From the YummyYucky team, founded by Nancy Nash
A free wear time tracker for helmets, eye patches, hearing aids and braces
If your child wears a helmet, eye patch, hearing aid or brace, your orthotist, eye team, audiologist or orthopedic team gives you a daily goal, and somebody has to keep count. The wear tracker in YummyYucky does the counting: the time on each day beside that goal, the skin checks, and a history everyone caring for your child can see. It is free on every plan, and nothing about it shows until you turn it on.
What it does
- Hours on, beside your goal. A card on Today shows whether it is on and the hours worn today next to the daily goal you typed in from your care team, with a tap each time it goes on or comes off. Forgot to tap? Add the time later. For a harness or brace that never comes off at all, the card counts the days instead.
- A schedule to start from. If your team gave you a schedule that builds up over the first days or steps down over months, start from a published one or type in theirs. The tracker always says your team's schedule comes first.
- Skin checks. A quick check of the skin where it sits, with a photo if you want one, kept with your private Health photos. When your answer is one the care handouts say to call about, the tracker says so as you pick it, and who to call: as a rule your orthotist, eye team, audiologist or orthopedic team, and your child's doctor where the handouts say so.
- On every caregiver's phone. Whoever taps it, everyone logging for your child sees the same tracker on their own phone, and the history goes back to the first day, ready for the next appointment. Ending a treatment keeps the history.
- Out of sight until you need it. Nothing shows on Today until you turn it on, under Care extras on your child's page or from the line at the bottom of Health.
The gear it covers
When you set it up, each tracker says what programs usually give, and that your team's number is the one to use. Each also has a day-to-day guide, built from the care handouts of children's hospitals and clinics.
⛑️ Helmet (cranial orthosis)
Most helmet programs aim for about 23 hours a day, with an hour off for bath and cleaning. Your orthotist sets your goal, so change it anytime.123
A published schedule to start from: Hanger Clinic, Gillette Children's or Nicklaus Children's.
🩹 Eye patch (lazy eye, amblyopia)
Common prescriptions are 2 to 6 hours a day. Use the number your eye team gave you.456
A published schedule to start from: Newcastle Hospitals' example.
🦻 Hearing aids
The goal is aids in during all waking hours, often at least 10 hours a day, or about 9 for babies under 1. Your audiologist may set a different goal.789
A published schedule to start from: the example from Success For Kids With Hearing Loss.
🦶 Clubfoot brace (boots and bar)
Most clubfoot programs start at about 23 hours a day for the first 3 months, then nights and naps, about 12 to 14 hours. Your orthopedic team sets the schedule, so change it anytime.101112
A published schedule to start from: step-downs from the Ponseti International Association and eight hospitals.
Guide: Clubfoot boots and bar: the wear schedule and daily care
🦵 Hip harness or brace (hip dysplasia)
Some programs give 23 hours a day with time out for the bath. Your team's number comes first, so change it anytime.1314
A published schedule to start from: step-downs from the International Hip Dysplasia Institute, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and SickKids.
Guide: Pavlik harness and hip brace care: the wear schedule and daily life
Turning it on
Open your child's page and find Care extras, or use the line at the bottom of Health. Pick what your child wears, fill in what your team gave you, and a card for it appears on Today.
Related reading
Sources
- American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org): Baby Helmet Therapy, Parent FAQs (updated August 31, 2020)
- Shriners Children's: Helmet Therapy, with its STARband wear and care video
- The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Orthotic Prosthetic Unit: Helmet Therapy information sheet
- NHS: Lazy eye (reviewed August 25, 2026)
- Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust: Children wearing a patch for the first time (September 2024)
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust: Occlusion therapy (patching) (March 2022)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Hearing Aids for Children
- Seattle Children's: Getting Your Child Started on Wearing Their Hearing Aid at Home (PE1431, November 2025)
- AudiologyOnline: 20Q, Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Wear Time in Children (Jace Wolfe, May 2022)
- Ponseti International Association (University of Iowa): Bracing Tips
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (OrthoInfo): Clubfoot
- Great Ormond Street Hospital: Using the Ponseti technique to correct talipes (clubfoot) (2017)
- Scottish Rite for Children: Infants and Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (October 7, 2021)
- Children’s Wisconsin: Pavlik Harness, Home Care (revised January 1, 2023)
Turn on the wear tracker
Free. It keeps the hours on against the goal from your orthotist, eye team, audiologist or orthopedic team, the skin checks and the history, and stays hidden until you turn it on.
Find it in HealthLast updated September 2026. Next review December 2026. How we write these: built from current published guidance from the AAP, CDC, FDA/EPA, NIAID, WHO, and other pediatric and public-health authorities, with sources cited on the page. See our editorial and medical policy for how we research, source, and update these, and how we double-check the food advice.
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