Reading Infant Tracking
Trends → Infant Tracking holds what the family records day to day from Heartful Baby: feeds, sleep, diapers, temperature, and medications. Individually these are mundane. Read together over a week or two, they are often the earliest signal you get.
How the tab is laid out
A Summary column on the left gives you the headline averages for feeding, sleep, and diapers, each labelled with how many days it covers. The right-hand column holds one expandable section per log, where you open only the one you want to interrogate.
Feeding opens with the context that makes its numbers readable: the expected feeds per day for this age, the child's current weight, and the target daily volume derived from it. Below that sit the breakdowns, such as feeding types, formula amount, and breastfeeding frequency and duration.
Note the logged-days label on each section. Feeding and diapers here cover 7 days while sleep covers 14, so the averages are not describing the same period.
What each log tells you
| Log | What to look for clinically |
|---|---|
| Feeding | Volume, frequency, and type. Sudden drops in intake, or a pattern that changed without explanation |
| Sleep | Total hours, the nap-versus-night split, and wake-window consistency. Regression or fragmentation |
| Diapers | Daily count and consistency trends. An early signal for dehydration and for GI problems |
| Temperature | Fever episodes, and whether they line up with sick visits or a recent food reaction |
| Medications | Active courses, dosing adherence, and whether a course was finished |
Reading them together
The logs are more useful crossed against each other than read alone.
- Falling intake with falling diaper output suggests a feeding problem worth acting on, where either alone might not.
- Fragmented sleep that starts the same week as a new medication is worth a look at the medication.
- A fever episode next to a drop in intake usually explains the drop, so you can stop looking for a feeding cause.
Gaps are not zeros
These charts are drawn from logged days. A quiet stretch usually means the family stopped logging, not that the baby stopped feeding. Check engagement before treating a gap as clinical.
Families who stop logging altogether tend to go quiet everywhere, so the engagement columns on the Patients list are the faster place to notice it.