There’s an excellent app called BabyConnect that we used for this with our daughter.
Of course eventually we (like most parents I believe) learned to relax and not obsessively record sleep, feeds and nappies. My friends who have more than one child said after the first they didn’t do any recording like this and instead just let things take their natural course.
There is a market for this. But I can’t see anything doing a better job than baby connect.
Agreed on all points. Though in the early sleep-deprived months I did find it useful to have a big, dashboard-style display. I built one with a userscript on top of the Baby Connect web interface.
Our daughter had feeding issues and medicine that had to be administered in certain intervals so it was really useful to see at a glance what was going on.
The feature I really wanted was Alexa or Google Home integration for logging events or checking times.
My wife and I have been using BabyConnect since our son was born (he's 4 months now) and while the app is fine, I could definitely imagine something that does the same thing better. UX could definitely be better or prettier, network synchronization could work better. Beyond that it might be fun for the app to do some data analysis or have reminders, but that's a slippery slope. Parents freaking out about some simple algorithm mis-predicting their kids behavior is not a good thing...
uGrow [1] by Philips is a similar app with another UX (I leave the better to others to judge). It has some options to connect with IoT devices for automated logging.
Disclaimer: sat next to the guys who made this at some point in time.
Disclaimer 2: never used personally (though I have kids). As said before, you learn to relax. Tracking is too much hassle for me.
That looks good and is along the lines of how I was thinking Baby Buddy could develop if not as an open source project - e.g. as a service to sell to caregivers. I don't recall seeing that one back when we were looking at options.
Of course eventually we (like most parents I believe) learned to relax and not obsessively record sleep, feeds and nappies. My friends who have more than one child said after the first they didn’t do any recording like this and instead just let things take their natural course.
There is a market for this. But I can’t see anything doing a better job than baby connect.