Baby feeding tracker
What should I record when I track a baby feed?
What to log for every feed, how many feeds a day is normal by age, and how to bring a clear record to your next health check.
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Baby tracking guides that answer the search first
Most families are looking for a specific answer when they search: what should I log, how do I see a pattern, or how do I keep everyone on the same page? Start here.
Each guide below is built to be skimmable, practical, and easy to share with a partner or carer. You will also find links into the matching BubSync features and related blog posts.
Baby sleep tracker
What should I track to understand my baby’s sleep?
What to log for naps and nights, how wake windows change by age, and how to tell a rough week from a real sleep regression.
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Breastfeeding log
What should I write down in a breastfeeding log?
Which side was last, and how long since the last feed. What to record in a breastfeeding log, what to skip, and how to read a week of it.
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Breastfeeding reminder
Should I set an alarm to feed my baby?
Where the “feed every three hours” advice comes from, when it stops applying, and how to set reminders that follow the baby rather than the clock.
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Shared baby care app
How do I share a baby tracking app with my partner?
How shared baby care works when more than two people are involved: who sees which baby, what a carer is shown, and what each plan covers.
Open guideOffline baby tracker
Does a baby tracker work without internet?
How a baby tracker keeps working with no signal, what happens when the connection comes back, and what to check before you trust one in hospital or on a plane.
Open guideBaby tracker privacy in Australia
Where is my baby tracker data stored, and who can see it?
What a baby tracker collects, where its data physically sits, what the Privacy Act 1988 asks of it, and four questions to ask any app before you log your baby.
Open guideNappy tracker app
What should a nappy tracker record?
What a nappy tracker should record, the wet and dirty nappy counts Australian health services publish by age, and when to call your child health nurse or GP.
Open guideNewborn feeding alarms
Should I set an alarm to feed my newborn?
When waking a newborn to feed is the right call, when you can stop setting alarms, and what published Australian and UK guidance actually says.
Open guideBaby firsts list
What baby firsts should I record?
A complete list of baby firsts to record, from the famous milestones to the small ones parents say they forget, grouped by when they usually happen.
Open guideShare a tracker with your partner
How do I share a baby tracker app with my partner?
Set up a baby tracker both parents log into from their own phone, what each person sees, and why one shared login is the wrong way to do it.
Open guideWhich one do you need?
- You are writing feeds down and are not sure which parts matter
- Baby feeding tracker
- Nights have got worse and you want to know whether it is a pattern
- Baby sleep tracker
- You are breastfeeding and want a log that is worth the effort of keeping
- Breastfeeding log
- Someone has told you to feed every three hours and you are setting alarms
- Breastfeeding reminder
- Your baby is sleeping through a feed and you do not know whether to wake them
- Newborn feeding alarms
- Two of you are caring for one baby and neither knows what the other did
- Shared baby care app
- You and your partner are both logging and neither phone shows the whole day
- Share a tracker with your partner
- The nursery has no signal and you want to know what an app does about it
- Offline baby tracker
- You want to know where your baby’s data goes before you log any of it
- Baby tracker privacy in Australia
- The child health nurse asked how many wet nappies and you had to guess
- Nappy tracker app
- You want to write the firsts down and keep forgetting which ones to look for
- Baby firsts list
What these guides are, and what they are not
Each one opens with a direct answer to the question in its title, in about fifty words, before any preamble. That is deliberate: most people arrive from a search with one question and no appetite for a personal essay first. The rest of the page is there if the short answer raises a second question, and every section is written to still make sense if you read only that section.
They are about tracking — what to write down, what a week of entries can and cannot tell you, and how to keep a record two people can both read. They are not clinical guidance, and they do not tell you how much your baby should be feeding or sleeping. Where a guide touches a number, it names the Australian source it came from and says who to ask instead: your GP, midwife, or child health nurse. If something about your baby worries you, that conversation is the answer and no app is.
Where a guide would be better served by a calculator than by prose, it links to one. All eleven are free, need no account, and run in the browser — wake windows, feeding amounts, growth percentiles and the rest.
If your question is about a person rather than a feed
Some questions are not about what to log but about who is doing the logging. A nanny who should see one child and not the family. A grandparent who would rather use a laptop. The daycare day sheet that never makes it into the evening. Two parents whose shifts never overlap. Each of those has a page of its own, written from the situation rather than the feature, and marking every step with the plan it sits on so nobody upgrades to find out.
The same is true of the two questions people ask before they choose an app at all: does it work with no signal, and where does the data go. Both have a guide above, and the answers are specific to Australia, because the data really is kept in Sydney and the Privacy Act really does apply. If you want every Australian fact about BubSync in one place, the Australia page has them, each linked to where it can be checked.
If you are still choosing an app
These guides assume you have picked something and want to use it well. If you have not, that is a different question and it has its own pages. We make BubSync, so read them knowing that — they are written to stay useful anyway, which is why each one carries a standing section on where BubSync is the wrong choice.
- The best baby tracker apps in 2026 — seven trackers on Australian prices and App Store ratings, each with a written note on what it does better than ours.
- BubSync vs BabyLog, vs Huckleberry, vs Baby Connect and vs Pebbi, vs Genie and vs Feed Baby — the six head-to-heads, each dated and sourced to the other app's own published material, including the three other Australian-made trackers.
- What BubSync costs — the free tier in full, what Premium adds, and the price in Australian dollars.
