes over as a vitamin.
Why: A stash dated by its last pump could let older milk pass its use-by without a word. And a run-out date built on a typical baby is a guess about somebody else's baby.
- Suggestions no longer offer treats and processed foods like cake, juice or hot dogs
The app no longer suggests treats and processed foods, like cake, ice cream, cookies, juice, honey, hot dogs, deli meat or French fries. That covers Today's bite, worth another go, keep offering, new pairings, what to try next, fallen out of rotation, the meal planner, toddler meals, the food jag page, the world passport and the flavor combos your baby loved. Today's bite could name a muffin as the way to introduce egg, milk or wheat, and now names a different familiar food instead. You can still search for these foods, log them and read their pages, the same as before. The world passport also suggests only foods your baby is old enough for now, so it no longer offers popcorn to a baby.
Why: They are foods the guidance says to keep for now and then, so the app should not be the one suggesting them.
- Worth another go now only suggests foods we know are fine to offer
Today's bite and the Flavor Explorer suggest giving a food another go when it was only tried once or got a đ€ą. They used to do that for anything in the log, including foods you typed in yourself, so a flavored sparkling water came back as worth another go. Now a food comes back only when it is in our food library and the library does not tell you to skip it. Foods you add yourself stay in the log, and we leave the choosing to you. The date in that line also reads like a date now, Aug 3 instead of 2026-08-03.
Why: One of us was told to give her baby a sparkling drink again. The app cannot know what a food you typed in is, so it should not guess that it is worth repeating.
- Allergens from your old app wait for your word before we suggest themHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Bringing history over from another app that included a common allergen, like peanut, and not logging it here since. Reactions stay behind in an import, so the reminders read it as tried with no reaction.Observed impact: We checked every import so far: none included one of the nine common allergens, so no reminder was ever sent this way.Action needed: Nothing, unless you imported. If you did, the Allergen radar will ask about anything it found.
When you bring your history over from another app, reactions stay behind, on purpose. That left a gap: if your old app showed peanut, we could later remind you to keep peanut in rotation without knowing how it went. Now the import asks one question: did your baby react to any of the allergens in your history? Answer No reaction, Had a reaction, or Not sure. Until you answer, those allergens stay out of rotation reminders and out of our suggestions: the Allergen radar, the meal planner, Todayâs bite, the Flavor Explorer with its world passport and loved combos, and the add-ins we suggest after a food they love. Had a reaction adds it to your care plan, the same as flagging one yourself. If your care plan already says that allergen is resolved, we leave it that way, and reminders for it wait until you log it here. An allergen you have already logged here is not asked about at all, since its reminders never stopped. If you imported before today, the Allergen radar shows a From the old app card with the same question. Logging one of those allergens here yourself also lifts the hold, because then it is in your log and so is any reaction. The meal planner now names anything it is keeping off the week, and why, instead of calling every allergen on track. While we were in there, we made the rest of our suggestions just as careful. An allergen on your care plan, or one with a logged reaction, is no longer suggested anywhere, so a baby who reacted to milk is not offered grated cheese, and a food that came with a reaction is never called worth another try. The sitter page and the care summary link now say to ask a parent about anything on your care plan or only in your old app, instead of listing it as tried with no reaction. And the dates on the care summary link no longer read a day early in US time zones.
Why: A reminder to keep offering a food is only kind if the food went well the first time. We would rather ask once than guess. Anything about a reaction is a question for your pediatrician or allergist.
- Sleep firsts only count when the nights before them were logged
If you started logging sleep after the newborn weeks, the app could hand you a "First 4-hour stretch" within days, when the real first had happened before you started. A sleep first now counts only when the week before it was logged, or your log goes back to birth. A first nobody could have seen is no longer claimed, on the Firsts page, in the monthly letter, or in a "one year ago" note. Two smaller fixes came from the same review. Saving the date of your next checkup no longer empties the visit prep, which now counts from the last visit that has already happened. And food brought over from another app no longer shows up in "While you were away" as if someone had just logged it.
Why: A first is a memory, and a made-up date on one is worse than no date at all. Most of the first 4-hour stretches we checked landed within three days of a family's very first sleep log.
- The monthly letter now carries the month in pictures, and a note says when it is ready
The letter about each month now carries the photos and videos from that month's first bites and milestones. A first taste leads at the top, the rest follow in a strip with what it was and the date, and a tap opens one full size. A bite logged with a reaction stays out, because that picture is for the doctor, not the keepsake. Photos print with the letter. And on the 1st, when the month before brought a first taste or a milestone, a note says the letter is ready and opens straight to it, for the right baby. The note comes as a notification if reminders are on, or by email if not, and the Weekly recap and monthly letter switch in Settings turns it off. History you brought over from another app counts in the months it happened, never in the month you imported it.
Why: The letter was only ever found by somebody who went looking for it, and a month told back without the pictures you took of it was only half the story.
- Deleting something you logged now asks first
Tap delete on a meal, a bite, a bottle, a diaper, a nap, a pump, a dose, a temperature, a measurement, a milestone, a vaccine, a voice clip or a letter, and the app now asks first, naming exactly what would go: "Delete this meal of Avocado and Toast from 8:02 AM?" Where an Undo already followed a delete, it still does. Undoing something you just logged stays one tap, because that one is on purpose.
Why: One of us lost a whole solids meal to a stray tap this morning. The â in the solids list deleted it on the spot, with no way back. One question is a small price for never losing a first taste to a thumb.
- Our meat pages now say how hot, not "cook until no pink"
Our meat guide and several food pages told you to cook meat until it was no longer pink. Color is not a reliable test: ground meat can turn brown before it is hot enough inside, and safely cooked poultry can still look a little pink. Those pages now give the temperature to check with a food thermometer, from USDA. The same review fixed our guide to feeding a one-year-old, which said honey is fine after the first birthday and then, a sentence later, to skip added sugar. Honey is an added sugar. After 12 months it is safe, and it is still best not used to sweeten food before age 2.
Why: We checked the safety lines on these pages against their sources and found our own pages disagreeing with them. A safety line that is only mostly right is the mistake we most want to catch.
- A mistyped recipe link finds its way back, and more buttons answer to the words on them
Opening a recipe address that does not exist used to land on our "something went a little yucky" error screen, as if the site had broken. It now says the recipe was not found and points to all the recipes, the way the food pages already did. For anyone using voice control or a screen reader, more controls now go by the words they show: the baby menu, the day picker on Today, the yummy and yucky votes with their counts, the deal links, the flavor map, the Log button and your usuals. The printables page, the guest banner and a few locked pages also gained the headings and page regions a screen reader uses to find its way around.
Why: Voice control works by saying what you see, like "tap Today". A button whose spoken name is different words from its label simply does not answer, even though it looks fine. And the recipe page was the one kind of page that fell over on a bad link.
- Some buttons, tags and labels were too faint to read, worst of all in dark mode
The Start free button at the top of our guides and food pages had light text on light orange in dark mode, close to invisible, and not much better in light mode. It now has dark text in both. The same check found smaller spots that were too faint: the green and purple text on Yummy, Yucky, tried and introduced tags, the green and red pop-up messages, the headings in the site footer, the food groups you have not reached yet on the variety card, and a few labels on the pricing page. Links in the text of our pages are now underlined, so they stand out without relying on color. Milestones you have already recorded show a check mark instead of fading out, because the fade was easy to miss and the "Already recorded" note only appeared on hover, which a phone does not have. The Skip to content link, for anyone who moves through a page with a keyboard, now jumps to the content; on the home page and every food page and guide it went nowhere. And the App Store and Google Play buttons now answer to the words printed on them, for anyone who uses voice control.
Why: We ran every kind of page through an accessibility checker, in light and dark mode, on a phone and on a computer. Most of what it found had one cause: a handful of our colors were picked by eye and never measured against the background behind them. They are measured now, and a test checks them on every change so they stay readable.
- A gift of Plus can be refunded until its code is redeemedHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: A gift of Plus being bought and its money then coming back, refunded by us or reversed by the buyer's bank. Its code kept working as though it had been paid for.Observed impact: We checked every gift in our records: none has been refunded or disputed, so no code and no account has been changed by this.Action needed: Nothing, unless you want to refund a gift you bought. Email hello@yummyyuc.ky before the code is redeemed.
If you buy a gift of Plus and change your mind, it can be refunded until the code is redeemed: email hello@yummyyuc.ky. Once a gift is refunded its code stops working, and the gift page and the receipt page say so. The Terms now put this in writing, along with one rarer case: if the buyer's bank reverses the payment after the code was used, the time that gift added ends, and we tell the person who redeemed it. Anything they paid for themselves is untouched.
Why: Until now nothing happened when money for a gift came back: a refunded gift's code would have kept working as though it had been paid for. The rule we chose protects whoever received the gift. A refund is something we decide to give, so once a gift has been redeemed we leave it alone. Only a payment the bank itself takes back, which is how a stolen card usually shows up, ends the gifted time.
- The Plus page could describe your Plus wrongly, and offered a free trial to people it was about to chargeHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Opening the Plus page with Plus you do not pay for yourself (through a family member's plan, a complimentary account or one of our earliest gifts), or after subscribing before. Gift time was lost only when a subscriber redeemed a second gift.Observed impact: We checked every gift in our records: none had been redeemed on top of another, and none had lost time to the nightly job, which now keeps a gift intact. The trial was only ever a wording problem, because checkout decides it on its own and always decided it correctly, so nobody was charged differently from what they were owed. A small number of accounts saw the wrong card on the Plus page.Action needed: Nothing. Open the Plus page and it describes your plan correctly.
The Plus page now says what kind of Plus you actually have. If someone in your family pays and you are covered through a baby you both care for, it says so, instead of telling you that you hold a gifted year. A gift shows when it ends, and promises a reminder only when one will really be sent. The free trial line on the Plus card now shows only to someone who can get the trial, so nobody is offered a free week on the same screen that says they will be charged today. And redeeming a second gift on top of a first now always adds its full time.
Why: The page had one card for everyone with Plus and no subscription, and it was written for a gift. So a partner covered by the family plan, and anyone given Plus some other way, was told about a gift, an end date and a reminder that do not exist. The trial line had a similar problem: it sat on the Plus card itself, while the button underneath already knew whether you could have the trial, and the two never compared notes. The gift one was quieter. A gifted year is recorded in two places, and a nightly job that keeps your plan in step with the payment service was writing over one of them, so a second gift redeemed at the wrong moment started from the earlier date and added nothing, while the screen said it had.
- Patterns and Checkup were reading only part of your history once you had logged a lotHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Logging more than about 900 entries of one kind (feeds, sleeps, diapers or foods) within the stretch a screen reads, like the last two months on Patterns. Every entry was still saved. Only these screens read short.Observed impact: We checked every account against the cutoff. It reached a small number of the most active families, and only on the screens above. Ours was one of them: in our own family's log, the count of different foods tried read 61 when the real number was 69. Nothing you logged was lost or changed: every entry was always stored, and these screens now read all of them.Action needed: Nothing. Open Patterns or Checkup and the numbers are already worked out from your full history.
The Patterns page, the Checkup report and a few smaller reads now use every entry you have logged, however many there are. Before, once a single read passed about a thousand entries, the rest were quietly left out. Your count of different foods tried, and the trends comparing this month with last, now come from all of it.
Why: Our database hands back at most a thousand rows to one request, without saying so, and several screens asked for more in a way that looked like it worked. Worse, some of those reads asked in no particular order, so past the cutoff they were not even dropping your oldest entries, they were dropping an arbitrary handful, and the trend was being worked out from a random slice of your log. The busiest families were the ones it affected, which is exactly backwards: the more you logged, the less of it these screens could see.
- If FDA recalls the formula you use, we will tell youObserved impact: Nobody, and we checked rather than assumed: the table that records every notice sent holds no rows at all, and all sixteen recalls we hold are still waiting for a person to review them, so none has been shown to anyone. What we cannot tell you is whether your particular tin is affected, and we do not try to. FDA recalls specific lot codes; we only know that a recall names a brand. So the notice says a recall names your formula and asks you to check the code on your own packaging, never that your formula was recalled. Throwing out a tin you did not need to, at formula prices, is its own kind of harm.Action needed: Make sure the formula on your baby's page is the one you are actually using, and update it if you have switched. That is the only thing this matches on.
If you have recorded which formula you use, and FDA announces a recall that names that brand, you get a notification and a page showing FDA's own wording: the brands they named, the recalling company, their stated reason, and the lot and batch codes. It is free, and it always will be. Nothing appears unless a recall names your brand.
Why: Infant formula is most of what gets recalled in this corner of the grocery aisle. Of the sixteen recalls we have on file going back nine years, thirteen are formula, and the reasons are the ones that frighten you: Cronobacter, botulism, the wrong amount of vitamin D. The brand you use is the one piece of that puzzle we already hold, because you told us in order to compare prices, so matching the two up is something we can do without asking you for anything new. What we deliberately did not build is a general recall feed. A page listing every recall reads as a promise to watch all of them for you, and the first one we missed would be worse than never having claimed it. This only speaks up about the brand on your baby's page.
- Pumping shows up for parents who only nurse
The milk stash card is where a pump is logged, and the Feeds tab showed it only once a formula or a bottle with an amount had been logged. A parent who only nursed never saw it, so there was no way to log a pump at all. The card now shows for everyone on the Feeds tab, with Log pumped milk right there. The run-out forecast and prices beside it stay where they were.
Why: A parent moving over from another app needed nursing, pumping and diapers, and told us we had no pumping. It was free all along. She just could not see it.
- Evening logs counted toward the wrong day, and an allergen you reacted to could be suggested againHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: For the dates, logging in the evening, from 5 pm in California or 8 pm in New York, or opening Patterns before noon. For the reminder, a reaction to an allergen over 30 days earlier, a serving of it since with no reaction, and notifications on.Observed impact: Nobody has been sent a reminder about a food they reacted to. We checked every account: the only reaction logged by then was in our own family's log, to banana, which the reminder does not cover, so the notification never had the chance to fire. The date bugs were live and did affect real logs, but they changed what a summary said rather than what was stored. Nothing you logged was ever lost or altered.Action needed: Nothing. Streaks, summaries and letters all recompute from what you already logged, so they read correctly from now on without you doing anything.
Four reads that quietly used the wrong calendar day now use yours. A vitamin given at bedtime counts for the day you gave it, so the streak no longer breaks on a day you did not miss. The weekly summary compares this week with the last three on the same calendar, so a month of identical evenings stops reading as a twenty per cent jump. The pattern cards give the same answer at nine in the morning as at two in the afternoon. And the monthly letter no longer re-announces a sleep milestone your baby reached months ago as though it had just happened. Separately, if you have logged a reaction to an allergen, the rotation reminder will never suggest working it back in.
Why: Every one of the date bugs was the same mistake in four places. A time is stored with a timezone, and reading just the front of it gives the day in UTC, which from five in the afternoon in California, or eight in New York, is already tomorrow. So anything logged in the evening, which is most of what happens with a baby, landed on the following day, while the code counting the days used yours. The vitamin streak was the sharpest version: a dose at eight in the evening filed itself under tomorrow, so today looked like a gap and a streak you had kept broke in front of you. The allergen one is different and more serious. The Allergens page stops suggesting a food the moment you log a reaction to it and never starts again. The reminder that arrives on your phone had a thirty day limit on that, so on day thirty one the screen stayed quiet and the notification said the opposite. Whether to try a food again after a reaction is a conversation with your doctor, and nothing we build gets to start it.
- An expired confirmation link sent you off to reset a password you never neededHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Opening a confirmation or sign-in link after it had stopped working, then tapping "Email me a new link" on the screen that said so.Observed impact: Nobody lost anything to this. An account that has not been confirmed yet has nothing in it, so there was nothing to lose. We checked the sending side too, in case the emails were the problem and this was us: every confirmation email we have ever sent went out within a tenth of a second of being asked for, from the right address, with a working link. They arrived. They got buried, and then nothing followed up.Action needed: Nothing. If you once started an account and never finished it, go to the sign in page, put your email in and tap "Email me a sign-in link (no password)". That confirms your address and signs you in at the same time.
When a confirmation or sign-in link has stopped working, that screen now offers to email you a fresh sign-in link, which asks for nothing but your address. It used to send you to the password reset page. Separately, if you start making an account and do not finish it, we now send one reminder with a new link, about an hour later, once and never again.
Why: The button said "Email me a new link" and led to a page headed "Reset your password", which then wanted a new password typed twice before it would let you through. It did work, and it did quietly confirm your address on the way past, but it asked you to change the one thing that was never broken. Worse, anyone who had only ever signed in with an emailed link had no password to reset, so the page was asking them to invent one to get past a door that was not locked. The sign-in link does the same job and needs only your email. The reminder exists because we went and looked: of the people who started an account and stopped at the email, one came back three and a half days later, asked for a fresh link themselves, and was in twenty two seconds after it landed. Nothing had reminded them. Now something does.
- A guest account can no longer buy Plus, because we would have deleted itHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Using the app as a guest, with no email and password saved, and subscribing from the Plus page. The account, and the subscription with it, would have been cleared 30 days after the guest account started. Buying a gift as a guest was never affected.Observed impact: None found. We checked every billing record we hold, and not one of them belongs to an account without an email address saved on it. There is no guest account on the service at all today. One limit worth naming, the same one as the account deletion entry below: if this had happened to somebody and their account was later cleared out, the billing record went with it, so our records cannot settle a case from the past on their own. The payment processor keeps its own record of every card we have ever charged, which is where we would look.Action needed: Nothing, unless you once paid for Plus from an account that had no email saved on it and later found the account gone. Email hello@yummyyuc.ky and we will check the payment processor directly and refund you.
If you are logging as a guest, with no email and password saved on the account, the Plus page now asks you to save your account first instead of offering you something to buy. Until today a guest could go all the way to the payment page and subscribe.
Why: A guest account is the one we clear out when it goes quiet, and that clock runs from the day the account was created, not the last day you used it. So a subscription bought on a guest account could be cancelled along with the account about a month later, taking every log and photo with it, and a cancellation is not a refund. Buying on day twenty-five would have bought you five days. We already stop a guest from redeeming a gifted year for this exact reason, and the path that takes a card had been left open. Saving your account takes an email and a password, everything you have logged so far comes with you, and Plus is still there afterwards.
- Tap an allergen to see which foods they have actually had
On the allergen radar, tapping an allergen you have already introduced opens the foods you have logged that contain it, each with how long ago it was last eaten, most recent first. If a reaction was logged, it is marked against the specific food rather than the whole allergen.
Why: The radar could tell you peanut was 24 days ago, which says something has slipped but not what to do about it. Now it says peanut butter 24 days ago and satay 40, so the answer is a food you already know they take rather than a category to go and solve. Nancy asked for it, and the dates were already being read out of the database and thrown away before they reached the screen.
- You can now tell the allergen reminder "not now"How we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Having notifications on for an allergen your baby had eaten before but not lately. Swiping the reminder away did nothing, so it came back every seven days, and only marking the allergen as one to avoid stopped it.Observed impact: None found. We checked every allergen reminder we have ever sent. Each one was correct: none went out that should not have, and none that should have went missing. The gap was not in what we sent, it was that there was no way to ask us to stop, and in the worst run the same peanut reminder repeated six times across four weeks.Action needed: Nothing. If a reminder is landing at a bad time, Not now is on the allergen page.
Every allergen row that is due has a Not now beside it. It keeps that one allergen quiet for 30 days, then lapses on its own. It is per allergen and per baby, so quieting peanut does not quieten egg, and it never changes what the tracker shows: the allergen still reads as due on this page, with the date the quiet ends and an Undo next to it.
Why: Dismissing the notification did nothing, because dismissing is invisible to us: swiping is something your phone does, not something the app hears. So the reminder came back in seven days, and the only thing that actually stopped it was marking the allergen as one your clinician told you to avoid. That left a tired parent choosing between saying something untrue about their child and taking the reminder every week. In the worst run we found, in our own family's log, the same peanut reminder went out six times across four weeks with no way to ask for quiet.
- The play ideas now go as far as the checklist does
The developmental checklist on Whatâs next runs to 5 years, but the âto play alongâ ideas next to it stopped at 2 years. If your child was 30 months or older you saw the milestones and then nothing at all about what to do with them. There are now ideas for 30 months, 3 years, 4 years and 5 years: eight at each age, two under each of the four things the checklist is watching. They are written for the age they sit under rather than borrowed from the toddler list, so a four-year-old gets real conversation, drawing a person together, a beach ball to catch and crayons broken in half, not another round of peek-a-boo.
Why: Half a page is worse than a page you have to scroll, because it reads as though there is nothing to say. The checklist grew up and the ideas did not follow it, which is the kind of gap nobody reports: it just quietly looks like the app has run out of things for your child.
- Pick a baby that looks like your baby
The emoji you choose for your baby came in eight options, and exactly one of them was a baby. Unicodeâs yellow baby is deliberately not a skin tone, so if yours did not look like the cartoon, your choices were a fox, a turtle or a teddy bear. There are now six babies, one for every skin tone, and thirty-two other options including a lot more animals: panda, koala, penguin, hedgehog, elephant, giraffe, octopus, butterfly, dinosaur and more. Every emoji that was there before is still there, so nothing you already picked has gone anywhere. The picker is the same on the add-a-baby screen and on Manage baby, which it quietly was not before.
Why: We built a food library that covers cassava, taro, callaloo and congee precisely so families would not have to abandon the foods they actually eat. Offering one baby, in one color, was a strange thing to have next to that. Thank you to the parent who pointed it out.
- A link that has expired says so, and changing your email tells you what it actually takes
An expired or already-used confirmation link used to leave you on a spinning strawberry forever. It now says the link has expired, that nothing is wrong with your account, and gives you a way to get a fresh one. Changing your email now tells you the truth: we send a link to the new address AND to the old one, and both have to be clicked, which is what stops somebody else quietly moving your account to their address. If you have lost the old inbox, it points you at us instead of letting you wait for something that will never happen. Confirming a change now lands you back in Settings with a line saying it worked, rather than dropping you on Today with no word either way. Guests no longer see a change-password or change-email form, because a guest account has neither, and using that form could have lost the log. And a tab left open all day now notices within half an hour when your plan changes, instead of showing you Plus you no longer have or a paywall you have already paid past.
Why: Every one of these is a moment where you did exactly what we asked and the app went quiet on you. Silence after a correct action is the fastest way to lose somebodyâs trust, and the hardest thing to notice from the inside.
- Gifts land where you can use them, and Plus stops offering you things you already haveHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Redeeming a gift code from a guest account, with no email and password saved, or starting Plus checkout again while already subscribed, from an old tab, a double tap or a second visit to the Plus page.Observed impact: None found. No gift code has ever been redeemed from a guest account. On the double charge: we keep one subscription record per account, so our records alone cannot rule out a second one at the payment processor. The guard that makes it impossible now sits in the checkout itself, which is the part we control.Action needed: None. If you see two charges for Plus in one month, email hello@yummyyuc.ky and we will refund the second.
The Redeem button in a gift email now carries your code to the page and fills it in for you, instead of dropping you on a page selling you the plan you were just given. If you are on a gifted year, the Plus page says so and tells you when it ends, rather than offering a Manage subscription button that answered âNo subscription found.â Redeeming from a guest account is now refused with an explanation, because a guest account is cleared out when it goes quiet and the gift would have gone with it. If you are already subscribed, we will not open a second checkout and charge you twice. And when checkout itself is having a bad day, you get a sentence you can act on instead of a line of Stripeâs internal error text.
Why: Somebody spent real money on that gift. The least we can do is make the code take one tap, be impossible to lose, and never look like a sales pitch.
- The care summary now reads every allergen log, including the ones typed by voiceHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Sharing a care summary link. An allergen showed on it only when one of its foods had been picked from our food list with the first-try box ticked, so foods logged by voice, offline or from a food page did not count.Observed impact: None found. We have no record of a care summary link ever being created, and none exists now. Worth being exact about what that does and does not prove: we do not log when one of these pages is opened, so this is a statement about links made, not about pages read. No link, no reading.Action needed: None.
The read-only summary you share with a sitter was built from a narrower slice of your log than it looked. It only counted bites matched to a food in our library, so anything logged by voice, offline or from a link on a food page was invisible to it. It also only counted a bite if the âfirst tryâ box happened to be ticked, so a baby with six logged peanut meals and the box never ticked showed nothing at all. Both are fixed: it now resolves foods the way the rest of the app does, by what the food is, and it reports the earliest date on file. When there is genuinely nothing recorded, it now says that is what the silence means rather than leaving the reader to guess.
Why: Somebody reads that page before they feed your child. An allergen quietly missing from it is the worst thing this app could do, and a blank space there must never be mistaken for ânothing to worry about.â
- Deleting your account now cancels your subscription, and says so before you do itHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Deleting your account while a paid Plus subscription was running: nothing cancelled it, so it kept renewing. Deleting from the app's own button also left the baby's photos and videos for the app to clear, so a dropped connection could leave them stored.Observed impact: None found. Every subscription we bill belongs to an account that still exists, and nothing has ever entered the cancellation queue that captures a departing account's subscription. One limit worth naming: a deleted account's billing record is deleted with it, so our own records cannot see one that is gone. That gap is exactly what the queue was added to close.Action needed: None. If you deleted an account and believe you were charged afterward, email hello@yummyyuc.ky and we will check the payment processor directly and refund.
Our Terms have always said that deleting your account cancels future renewals when we bill you directly. The code did not do it. Deleting removed your account and everything in it, and the record of which subscription belonged to you went with it, so the card kept being charged for an account that no longer existed. It cancels now, on every route out, and it is written down the moment your account goes rather than depending on anything in your browser finishing. The delete screen tells you what will happen first: your subscription is cancelled, you are not charged again, and the part of the period you already paid for is not refunded automatically, so you can email us first if you want one. Same change on the other half of deleting: the photos and videos on a baby that goes with your account are now queued for removal by the server. They used to be cleaned up by your browser on the way out, which meant a dropped connection at the wrong moment could leave them behind.
Why: A subscription that outlives the account it paid for is money taken for nothing, and it is the kind of thing you find out about on a bank statement. A promise in the Terms has to be a thing the software actually does.
- The import fills in your babyâs name and birthday, and says exactly what came across
If your export names your baby and carries a birthday (Nara Babyâs does), the account step is filled in for you and the birthday is set, so nothing asks for it later. The page says when it is reading your file, the counts read properly (1 recorded first, not 1 recorded firsts), switching the solids option re-reads the file you already chose instead of blanking the page, and the same file can be picked again after Cancel. A file with nothing we can read now says so, and what to try. After the import, the card says your tracking history is in the log and, on the free plan, how many recorded firsts stayed in the file for Plus. One more, and an apology: the âconfirm itâs youâ link sent to a saved guest account opened as a page of code with no button, so nobody could confirm. It opens a proper page now. If you got the page of code, tap the link again, or use Send it again under Manage baby.
Why: A parent moving months of their babyâs life between apps should have to do as little as possible and be told the truth about what moved. Reading the name and birthday off the file removes two questions, and the success card should never say âeverythingâ to a family whose recorded firsts are waiting for Plus.
- If you started as a guest, confirm your email before inviting other caregivers
When you save a guest account, we now send a short "confirm itâs you" email. Everything works straight away, logging, importing, all of it. The one thing that waits for that tap is inviting somebody else onto your babyâs log. If you need the link again, try an invite and we send a fresh one.
Why: An invite gives another person access to your babyâs history. Before anyone can hand that out, we want to be sure the email on the account really belongs to the person using it. Accounts made the usual way already work like this; guest accounts now do too.
- See what we found in your export before you sign up for anything
Bringing your history over from another tracker used to mean making an account first and hoping it worked. Now you can drop your export straight in and see exactly what we found: how many feeds, sleeps, diapers and solids, and how many of your foods we recognized. Your file is read on your own device and never leaves it. If you decide to keep it, the account step happens right there on the same page, so the file you just uploaded is the file that gets imported. Your baby is called what you typed, not "Baby".
Why: Asking somebody to sign up before we have shown them anything is asking for trust we have not earned yet. You should be able to see that we read your file correctly, and that months of your history really are all there, while it still costs you nothing to walk away.
- Voice logging reads "5 spice" and "apple sauce" properly
Two ways the same spoken food could come out wrong. Saying "Chinese five spice" logged it and saying "Chinese 5-spice" logged nothing, purely because the transcriber picked a digit that time. And "apple sauce" quietly logged Apple, a different food, because the library spells it "Applesauce". Now a digit and its number word count as the same word everywhere, including when you type in the food search, and apple sauce is apple sauce whichever way it is written.
Why: You said the food correctly. Which way our transcriber happened to spell it is not something you should have to think about, and it should never be the reason the wrong food ends up in your babyâs history.
- Prep School now covers every food in the library
The BLW-or-purees prep toggle now covers every single food we have a page for, 350 more of them today, from the everyday (brown rice, peanut butter, pizza, mac and cheese, grilled cheese) to the ones nobody else bothers with (kelewele, mujadara, attieke, chochoyotes, pounded yam, sixteen kinds of winter squash). Foods that should wait say so at every stage, drinks and spreads explain the form that actually works instead of pretending to be finger food, and every word is split from that foodâs own already-verified prep and safety copy.
Why: Whichever way you are feeding, the answer to "how do I serve this today" should be on the page, for your food, not just the popular ones.
- The last 18 thin food pages grow up
Every remaining thin page in the library is now a full guide: oca, ulluco, cloudberry, sea-buckthorn, pawpaw, ramps, alligator, and eleven more of the rare and regional foods. Each got a real intro, safety section, nutrition, pairings, storage, and six-plus FAQs, fact-checked against reputable sources before shipping. The two with genuine hazards say so plainly: ramps carry a sourced warning about poisonous wild lookalikes, and pawpaw notes the reason to keep it occasional.
Why: A family feeding their baby cloudberries deserves the same depth as one feeding bananas. This closes a campaign that started in July: zero thin pages remain.
- Prep School comes to 70 more foods, grapes and peanut included
The BLW-or-purees prep toggle now covers 70 more foods, starting with the ones families serve most: grapes (lengthwise quartering at every age, spelled out), peanut (the dissolvable-puff and thinned-butter forms by stage), plus farro, sausage, bacon, ice cream, sushi, and dozens more. Foods that should wait say so plainly at every stage instead of hiding it in fine print. Every entry is split from that foodâs already-verified prep and safety copy, so nothing new to trust, just easier to use.
Why: The foods parents are most nervous about deserved the clearest by-age prep, not the barest.
- A guide for your mood, not just the babyâs
New in Learn: "Baby blues or postpartum depression?" It covers the two-week line between the blues and something that needs treatment, the other shapes it takes (postpartum anxiety, the rare emergency that is postpartum psychosis, and the fact that partners get this too), why your babyâs checkups ask about your mood on purpose, and why treatment genuinely works. The helplines at the top are verified and worth saving before you ever need them. Every claim is sourced to NIMH, CDC, ACOG, AAP, and Postpartum Support International.
Why: You track your babyâs feeds, sleep, and moods all day. Someone should look out for yours.
- Prep School gets its 9-month step, everywhere it was missing
Forty-four foods had prep guidance for 6 months and 12 months with a gap in the middle, right where the pincer grasp shows up and textures change fastest. Every one of them now has its 9-month step, in both the baby-led weaning and puree tracks, each derived from that foodâs own verified prep and safety copy.
Why: Nine months is when "how do I serve this now?" changes its answer, and the ladder should not skip that rung.
- Every tried food now shows when it was last served
On the Food tab, each food your baby has tried carries a "last had 12 days ago" line, and the Tried filter now sorts the longest-away foods to the top. So bringing a food back into the rotation stops being a memory test: open Tried, and the top of the list is exactly what has quietly dropped out of the meals.
Why: A food tried once and never served again is how a texture win or an allergen tolerance quietly slips. The record already knew; now it tells you.
- Your usuals: save a multi-food meal once, log it in one tap
The multigrain-cereal problem: logging it right meant picking spelt, barley, oat and rice one by one, every single morning, so most people logged it as one word and the allergen tracker saw nothing. Now you build the meal once, tap "Save as a usual", and name it whatever the box says. Next time it is one tap on the Solids tab, and every food still logs individually underneath, so a first taste of spelt still counts as wheat, firsts still fire, and every caretaker of your baby sees the same list.
Why: The right way to log a boxed cereal should not be the miserable way, and the allergen tracker should never miss a wheat exposure because it was 6am.
- Sesame oil and nine more cooking oils join the food library
Logging "sesame oil" used to dead-end at "no match". The library now covers the oils real kitchens cook with: sesame (including toasted), coconut, avocado, canola, sunflower, vegetable, peanut, walnut, flaxseed, and mustard oil. The allergen handling follows the protein: sesame, peanut, and walnut oil count for allergen watches, because their common unrefined forms keep real allergen protein, and each note explains why oil is still a poor way to introduce an allergen on purpose. Plain vegetable oil does not count as soy, because highly refined soybean oil is fine for most soy-allergic people.
Why: If it goes in the pan, you should be able to log it, and the allergen tracking should follow the actual protein, not the label.
- The keep-it-in-rotation reminder now takes you to the ideas it promised
Tapping the "hasn't had fish in a while" notification dropped you at the top of the allergen radar, with the actual "easy ways to work it back in" list folded away further down the page. The tap now opens straight to that allergen's ideas, scrolled into view. And if you logged the food between the notification and the tap, the page simply shows your radar as usual.
Why: A notification that promises ideas should not make you hunt for them.
- Wet diapers no longer ask about size and consistency
The optional details on a wet diaper offered the same fields as a dirty one, but size, consistency and mucus describe stool, not urine. Pick Wet now and those fields step aside; color and blood stay, because both are still worth capturing for a wet diaper. This also fixes a quieter problem underneath: the color notes read everything as stool, so a wet diaper marked pale could raise the pale-stool warning even though pale urine is completely normal.
Why: A tracker should only ask questions the diaper can answer.
- Meals on the home timeline show every food with its emoji
A logged meal on the Today timeline listed its foods as plain text, so a thirteen-ingredient breakfast read as a wall of words while the Solids tab showed the same meal with every food wearing its emoji. The timeline now renders each food the same way the Solids tab always has, with the emoji glued to its name so lines wrap between foods rather than mid-pair.
Why: Emoji are how you scan a food list at a glance, and the home timeline is where you glance.
- Solids now stay in the order they actually happened
If you logged a meal after the fact, or edited one from earlier in the day, it jumped to the top of your recent bites as though it were the newest thing your baby ate. Breakfast could sit above dinner. The cause: the list was sorted by when you wrote the entry rather than when the food was eaten, and editing a meal rewrites it, which is why editing an early meal always threw it to the top. Solids now sort by the time you recorded for the meal itself, on the day it happened, so the timeline reads in real order. Feeds, sleep, diapers and meds were never affected.
Why: A feeding timeline that reorders itself when you correct it is worse than one you never corrected.
- Patterns now shows how close each quiet read is to waking up
Every read on the Patterns page has an evidence floor, and the ones below it used to just name what they were waiting for. Now they also show your progress toward it: "already banked: 9 of the 12 evening feeds it wants." The counts only ever count up, deposits you have already made, and a card with nothing banked yet stays a simple sentence instead of a zero. No streaks, no guilt, no homework. Skipped a week? The week still happened, and the log picks up where you left off.
Why: These reads get sharper with every log you keep, and you deserve to see that adding up rather than take it on faith.
- Patterns learns to answer the questions you actually carry
Seven new reads on the Patterns page (Plus), all from the log you already keep. Which bedtime slot has earned the longest nights in your house. Whether a feed close to bedtime has traveled with longer sleep, in your data, phrased as a pattern and never a cause. Which meal has been friendliest to new foods. When the biggest bottles cluster. Which foods graduated from a no to a yes this month, and which once-regular foods quietly fell out of rotation. And the careful one: if a fiber-friendly food like prunes or pears has been reliably followed by a dirty diaper in your log, Patterns will say it is worth noticing, with the receipts, and with real worries routed to your pediatrician where they belong. Every read stays silent below its evidence floor: a pattern from six data points is a coincidence with confidence.
Why: Every baby book tells you about babies. Your log should tell you about yours.
- The sitter page gets Poison Control and smarter family-allergy advice
Two upgrades to the printable sitter page. Emergency numbers (911 and Poison Control, 1-800-222-1222, free and answered 24/7 in the US) now sit right on the safety card for everyone, free plan included. And family allergies got smarter: a food a parent is allergic to used to sit under "Do not give" forever, even after your baby had eaten it many times without a reaction. Now, once your own log shows the baby tolerates it, the sitter page moves it to a clear "already fine for this baby" note instead, keeping the family context without telling the sitter something your own records disprove.
Why: A sitter page has one job: being right in the moment someone else is holding your baby.
- No more "Who are we feeding?" when the app wakes up slow
Reopening the app sometimes showed the add-a-baby welcome screen instead of your family, with tracker cards stuck on Loading until you force-closed and reopened. The cause: when the app resumed before your phone finished waking its connection, a failed data request was mistaken for "this account has no babies." Now a failed request is treated as what it is, the app retries on its own, and it remembers your family between launches so the real screen paints immediately.
Why: An app you open one-handed at 3am does not get to greet you like a stranger.
- Foods that are not for babies now say so while you log
Two dozen foods in our library (raw fish, unpasteurized juice, hard candy, high-mercury fish, and friends) are ones we tell parents not to serve at all. You can still log them, on purpose: if someone slipped the baby a taste before you could object, that dated record is exactly what you and your pediatrician want. But the logger now warns you loudly at the moment you pick one, prepare-with-care foods show their safety rule right there too, and the quick try-it-out page no longer offers a cheerful first-bite form for foods that should never have a first bite.
Why: A tracker should record what happened without ever nudging you toward something unsafe. Recording is not endorsing.
- Voice logging now understands hyphenated foods
Saying "Chinese five spice" out loud got you three puzzled suggestion chips instead of the food, because our food list spells it "five-spice" and the voice matcher took that hyphen literally. Speech never transcribes hyphens, so fourteen foods, including black-eyed peas, hard-boiled egg, and mahi-mahi, were unloggable by voice. Now a hyphen and a space are the same thing to the matcher, and all of them log on the first try. Caught by a parent logging a very ambitious dinner.
Why: Voice logging exists for the moment your hands are full of baby and dinner. It should not lose to punctuation.
- Correction: blueberries darken diapers with pigment, not iron
Our diaper explanation used to say "iron-rich or dark foods like blueberries" can darken stool. Half right, fully imprecise: blueberries are actually low in iron. Their deep color comes from anthocyanin pigments, and those pigments are what pass through. Iron really does darken stool too, but from supplements and fortified cereal or formula, which is a different cause. The explanation now names the right mechanism for the food you actually logged. Caught by a parent using the app, which is exactly how this is supposed to work.
Why: A black diaper is a check-for-blood moment. The reassurance that talks you down has to get the reason exactly right.
- Health photos: fixed, and now with a show-the-doctor mode
Two things. First, the honest one: health photos were quietly failing to save, and we fixed it the day we caught it. Second, the good one: a new "Show the doctor" button walks through your saved photos oldest to newest, full screen with dates and notes, built for the exam-room moment. And a detail worth knowing: a photo taken in the app never lands in your phoneâs camera roll (we checked, on iPhone and Samsung), but it does sync to your co-parent, so whoever takes baby to the appointment has it.
Why: A rash photo does not belong between birthday pictures, and describing a diaper from memory is nobodyâs best moment.
- Log everything with no signal. It syncs when you get some.
Bites could already be saved offline and synced later. Now every log can: feeds, diapers, sleep (starting, stopping, or adding one after the fact), and medicines, whether you tap them or say them out loud. Anything saved without a connection shows on Today as waiting to sync, sends itself the moment you are back online, and never double-logs, even if the connection drops mid-sync. Undo works on queued entries too.
Why: The nursery at 3 AM is exactly where the wifi is worst and the logging matters most.
- Whole-day schedules by age, starting with 6 and 8 months
Two new guides show how feeds, naps, and solids commonly fit together at a specific age, each with a realistic sample day, the common wrinkle of that age, and what changes next month. They are examples, never assignments: no health body prescribes a nap count, and babies renegotiate daily. More ages follow if these earn their keep.
Why: Every schedule page on the internet is either feeding-only or sleep-only. A baby has one day, not two.
- This changelog went public, and so did our safety process
Two new pages anyone can read without an account: this changelog, at yummyyuc.ky/changelog, and a plain-words writeup of how we keep the food advice honest, covering the checks that rerun before every update, the every-three-months human review we cannot skip, and the corrections we publish. The dates at the bottom of every guide now come straight from that review clock instead of being typed by hand, so they can never quietly go stale.
Why: Trust us is not an argument. Here is the system, go check it.
- Say the whole sentence. It all lands. Free.
Voice logging a whole sentence at once, "napped 1 to 2, drank 4 oz, then pooped" becoming three entries, used to be a Plus feature. It is now free for everyone. Hold the Log button, say your piece, review what it heard, done. Transcription still runs entirely on your phone.
Why: The easier logging is, the more of your babyâs story gets kept. That should never have a toll booth on it.
- One-tap logging for the things that happen ten times a day
Today has a new quick-log row: tap to log a wet or dirty diaper, start sleep, or repeat the last bottle exactly, each with an Undo right in the toast for the mis-taps that come with holding a baby. The log sheet now opens on the tab you actually use instead of always starting at Solids, so a pre-solids family lands straight on Feeds. Your usual bottle amount comes preselected. While sleep is running, the Log button shows a little sleeping face and opens straight to Sleep. And if you did not know you can hold the Log button and just say it, a one-time tip in the sheet now tells you. Android app-icon shortcuts (long-press the icon to jump straight to logging) arrive with the next app update.
Why: Logging a diaper was three taps. The things you do ten times a day should cost one.
- A guide to what the AI in baby apps actually does
Every baby app suddenly says AI, and the badge tells you almost nothing. The new guide walks through what these features really do, where modern AI genuinely helps (logging by talking, asking your own history), where the line sits between describing your data and diagnosing your baby, and six questions that beat the label. It ends with our own sheet filled out, because we make a baby tracker too and you should get to grade us with the same questions.
Why: Sophistication is not evidence that an answer is trustworthy, and parents deserve the difference in plain words.
- Ten recipes for the foods we told you to make at home
A lot of our food guides end with the same advice: skip the salty store version and make a simple one at home. Fair, except searching for the recipe found nothing. Ten of the most-asked are now in Recipes, free like all of them: baby tater tots, oven chicken nuggets, baked fish sticks, soft oven fries, little meatballs, first mac and cheese, oat and banana pancakes, no-sugar applesauce, frozen yogurt melts, and first guacamole. Each one handles the choking prep in the steps and names its allergens up front.
Why: A guide that says "make your own" owes you the recipe. One of us went looking for the tater tots one and it was not there.
- The play ideas moved in with the milestones they serve
On the development checklist, the two "play along" ideas for each area now sit directly under that area, right where you just ticked. They used to live in their own section at the bottom of the page, below the earlier checklists, where honestly nobody scrolled. Nothing about them changed except the address.
Why: We built something genuinely useful and then hid it under the fold. Found it during our own use, which is embarrassing and also exactly how it should get caught.
- The vaccine record is free now, and it prints
The immunization record has moved out of the Plus checkup report and onto the Health tab for everyone. Add shots as they happen, or let an import bring them over, and print a clean one-page copy to hand a sitter, a daycare, or a new pediatrician. It also fixes something that was quietly unfair: importing your history from another app already brought your shot records in, but on the free plan there was no page that showed them. Your own records were in here and you could not see them. Now you can. It is a record you keep, not a schedule: your pediatrician owns the timing.
Why: The record is yours. Paying us should buy insight, never your own data back.
- Two more honest comparisons, and privacy in plain English
New comparison pages for Baby Connect and Glow Baby, written the way ours always are: every claim about their product read on their own pages with the date we checked it, and their strengths stated plainly. Baby Connect earns daycares; Glow earns its free breadth. One verified difference worth knowing: Glow charges for data export, and Baby Connectâs price is not published on their own site. Ours is free to leave and public to see. The privacy guide also gained the five questions everyone actually asks, answered in one line each: no, we do not sell baby data; no, there are no ad trackers; no, your voice never leaves the phone; caregivers see only what you share; and deleting your account really deletes it.
Why: A comparison that admits where the other side wins is the only kind worth reading.
- All the baby recipes, finally on one page
There are 112 free recipes here, each one choke-safe, no added salt, allergens named, and until today there was no page that listed them. They were reachable from a single link on one food page and nowhere else. yummyyuc.ky/r now lists every recipe, it is linked from the bottom of every page, and the Learn page gained an A-to-Z list of all 139 guides so the newest ones are no longer findable only by search engine luck.
Why: We spent months writing recipes and then hid them.
- Diapers can record size now
Small, medium or large, on any dirty diaper, next to color and consistency. Voice picks it up too: say âsmall hard poopâ and both words land, where before the app kept âhardâ and quietly dropped âsmallâ. Saying âa little bloodâ still records blood, not a small poop. Size shows in the dayâs list alongside the rest.
Why: Small and hard together is the classic constipation picture, and half of it was being thrown away.
- Food pages now answer to their British and Australian names
Search for courgette and the zucchini page never said the word, and the same went for aubergine, capsicum, beetroot, rockmelon, tenderstem broccoli, spring onion, prawns and porridge. The regional names lived in our search index but not on the pages themselves. Eleven pages now say âalso known asâŠâ right under the title, each name verified against a dictionary or growersâ source first, because on a food-safety site a wrong âalso known asâ could merge two different foods. A new check enforces exactly that: it refuses any alternate name that already belongs to a different food.
Why: A parent in London searching courgette should land on the right page and see their own word for it.
- Two fruits were missing a seed warning their siblings had
Sugar apple, sweetsop, custard apple, cherimoya and soursop are the same family, and several are the same fruit under different names. Three of them told you to remove every seed, because annona seeds contain a neurotoxin and only the soft ripe pulp should be served. Sugar apple and soursop said nothing at all, so which warning you got depended on which name you happened to search. All five carry it now. Mochi and soda were also marked never-serve without saying why, and two high-mercury fish on the avoid list could not be found by searching their own names.
Why: Which name you happen to search should not decide whether you are told about a neurotoxin.
- Forgot a food? Say the rest
Logging a meal by voice and remembering halfway through that there was also toast is normal, and the app already handled it: tap the voice button again, say the rest, and it joins the same meal instead of starting a new one. You can type foods in alongside it, and go round as many times as you need before you save. It skips anything you have already added, so saying a food twice will not log it twice. None of this was written down anywhere, which is a strange way to treat one of the more useful things in here, so the voice helper now says so.
Why: Nancy pointed out that this is the bit that helps a tired brain most, and we had never mentioned it.
- Searching âcherryâ now finds cherries
Typing cherry brought up cherry tomatoes, Cornelian cherry and ground cherry, but not plain cherries, because the library stores that one as âCherriesâ and the search only ever tried turning plurals into singulars, never the other way round. It now tries both, so it no longer matters whether you type carrot or carrots, tomato or tomatoes, cherry or cherries. Near misses are handled too: chery, bananna, avacado and brocoli all find what you meant. Those only appear when nothing matched properly, so a real search never gets padded with lookalikes. Ranking is fairer as well: typing milk used to put Milkfish above whole milk, because any name starting with those letters beat a name containing the actual word. The word wins now.
Why: You should not have to guess whether we filed a food under one cherry or a bowl of them.
- A meal logged with a video showed no thumbnail
Attach a video to a bite and it saved and played back fine, but the recent bites list beside it stayed blank, so the meal looked like you had never added anything. The list was only ever looking for a photo. It now shows a tappable frame from the video, and tapping it opens the clip full screen the same way a photo does.
Why: You went to the trouble of filming it. It should be there when you look.
- Food emojis went generic and voice logging stopped matching
Every food started showing the same plate icon instead of its own, typing a food name came back âNo matchâ for foods that are plainly in the library, and logging a bite by voice would hear you perfectly and then say it did not catch it. All three were the same fault: the app had quietly lost its food list. Two things caused it. The library passed a thousand foods, and only the first thousand were being sent, so the last twenty stopped existing anywhere in the app. And if the list ever came back empty for a moment, the app saved that emptiness and kept using it, so a single bad moment turned into a permanently broken food list on that device. It now loads the whole library however big it gets, treats an empty list as the failure it is, and repairs itself the next time you open the app. Nothing you logged was affected.
Why: Search, voice logging and every food icon all read from that one list, so when it went missing they failed in three ways that looked unrelated.
- The sleep reads are free, and now the page says so
Your longest stretch against your best, wake-ups a night, wake windows next to the typical range for their age, and a note when the numbers look like a nap transition rather than one rough week. All of that has been free on every plan and will stay free. The card now says as much, and points at where the same treatment is applied to feeds, diapers and first foods, on What your logs say, which is part of Plus.
Why: You cannot tell from a features grid whether anyoneâs analysis is any good. Sleep is the thing people most want read back to them, so that is the part we give away and let you check for yourself.
- Three different things were all called milestones
Journey had a card headed Milestones that awarded badges for logging: first bite, ten foods, a three-day streak. Milestone moments is where you record the developmental ones, first smile and rolled over and first steps. And the development checklist is the CDCâs list for their age. Tapping Milestones hoping for first steps and being congratulated on logging ten foods is a small letdown, and we were causing it ourselves. Journeyâs card is now Badges, which is what it always was.
Why: Parents use that word for first steps. We were using it for a logging streak.
- Trends and the checkup report were printing different numbers
Both pages answer "how many a day?" from the same logs, and they were dividing by different things. The checkup report divided each figure by the days that figure was actually logged. Trends divided everything by one span, from your first logged day to today. If you log feeds daily and diapers a few times a week, that is not a rounding difference: nine changes across three logged days in a fortnight read as 1.3 a day on Trends and 3 a day on the report, and the report is the one you hand a pediatrician. Both pages now use the same rule, which is the reportâs: each figure is averaged over the days it was logged. Both now say so on the page instead of implying the whole window, and Trends tells you how many of the last 7 or 14 days you logged on.
Why: Two screens showing the same baby should not disagree, and if one of them is going to the doctor it needs to be the honest one.
- One page to hand a sitter, not two
There were two printable pages for the same job and each was missing half of what the other had. The caretaker card listed the foods to avoid, the active allergen watch and the dayâs notes, but not your pediatricianâs number. The care sheet had the phone numbers and the dayâs totals, but its own thinner copy of the avoid list. Whoever you handed one to was short something. They are now a single sitter page: who to call, how the day has gone so far, what not to give, what we are watching, and todayâs notes. The safety half is free, as it always was. Plus is the part that remembers your doctor, your emergency contact and your own instructions and prints them alongside. Handoff stays where it is, as the live screen you check on your phone.
Why: Nobody should need you on the phone explaining which of the two pages has the phone numbers on it.
- The salt warning now travels with the food
Forty-one foods had a salt warning written on their guide page and nothing at all on the food itself, which is the bit that shows up when we suggest something, when you search, or when you log it. So the app could offer refried beans with no mention that the canned ones are often very salty, even though its own page says exactly that. Ham, bacon, kimchi, miso, sauerkraut, sardines, baked beans, hummus, anchovies, instant ramen and thirty more now carry the warning where you will actually see it. One entry was worse than silent: mujadara told you to serve a babyâs portion lightly salted, which is against both the NHS line and the foodâs own guide. That is corrected.
Why: Babies should not have much salt because of their kidneys, and canned or cured versions of ordinary foods are where it hides. A warning only counts if it is attached to the thing you are looking at.
- The shape of a day, from about a week in
Every read on What your logs say answered the same kind of question: what has CHANGED. That needs two stretches of history to compare, which is why the page had almost nothing to say for the first six weeks, however carefully you logged. There is now one that answers what is TRUE instead, and it only needs about a week: the shape of a day right now. Awake around this time, this many naps, down around then, this many feeds and changes. It is the thing that is genuinely hard to see for yourself, because it is spread across a few hundred entries, and it is what most people want to know in the first month. It is a description of the stretch you just logged, never a schedule to hit.
Why: The page was built entirely out of reads that pay off at month three, which is a strange thing to show someone in week two.
- Nothing changed is also an answer
What your logs say used to have one problem: most of it said nothing. A read that had enough history but found nothing moving looked exactly like a read that did not have enough history yet, because both came back empty, so most cards showed the same shrug about how either the history is young or there is no pattern. That was hiding real answers. If bottle volumes have held steady around 14 oz a day for two months, that is worth knowing, and for a lot of parents it is the reassuring thing they were quietly wondering about. Those now say so, with the numbers: diaper pace, night and day sleep, feed spacing, the milk and solids mix, bottle volumes. Reads that genuinely cannot speak yet are down to one line telling you what they still need, instead of a card each.
Why: Most weeks with a baby, steady is exactly the answer you were hoping for, and the page was throwing it away.
- Today, reordered around the question you actually have
"When did they last eat" is the question this page exists to answer, and it had ended up eight cards down. It is now the first thing under any alerts: fed, awake or asleep, changed, each with how long ago, and each one a tap to log that thing again. The day itself moved up with it, so what happened today is near the top instead of past everything else. What moved down is the app talking rather than the day reporting: the tip, the resurfaced memory, the iron read, the suggested bite. All of it is still there, still goes quiet when it has nothing to say, and now reads after the day rather than in front of it. There is also a way back to the deeper reads from the bottom of the day: Patterns is now called What your logs say, which is what it does, and it ends with a line pointing at the rest.
Why: Every card on the page was worth having. The order had stopped working once there were eight of them above the thing you opened the app for.
- The whole CDC milestone checklist, free
Whatâs next used to show our own shortened rewrite of the CDC milestones: eight ages, paraphrased, nothing to tick. It now carries the real thing. All 159 milestones from the CDCâs Learn the Signs. Act Early. checklists, 2 months through 5 years, in the CDCâs words rather than ours, grouped the way the CDC groups them. Tick what you have seen and it stays ticked, so the list is ready when you are sitting in the waiting room being asked exactly these questions. You see the age they are in and the one coming next, not all twelve lists at once, and the earlier ages sit one tap away for the ticks that happen late. The four ages where the AAP recommends a real developmental screening are marked, so you know to ask about it at that visit. There is no score. We count what you ticked and stop there: no percentage, no verdict, no opinion from us about what an empty box means. That conversation belongs with your pediatrician, and the CDCâs own words about when to have it are on the page. All of it is free. The play ideas that go with each age are still Plus. When your child reaches a new checklist age we will say so once, and then leave you alone about it.
Why: Catching a delay early is the whole purpose of the checklist, and the earlier it is caught the more the help helps. That is not something to put behind a paywall.
- A favorite has to be earned now
We were calling a food a favorite the first time your baby liked it, which is how a cucumber tried once at breakfast ended up described as one of their favorites by lunch. Liking something once is not the same as loving it. A food now has to be genuinely taken to before we call it a favorite: enjoyed more than once, still enjoyed most recently, and enjoyed more often than it is refused. The bar also grows with your child, which matters more than it sounds. For a six month old just starting out, twice is a real signal. For a toddler with a thousand meals behind them, twice is barely a rounding error, so the bar rises quietly alongside their own history rather than staying frozen at a number we picked. Suggestions that pair something new with an old favorite now use the real ones.
Why: Getting this word wrong makes the app sound like it is not paying attention. Your baby has actual favorites, and they should be the ones we name.
- Switching trackers? Bring your history with youHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Importing a file that wrote dates day first, like 1/6 for June 1, or a Nara Baby file with a dirty diaper's color or texture filled in. The first filed dates in the wrong month or skipped them. The second stopped the import partway with an error.Observed impact: None found. We searched the logs from before the fix for imported history and found none, so nothing was filed on the wrong days and no diaper detail was lost. Imports from that period leave no marker of their own, so this is a search of what was logged rather than a register of imports.Action needed: None.
If you are coming from another app, you no longer start from an empty screen. Export your data from Nara Baby or Huckleberry, upload it under More, and we bring your feeds, sleep, and diapers over into your log. You see a preview first, exactly what we found, before anything is saved, and re-importing the same file never doubles anything up. This is free: your history is yours, and moving it should not cost anything. Solids come over too, carefully. We match foods to our library only when the name matches exactly, never by guessing, and anything we do not recognize still comes across as plain history so nothing is lost. What we deliberately do NOT import: reactions, first tastes, or another appâs idea of what counts as an allergen being introduced. Those drive real safety surfaces here, and inheriting someone elseâs version of them could leave you falsely confident that egg was already handled. Imported foods land as history, and the app asks you to re-check your allergen tracker yourself. It brings the whole day across, not just the daily loop: temperatures and medicines land in Health, pumping sessions with Feeds, growth measurements and shots in the record, and the color and texture of a dirty diaper from Nara Baby now come over properly, where before they stopped the import partway with an error. Firsts your old app recorded come too if you are on Plus, since that is where the memory book lives; if you are not, we tell you how many are sitting in your file rather than losing them. Bath time and nail trims we leave behind, because we do not track those and there is nowhere honest to put them. (Since September 29 we do track them: bath time and nail trims now come across as activities, along with tummy time, walks, story time and play time.) The daily vitamin does come over, since that one we do keep, streak and all. From Huckleberry we now also keep how each sleep went: whether they went down upset, where they slept, and how they woke. In one real export that was 1,543 sleeps that used to arrive as bare times. And you no longer have to tell us which app you are leaving, or be leaving one we have heard of. Upload the CSV and we read the columns. One thing that quietly fixes: dates written day first. If your old app wrote 1/6 meaning the 1st of June, we used to read it as January 6th and file five months of your babyâs life in the wrong place.
Why: The hardest part of trying a new baby app is leaving months of logs behind. Now you do not have to.
- One Plus covers the whole householdObserved impact: None found. No account we hold shows a second person paying separately for the same baby.Action needed: None.
Plus now belongs to the baby, not to one login. When anyone caring for your baby has Plus, everyone tied to that baby gets the Plus features for them: the co-parent, the grandparent you invited, the sitter. No more paying twice for one babyâs keepsakes, letters, and reports. Nothing changes about who can join, and only you can add someone (they come in through an invite you send), so your household is exactly the people you chose to bring in. (Until September 19 it fell short for the person who does not pay in three places: adding a baby did not work, and the Sunday recap and the restock alert did not arrive. All three follow the household now.)
Why: We built the app around sharing the load. Charging each parent separately for the same baby was the opposite of that.
- Todayâs bite: one idea a day, with the why
The home screen now offers one food idea a day, picked from your own log and explained in plain language: a new taste that pairs with a proven favorite, a flavor family they have barely met, a food that flopped once and deserves another go (most take 8 to 10 or more tries), or a common allergen not introduced yet, framed gently. The reason is the point: generic lists cannot know your baby, and this one does, because you built the record it reads. The pick holds steady all day and rotates tomorrow, one tap logs it, a ânot this week?â tap snoozes a suggestion for seven days, and it stays quiet before solids or when there is nothing honest to say. When your log shows first tastes landing best at a certain time of day, a new idea arrives with that timing attached. The daily idea and its reason are free; Plus adds the runner-up ideas with their reasons. And for texture-ladder families: rung firsts (first purees, first lumpy food) now come back around as anniversaries with the other memories.
Why: The answer to "what should I try today?" was already sitting in your log. Now the app says it out loud.
- The feeding arc, sick days as stories, and a monthly letter
Five new pattern cards read the arcs parents feel but never see measured. Milk to meals: bottles easing down while solids climb, the normal shift toward table food told from your own log. Night feeds: about one a night lately, from three two months ago, possibly the best sentence a tired parent can read. Feed spacing: daytime feeds stretching from 2h 40m apart to 3h 20m. Morning wake-up: settled within about 20 minutes of 6:40, because predictable is plannable. And the nap transition read now sits on the Patterns page too. On the Health page and the pediatrician report, a finished fever now reads as one story instead of scattered rows: when it started, how high it ran, what was given, and when readings came back to usual, in your °F or °C. The texture ladder starts keeping its own timeline (purees to lumps to finger foods, dated) from your next change. And the monthly letter arrives: each month of the log written back as a keepsake, with the first tastes, the longest night, the milestones, and your own words from the portion notes. Printable, and a quiet month simply writes no letter rather than a hollow one.
Why: You lived these months. The log was already keeping them; now it can hand them back.
- Receipts everywhere
A little "see the data" toggle now lives under the insights you already had: the next-nap card shows what its estimate rests on (their own last wake windows, or age norms, and how many), and the keep-offering page shows the counts behind the timing read, the favorite-on-the-plate read, and your median tries to a win. And the favorite-on-the-plate read now speaks for moderate meal-loggers too, not just the most devoted: it needs five paired tastes now instead of eight, and the receipts show exactly how many it rests on.
Why: A plain sentence up top, and the data underneath for whoever wants to check our math.
- In Plus: patterns in your inbox, and a trend line for the pediatrician
The weekly digest email gains one line per baby when there is a real one to say, like "Sunday nights are usually Poppyâs longest stretch", with the numbers, because a recap you already lived through is nice but a pattern you had not noticed is a reason to open the email. The pediatrician report adds a two-month trend line: how the longest sleep stretch and the daily bottle total have moved, counts only, no judgments.
Why: Same promise as the Patterns page: a plain sentence up top, and the data underneath for whoever wants to check our math.
- Patterns: what their own history says
A new page for the spreadsheet parent in your life (it might be you). Patterns reads the logs you already keep and says things you could technically work out yourself but realistically never would: which night of the week usually runs longest, how bedtime has drifted over the last month, whether a shorter first wake window tends to mean a longer first nap for your baby, how your diaper pace is changing, how many tries a new food usually takes in your house, how bottle volumes have moved (bottles only; nursing is real food the math cannot see), how sleep is consolidating into the night, and, once you have thirty days of history, how deep the log itself has grown: months, entries, and foods nobody else has. Every card leads with a plain sentence, and a little "see the data" underneath shows the receipts: the medians, the windows, and exactly how many nights or mornings each claim rests on. Three promises hold everywhere. These describe your babyâs own history, never a comparison to other babies. A pattern is not a cause, and the cards say so. And a card with too little history, or no real pattern to report, stays quiet, because silence is more honest than a stretch. Nothing new to log; more history sharpens every card on its own.
Why: You gave the app the data. It owes you something interesting back.
- A calmer first day, and one question worth asking
If you started as a guest from a diaper or bottle page, the app used to greet you with the full solids experience: bite counters, first-foods checklists, allergen cards, none of it relevant to your two-week-old. Now, until we know your babyâs age, you get the quiet version: feeds, sleep, diapers, and nothing else. The getting-started list gains one new step, the only question we will ever put in front of you rather than work out ourselves: the birthday. One date, typed right there on the page, and nap timing, solids readiness, and age-right guidance all tune themselves to your baby. Skip it and everything still works; the food tools appear on their own the moment you log a first bite. And when a guest saves their account, there is finally a spot to give your baby their name, so nobody is stuck with a keepsake book about a child called Baby.
Why: A great first visit means showing the right things, not all the things. One optional date does more tuning than any questionnaire.
- Kilograms and Celsius, for everyone who does not think in pounds
Feeds have always let you pick ml or oz, but weight and temperature quietly did not. Weight took pounds and ounces only, and the thermometer field took Fahrenheit only, so if you think in kilograms and Celsius you were doing conversions in your head at 3am, or you simply could not log a temperature at all: the safety check that rejects impossible readings was written in Fahrenheit, so a perfectly normal 37 got refused as implausible. Both now have a unit switch right next to the field, and the app starts on whichever system your device already uses. Nothing you have logged changes. Weights and temperatures were always stored the same way underneath, so switching just changes what you type and what you read, on that device, and your co-parent can read it the other way on theirs.
Why: Most of the world weighs babies in kilograms. Refusing their numbers was not a preference, it was a bug.
- If your baby already reacted to something, tell us once
Plenty of babies react to milk, soy or egg long before solids start, through breast milk or formula, and until now the allergen radar had no idea. It would cheerfully put a gold star on the exact food your pediatrician told you to hold. You can now flag any of the nine as one your baby has reacted to, including how it showed up. We stop suggesting that one, drop it out of the rotation reminders so nothing contradicts itself, and carry it into the pediatrician summary with the date and the route. The important part is what we do NOT do: holding one allergen never holds the others. Guidance is clear that delaying the rest raises risk, so the radar keeps the other eight moving on their normal timing and says so on the page. We are not writing the plan here. Your clinician does that, and we keep the record.
Why: One bad early reaction makes it tempting to pause everything. That instinct is the one thing the evidence argues against, so the app should hold exactly what your doctor is holding and nothing more.
- Keeping an eye on iron, honestly
Iron is the nutrient that matters most in the first year: a babyâs stores run down around six months, and the CDC recommends iron-rich foods daily from then. So Today now shows a small card counting the days iron-rich foods appeared in your log, with examples. One thing we will not do, on purpose: tell you whether your baby is getting âenoughâ. We do not know your portion sizes, so we cannot judge amounts, and we will not pretend to. What we can say truthfully is which days iron showed up, that meat, poultry and fish absorb best, and that beans, lentils and fortified cereals count, all per the CDC. Your pediatrician does the interpreting; we just bring the record.
Why: Iron worry is real and mostly invisible. A day count you can glance at beats both silence and false precision.
- In Plus: iron on the checkup report
The pediatrician Checkup report carries the iron count from Today over two weeks, sourced to USDA data food by food.
Why: Iron worry is real and mostly invisible. A line your doctor can read beats both silence and false precision.
- Sleep records join the firsts, with confetti
The firsts collection only knew food, but some of the most-told stories in parenting were sitting in the sleep log: the first 4-hour stretch, the first 6, the first time through the night. Those now appear on your Firsts page, dated from your own history, and the moment a new longest-ever stretch is logged you get the same celebration a first taste gets. On its anniversary, the memory comes back around: "a year ago tonight, the first time through the night." A few more quiet additions in the same spirit: the little notes you write behind the portion chips ("didnât want to stop eating applesauce") now resurface as memories, a food that grew from a single taste into a full serving gets its story told, and a month of daily vitamins with no gaps earns a word of recognition, since nobody else hands out medals for that. One promise across all of it: sleep records only ever speak on good news. A short night is just a night, and the app will never tell a tired parent their babyâs sleep is getting worse.
Why: You were already writing this diary. We just started reading the whole thing back.
- When the app learns something about your baby, it says so
Three quiet additions that all come from your own log. First, the app now tells you the moment it notices a pattern, instead of leaving it on a page you would have to think to visit: the first time it can see when new foods land best, or how many tries foods usually take for YOUR baby, or whether a favorite on the plate actually helps, a small note appears on Today, once. Second, that last one is now checked for real: because meal logging records which bites shared a plate, we can compare new foods served next to a loved food against new foods served without one, in your own history. And third, the memory resurfacing learned the best story it can tell: on the anniversary of a refusal of a food your baby now loves, it hands the whole arc back. "Broccoli got a firm no, twice. Now? A favorite." Everything here stays silent until there is enough history to be worth saying, because a pattern invented from six bites would be worse than none.
Why: Articles can tell you about babies in general. The only thing that can tell you about YOUR baby is their own record, and it should speak up when it has something, not wait to be asked.
- The app now notices WHEN new foods go over best
Almost every bite you log carries a clock time, and until now nothing read it. Now, once there is enough history, Keep Trying shows when first tastes actually land for your baby: "27 of 30 new-food tries got a yes in the morning, against 3 of 7 in the evening." The logger uses it too, so after a rejected bite the encouragement can add the one useful lever you have besides patience: the time of day that has been working. It stays completely silent until at least two parts of the day have enough first-taste history to compare, because a pattern invented from six bites would be worse than no pattern.
Why: Every feeding guide says "keep offering." None of them can tell you that YOUR baby says yes at breakfast and no at dinner, because that answer only exists in your own log. This is the kind of thing we can know about your baby that no article ever could.
- Wipes now get the same running-low warning as diapers
Tell us how many wipes you have and we will tell you when you are about to run out, using the diaper changes you already log. Nothing extra to track. It also counts properly: a dirty change burns several wipes and a wet one burns a couple, so the estimate follows whichever phase you are actually in rather than assuming an average. On real logs that difference is about 28%, which on a big pack is a few weeks either way. The nudge is deliberately gentler than the diaper one, since running out of wipes means reaching for a flannel, not an emergency.
Why: Wipes are the thing everyone buys constantly and nobody thinks about until the box is empty at 2am. You were already giving us the information needed to see it coming.
- Whatâs next got 8x more to actually do
The Whatâs next page pairs the CDC milestone checklist with things to try at home. The checklist half was always complete; the doing half was two ideas per stage, and a stage lasts three months. It is now eight per stage, 64 in total, sorted under the same four headings the checklist uses so each idea is attached to the thing it helps with. At 9 months, peek-a-boo sits under Social because that is the month they work out you still exist when you leave the room, and rakeable finger foods sit under Movement because raking food is literally on the list. They are ideas, not a second checklist. Skip any that do not suit your week.
Why: Anyone can find a milestone list. Knowing what to DO about it is the part worth having, and two suggestions for a three-month stretch was not that.
- We read every remaining guide line by line
The last 136 food guides that had never been fact-checked have now been read in full, not skimmed by a script. Most needed nothing, which is the result we wanted. Five did. Walleye was listed as a low-mercury everyday fish in one part of the app and a moderate-mercury occasional one in another; the cautious version was right, and the app now agrees with itself. Perch was described as a once-a-week fish when it is actually in the FDA lowest-mercury group you can serve twice a week. The morel page said raw morels cause an upset stomach, when the outbreak we now cite killed two people, so it says that instead. And rhubarb, swiss chard, veal, quelites and morogo were the only guides of 939 that never told you WHAT AGE to start, because their prep sections were written as steps instead of ages. They have proper age ladders now. Separately, 79 guides made a correct safety claim while linking to a source that did not mention it, so a parent clicking through to check us would have landed somewhere unhelpful. They all point somewhere that backs the claim now.
Why: You should be able to click any claim we make and land on the page that proves it. That only works if someone has actually read every page, so we did.
- Pasta: which shape, and the truth about "protein" pasta
Our pasta guide already told you to reach for a big grippable shape like fusilli or penne, cooked well past al dente, because a six-month-old grabs with a whole fist rather than finger and thumb. What it did not cover was the chickpea and lentil pastas that are now on every shelf. They are worth knowing about: the texture cooks denser and stickier, which is harder work for a beginner, but the bigger point is that legume pasta is not really pasta, it is legumes. Chickpea, lentil and pea proteins cross-react with each other and with peanut, so it is a new allergen introduction on its own day, not a swap for the wheat pasta they already eat.
Why: Nancy went looking for pasta advice and found a decent answer that stopped short of the thing that actually matters. Swapping in a "healthier" pasta feels like a nutrition decision and is quietly an allergen one.
- The Explorer now knows what they LIKE, not just what they have met
Until now the Flavor Explorer counted the foods you had tried in each flavor family and ignored how they went, so "explored bitter greens" could mean "met kale once and hated it". It now shows how many of the foods you offered in each family actually landed, as a plain count. If one family is running low and another is going well, it suggests bridge foods: things that sit in both, so you are offering half a flavor they already trust instead of another lone green. A low row is a place to keep offering, never a verdict on your kid.
Why: Where you have been is a map. What they like is a read on your actual baby, and it is built from months of your own logging that nobody else has.
- Your Sunday recap now reads all four trackers at once
Solids, sleep, feeds and diapers each answered questions about themselves and never talked to each other. The recap now compares your week against the three before it and names anything that moved a lot, side by side. Small wobbles are ignored on purpose, because baby data is noisy and a page that announces every 5% change is a page you learn to skip.
Why: The interesting weeks are the ones where two things moved together. We will show you both numbers and let you make of them what you like. We are deliberately not telling you one caused the other, because a feeding app cannot know that, and anything genuinely worrying belongs with your pediatrician.
- Toddler meal ideas went from 17 to 63
The toddler meal ideas list had 17 entries, which is about a week before you have seen all of them. It is now 63, spread evenly across breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, and it still leads with the meals built from foods your toddler already eats. Every one names how to serve it safely, and anything round still tells you how to cut it.
Why: A toddler eats roughly a thousand meals a year. Seventeen ideas is a rounding error, and running out of suggestions is the whole reason people stop opening a meal planner.
- The app now tells you which try you are on
When you log a đ or a đ€ą on a food that has not landed yet, the logger tells you how many times you have offered it, and what that number usually means. Research says a new food often takes 8 to 10 or more tries, and most of us give up around three. The Keep Trying page also learned to do the maths on your own baby: once five foods have been won over, it tells you the median number of tries YOUR baby needed, which beats any number from a study. Nothing appears for a food your baby liked straight away, which is most of them.
Why: The moment you decide to stop offering a food is the moment you are staring at a face full of rejected broccoli. That is exactly when it helps to know you are on try four of a normal eight, and that the parents who get there just kept going.
- Recipe search now knows tahini is sesame
Searching the recipe list for an allergen only found recipes that happened to spell it out, which is almost none of them. "Wheat" returned 2 recipes when 16 contain wheat, because the other 14 say bread, pasta, toast or udon. "Sesame" found 1 of 4, since the rest say tahini or hummus. Soy and fish found none at all. Milk looked like it worked and was finding 9 of 20, because cheese, ricotta and butter never say milk. Search now understands what an ingredient actually contains, and each result tells you why it matched, so a hit on hummus shows "uses hummus". While we were in there we also stopped the search for "egg" from returning eight vegetable recipes, which it had been doing on the "egg" inside "veggie".
Why: Nancy noticed tahini and sesame were coming up short and asked whether wheat returning 2 was right. It was not: it should have been 16. If you are searching an allergen you are usually either trying to introduce it on purpose or trying to find where it is hiding, and both of those need the whole list.
- The egg tracker stopped nudging you toward runny eggsHow we found it: Our own testing.What it took: Opening egg in the allergen tracker, where "Soft or runny" carried a "not tried" badge like the forms to work through. Logging a food named like "soft scrambled egg" also marked the runny form as tried.Observed impact: None found. We checked every food log on file: no runny, soft-set or otherwise undercooked egg has been logged for any baby, so nobody acted on the rung we should not have shown.Action needed: None.
In the allergen section, egg had three forms to work through, and the third was "Soft or runny" sitting there with a "not tried" badge like a box to tick, even though its own description said raw or barely set egg is not for babies. It now reads "Runny or barely set" and is badged "not for babies" instead, and nothing in the app will ever suggest it as your next step. We also fixed the sorting: a soft scramble that is cooked through was being filed as runny, when it is simply a well-cooked egg and counts as one.
Why: Nancy spotted it and put it plainly: we were giving people credit for trying something we had just told them not to do. A checklist that rewards the one thing on it you should skip is a checklist working against you.
- We fact-checked our own riskiest pages, and found plenty
We went through our highest-risk food guides line by line against the FDA, CDC, NHS and USDA, and fixed what did not hold up. Five pages listed the high-mercury fish to avoid and stopped short of the full list, which is seven species and includes bigeye tuna, the thing a lot of "fresh tuna steak" actually is. Grouper and snapper gained a note about ciguatera, a reef-fish toxin that cooking does not destroy. Mussels gained one about biotoxins, and got a real cooking endpoint instead of "until the shells open", which is where cooking starts, not where it ends. Rhubarb, elderberry, raw bamboo shoots, raw flour and deli meat all had serious warnings written on their pages but nothing attached to the food itself in the app, so the warning never travelled with the food. Abalone and octopus were calling themselves top-9 allergens, which molluscs are not. And a few pages disagreed with each other about ages, so cooked shellfish now says the same thing everywhere.
Why: We tell you a food is safe or not safe, and you act on it that day. That only works if we have actually checked, so we did, including the parts where we turned out to be wrong.
- 22 foods that used to say "no guide yet"
Real guides for the foods the app was happy to suggest but could not explain: gungo peas, string cheese, baby corn, snow peas, hake, blackcurrant, capon, frog legs, tamale, dolma, sambar, champurrado, risotto, gnocchi, pierogi, frittata, omelette, and the baking flours (wheat, whole wheat, oat, almond) plus cornmeal. Each one covers when to start, how to prep it by age, and the specific thing that makes it risky, like the fact that a string cheese stick is the classic choking shape and has to be pulled into strands, or that raw flour is a raw food and not a play dough.
Why: Suggesting a food and then telling you we have nothing to say about it is worse than not suggesting it. If it is in the app, it should come with instructions.
- The spice guides were there all along
We had written full guides for all 35 spices and herbs, nutmeg included, and the app was not linking to any of them: tap a spice in your food library and it looked like no guide existed. Fixed. Variety foods now point at the right guide too, so "blueberries" opens the blueberry guide and "basmati rice" opens the rice one instead of a dead end. And cornmeal porridge finally has a recipe to go with its guide, because "cook it soft and unsweetened" is not much help if you have never made it.
Why: Nancy hit all three in one sitting: a spice with no guide, a suggested food that led nowhere, and a recommended breakfast she would have had to go and look up how to cook. Suggesting a food and then leaving you to figure it out is not a feature.
- "Request a full guide" actually works now
If you asked for a guide on a food that does not have one yet, the button told you to sign in even when you already were, and the request was never recorded. It is fixed: your request is counted now, and the sign-in note only appears when you are genuinely signed out. We also corrected our nutmeg advice, which said to skip it entirely on cornmeal porridge while suggesting a pinch of it elsewhere. A pinch is fine from about 6 months; it is a heavy hand that is worth avoiding.
Why: A button that silently swallows what you asked for is worse than no button, and advice that contradicts itself between two pages is not advice you can trust.
- Recipes now show up in Library search
The search box on the Library tab now covers recipes alongside foods, guides, and spices. Type a recipe name or just an ingredient ("sweet potato") and matching recipes appear right in the results, including the ones you have saved yourself. The Recipes tab keeps its own search too.
Why: You should not have to remember which tab something lives on. One search box, everything in it.
- A meal planner that plans around your baby
Plus now builds you a week of meal ideas from our recipes, and it is smart about your baby. It keeps the allergens you have already introduced in rotation (most overdue first), works in the taste families they have not explored yet, and leans on the foods they love. Every meal tells you why it is there, so it is a plan you can trust rather than a random list. Shuffle it any time.
Why: Two of the hardest parts of feeding a baby are "what do I make this week" and "am I keeping their allergens in." This answers both at once, from your own baby's history, instead of a generic menu.
- Next-nap and bedtime timing, now free
Log a few sleeps and Today shows the next likely nap window by day and a reasonable bedtime by evening, read from your own baby's wake-window rhythm. This used to be a Plus feature. It is now free for everyone. Wake-window trends in Trends are free too. It is a heads-up, never a rule.
Why: Guessing when the next nap lands is one of the most stressful parts of a baby's day, and other apps lock it behind a subscription. Ours reads your baby's real pattern, and there is no reason to paywall a calmer afternoon.
- Oatmeal is not wheatHow we found it: Our notes from then do not say.What it took: Logging oatmeal (or porridge, or oats) or barley groats: each counted as a wheat introduction in the allergen tracker.Observed impact: None found. We checked every food log on file from before the fix. Every baby with an oatmeal or barley log had also eaten a genuinely wheat-containing food, so no tracker showed wheat as introduced on the strength of the wrong tag alone.Action needed: None. If you logged oatmeal before August 20 and your tracker changed afterward, the version you see now is the correct one.
We corrected the allergen tags on oatmeal and barley groats: oats are gluten-free and not a top-9 allergen, and barley is a gluten grain but not the wheat allergen. Neither counts as a wheat introduction anymore. If your tracker now shows wheat as not-yet-introduced, that is why, and it is the safer read: to actually check wheat, offer a wheat food like bread or pasta.
Why: Logging oatmeal used to give false credit for introducing wheat, which could leave a family thinking wheat was safe without ever testing it. Accurate allergen data is not optional.
- Baking ingredients you can log
Baking with your little one? You can now log wheat flour (all-purpose or whole-wheat), oat flour, almond flour, and cornmeal. Wheat and almond flour count toward those allergen introductions, so a batch of banana pancakes shows up as the wheat exposure it actually is.
Why: Real feeding happens in real kitchens. If a food goes in the mix, you should be able to track it, especially the allergen ones.
- A lot more real baby and toddler recipes
We more than tripled the built-in recipes (from 17 to 60), spanning first purées (avocado-mango, pumpkin-apple, beet-apple), 9-month combos (soft egg and avocado toast fingers, salmon and sweet potato, dal and rice, chicken congee, plantain and black bean), and toddler dinners around the world (rice and beans, a mild jollof-inspired chicken and rice, a soft peanut noodle bowl, turkey meatballs, beef and bean chili). Each is choke-safe, no added salt, no honey, with allergen notes, and built from foods already in your library.
Why: The daily "what do I actually make?" deserves real, safe answers, not just single ingredients. Recipes turn the food list into meals you can put on the table.
- A calm plan for the "I won't eat that" phase
When refusals pile up, Today gives you a gentle heads-up, and Plus adds a coaching page for riding out a food jag: the one rule that defuses mealtime battles (you decide what and when, they decide whether and how much), what actually helps, and the specific foods your little one is pushing back on right now, with anchor foods to serve alongside. Sourced, and honest about when it is worth calling your pediatrician.
Why: Food jags are normal and they pass, but in the moment they are stressful, and it is easy to slide into pressure, which backfires. A calm, evidence-based plan beats a mealtime battle.
- Toddler meals, built around what they already eat
A new Plus surface for the "what do I even feed them" stage: real, balanced toddler meals from breakfast to dinner, ranked so the ones your toddler already has the ingredients for come first, each with one gentle stretch food to keep trying. Curated by us, never a random combo generator.
Why: Toddlers eat like little people now, and the daily "what's for lunch" gets old fast. Starting from the foods they already like makes the answer easier, and sneaks in one new thing at a time.
- The app grows up when your baby does
Once your little one hits a year, Today starts speaking toddler: a gentle heads-up that days settle into about 3 meals and 2 snacks, that the sudden new-food wariness is normal and passes, and a nudge toward Keep Trying for the foods you're working back in. Same calm app, meeting you where your kid actually is.
Why: First foods were never the whole story. The toddler stretch is where feeding gets tricky in new ways, so the app should grow up alongside your kid instead of staying stuck on purées.
- A reasonable bedtime, not a late one
In the evening, the sleep card now shows a bedtime window instead of a nap time. It's anchored to when your baby usually wakes in the morning and the sleep they need at their age, so it stays put instead of drifting later every time a nap runs long. Not enough sleep logged yet? It falls back to a typical range for their age.
Why: A wake-window nap timer will happily suggest a 10 PM 'bedtime' after a late nap, which is backwards. Bedtime should anchor to the morning, so now it does. A guide, not a rule.
- A texture ladder, from purées to table food
Explore has a new free Textures tab: the steps from smooth purées to mashed and lumpy, soft finger foods, mixed textures, and family food. Tap each one you've offered and it fills in, with a link to the sourced guide. Tracking each rung is free. Plus adds step-by-step coaching for getting from one texture to the next, and lets you keep a rung as a dated milestone. It sits right next to the allergen tracker, because texture is the other half of eating well.
Why: Texture quietly trips people up more than flavor does, and there is a sensitive window for lumps around 9 months. This is a calm, no-pressure way to see where you are and what is next. It is a ladder to climb, never a test.
- Photos and video on milestones
Milestones now hold a photo or a short video, not just words. Add the shot of the first wobbly steps or the clip of the first laugh right on the milestone, dated and age-stamped. We also drew a clearer line between the two keepsakes: Firsts is for first foods, Milestones is for the big developmental moments, and each now points to the other so you always land in the right place.
Why: A parent went to add a picture to 'first steps' and there was no way to do it. That is exactly the moment a keepsake is for, so now the photo (or the video) lives on the milestone itself.
- The food library passed 1,000 foods
We added a big batch of world foods, so the library now covers more than 1,000. That includes regional first foods and dishes (uttapam, jollof rice, ugali, milkfish, makhana and more), each with prep by age, choking notes, and honest safety sourcing. Two new deep-dive guides came with it: Indian first foods and West African first foods.
Why: Babies eat what their family eats. The library should treat jollof and dal as normal first foods, not exotic curiosities, so more families see their own table in it.
- Private health photos for the off days
When something looks off, a bloody or unusual diaper, or a rash, you can now save a private photo in the Health tab to show your pediatrician. It stays walled off from the rest of your logs and your keepsakes, visible only to your family, with an easy per-photo 'only me' option.
Why: A photo says more than a 2am description ever could, and you should be able to keep it somewhere private and dated instead of buried in your camera roll.
- YummyYucky is on the App Store
You can now get YummyYucky for iPhone from the App Store, alongside Android and the web. The same calm whole-day tracking, sourced food library, and allergen tracker, now a tap away on your home screen.
Why: iPhone was the most-asked-for place to have us, and some days you just want the app on your phone without thinking about it. Now it is there.
- Restock reminders, before it is a problem
If you track your diaper or formula stash, Plus now sends a gentle heads-up a few days before you run low, with a tap to the best price. It reads how fast you actually go through them, so the timing is yours, not a guess.
Why: Running out always happens at the worst moment. A few days of lead time means you buy at the good price, on your schedule, instead of a panic order at 2am.
- Share a private feed with family
Invite grandparents and family to a private, read-only feed of the moments you choose to share: photos and little notes. They sign in with a tap, no password, and they only ever see what you share, never your trackers or health. Nothing touches social media.
Why: The people who love your baby want to watch them grow, but not everyone belongs on a public feed. This is a calm, private place just for them.
- A heads-up before you run out
Your savings page now shows a restock radar: when your diapers or formula will likely run out, read from how fast you actually go through them, plus the best price to catch right now. Enough lead time to skip the emergency run.
Why: Running out is always a surprise at the worst moment. Now it is on your radar a few days early, when you can still shop the good price.
- Whatâs next for your baby
A gentle, age-by-age guide to what most babies are doing right now (from the CDC's milestones), and a peek at the leap that's coming. Tuned to your baby's age.
Why: You wonder if what you're seeing is on track and what to try next. This gives you a warm heads-up instead of a 2am search spiral. It's a guide, never a test.
- Keep the sounds, not just the pictures
Record short clips of the first laugh, the babble, a bedtime song, right in the app, and keep them alongside your other keepsakes. Play them back any time.
Why: A photo freezes a face, but the sound of them at this age is the thing you forget first. Now you don't have to.
- Write letters to your baby
A little time capsule: write notes to your child to read years from now, tagged to a moment like a first birthday or their wedding day. They stay safe with you until you decide to share them.
Why: The things you most want to tell them are easy to think and hard to keep. Now they have a home that only gets more precious with time.
- A care sheet for daycare or a sitter
Hand off one clean page: today so far (feeds, naps, diapers) and the foods to avoid. Print it or save it as a PDF.
Why: Whoever has your baby shouldn't have to text you fifteen questions. Now the answers are on one page.
- In Plus: ways to play along, and who to call on the care sheet
What's next suggests a few easy ways to play along at your baby's age, and the care sheet carries your doctor, an emergency contact and your own instructions.
Why: You wonder what to try next, and whoever has your baby shouldn't have to text you fifteen questions.
- A heads-up on the next nap
While your baby is awake, Today can now show when the next nap is likely, read from their own wake-window rhythm and their age. If they have been up longer than usual, it gently flags that too. A guide, not a rule.
Why: Catching the sleepy window before the overtired meltdown is half the battle, and this reads it off the naps you already log.
- A Sunday recap of your week
Once a week we send a gentle recap of how it went: the meals logged, the new foods tried, and a tap straight to the full picture. Someone should remember all of it. It doesn't have to be you.
Why: The app already quietly holds your whole week. It should hand it back to you now and then, instead of making you go dig for it.
- Walk into the pediatrician ready
Your checkup report now opens with a quick 'before your visit' summary: what changed since last time, and a short list of things worth asking about, all pulled from what you already logged. Conversation starters, never medical advice.
Why: The questions you meant to ask are the ones you forget once you are in the room. Now they are waiting at the top of the report.
- A printable memory book
Turn every first, milestone, and growth note into a designed keepsake book you can print, save as a PDF, frame, or gift. Find it from your weekly recap.
Why: The trackers fade, but the keepsake only gets more precious. It deserved to become something you can hold.
- See what happened while you were away
When more than one person is caring for your baby, the handoff screen now shows a warm recap of everything the other caretakers logged while you were out: the feeds, naps, diapers, and first bites, and who did what.
Why: Coming back after a few hours away and piecing together what you missed is its own little stress. Now it is just there, already added up.
- Share your flavor passport, and collect badges
The Flavor Explorer's world passport can now be saved as a designed card to share, with every region your baby has tasted lit up. A new badges shelf collects the milestones as you go (First Bite, Brave Eater, World Traveler, a full passport, and more), and the map gives you a little celebration the moment a new region lights up.
Why: Tasting the world is one of the happiest parts of starting solids. It should feel like filling a real passport, and be something you can actually show off.
- Your firsts collection got a glow-up
Everyone can now save a designed keepsake card of their firsts to share, no more plain text. And Plus brings the firsts to life: a full-screen reel of every first-bite face, a little "food story" of the biggest hits and misses, a printable poster to frame, and a gentle "on this day" note when a first hits an anniversary.
Why: You told us the firsts are the thing you will actually treasure years from now. They deserved more than a scrolling list.
- Reminders for medications and vitamins
Set a reminder for anything on a schedule: the daily vitamin D, a twice-a-day nebulizer, or a 10-day course of antibiotics with the days counting down. You pick the med, the dose, and the times, and we send a notification when a dose is due (and flag it in Health) so you can log it in a tap. It is a helper, not a substitute for medical advice, so keep following your doctor and the label.
Why: "Did I already give it?" is one of the easiest things to lose track of when you are running on no sleep. Now the app holds the schedule so you do not have to.
- Repeat your last feed without re-entering it
Feeds has a new 'Same as last' button. Tap it and the form fills itself in from your previous feed, the same bottle or nursing, ready for you to log.
Why: A baby feeds 8 to 12 times a day, usually the exact same thing as last time. Re-typing it every round was busywork nobody needs at 3am.
- Undo a sleep you logged by mistake
Ending a nap or logging a sleep now shows an Undo, the same as the other trackers. Tap the wrong wake time and you can put the timer right back.
Why: You are usually logging sleep while short on it, so a one-tap take-back means a fat-fingered tap is not a chore to fix.
- First bites got their own moment
The second you log a food the baby has never had, a card pops up to grab a photo right there. Missed it in the moment? Open Firsts and tap the empty frame on any first to add a photo later, even one from your camera roll.
Why: Those first faces are the thing you will actually want years from now. We did not want them buried two taps deep in a details screen while you are wrangling a spoon.
- Logging a real meal is finally quick
A real meal is rarely one food. It is oatmeal plus banana plus a shake of cinnamon. Now you build the whole plate from one box, tapping recent foods instead of typing each one, then rate it all at once.
Why: Babies move to mixed meals fast, and the old flow made you log them one food at a time. Every ingredient still gets tracked on its own for the allergen tracker. You just do it in a fraction of the taps.
- The formula calculator now speaks powder
Enter the ounces of powder you have on hand and we tell you how many days it lasts, in ounces and milliliters, tuned to your brand's scoop yield.
Why: You buy formula by the can of powder, not by prepared ounces. The math to bridge the two is fiddly and easy to get wrong right when you are running low and least want a surprise.
- Photos upload faster and lighter
Photos are now resized and compressed on your phone before they upload, so they post quicker and use far less data.
Why: A first-bite photo should attach in a blink, even on the crowded wifi in a pediatrician's waiting room.