Heartful Baby
Day-to-day tracking for newborns through toddlers. Best when your work centers on how the baby is doing day-to-day — feeding patterns, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones, vaccines, mom wellness. Home-screen widgets on iOS and Android (plus an iOS Lock Screen widget) put key info at a glance and shortcut directly into the right tracker.
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Quick facts
| Best age range | Newborn through toddler |
| Primary user | Parent / caregiver |
| Premium | Paid in-app, or granted on provider invitation |
| Multi-baby | Yes — separate profiles per child |
| Caregiver sharing | Yes — multi-user with per-entry attribution |
| Home-screen widgets | iOS and Android, plus iOS Lock Screen |
Tabs
| Tab | What's there |
|---|---|
| Home | Quick Log grid; active timer banner; daily summary; sleep nudge; mom wellness; tips; timeline |
| Trends | Date-range charts (feeding, sleep, diaper, tummy time); drill-down to per-entry list |
| Foods | 156-food intro tracker; food group filters; allergen flagging; per-food meal history |
| Health | Growth curves; milestones; AAP vaccines; doctor visits; medications; mom wellness; clinician PDF |
| More | Account, notifications, custom trackers, caregivers, clinician, customize home, tips |
Built-in trackers
Eight built-in trackers plus dedicated solid-meal logging and up to 10 custom trackers per baby.
| Tracker | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Breastfeeding | Dual-side timer, session count, daily total. First-side tracking helps moms alternate |
| Bottle feeding | Content type (formula / pumped / other); 1000+ USDA formula picker; mix ratio; ml/oz toggle |
| Pumping | Dual-side timer, per-side volume, daily summary |
| Diaper | Type (wet/dirty/mixed/clean), color picker (6 options), consistency selector |
| Sleep | Start/end session, manual entry, daily hours + session count |
| Tummy time | Timer-based, daily total |
| Bath | Simple event log with notes |
| Temperature | F/C toggle, status badge (normal / elevated / high fever) |
| Solid meals | Multi-food meals with reaction (😋 Loved / 😐 Neutral / 😖 Disliked) |
| Custom | Up to 10 per baby — counter / timer / boolean / note types |
Home dashboard
Customizable per-baby. The family can show/hide individual tiles and cards without losing historical data.
- Quick-Log Grid — one-tap access to every tracker
- Active Timer Banner — surfaces running breastfeeding, pumping, tummy time, custom timers
- Daily Summary — feeds, diapers, sleep hours
- Sleep Prediction Nudge — "Nap time in ~20 min" with confidence indicator
- Mom Wellness Card — daily mood check-in
- Tip of the Day — age-appropriate parenting tip
- Today's Timeline — chronological log of everything logged today
- Clinician Invite Nudge — surfaces when an invitation from your practice is pending
Home-screen widgets
A standout feature — most baby trackers ship widgets on one platform or neither. Heartful Baby has four widgets on both iOS and Android, plus a dedicated iOS Lock Screen widget.
Widgets surface key info at a glance. Tapping a widget opens the app pre-loaded to the relevant tracker — a few seconds faster than launching cold and navigating manually.
| Widget | What it shows | Tap behavior |
|---|---|---|
| Today | Today's feeds, diapers, naps, next-nap prediction | Opens the daily timeline |
| Next Nap | Countdown to next nap, wake-window progress | Quick-starts a sleep timer |
| Feeding | Time since last feed, type details | Opens feed logging |
| Quick Log | Tiles for feed, diaper, sleep, bath | Opens that specific tracker, pre-loaded |
The iOS Lock Screen widget surfaces glanceable info (e.g., time since last feed) — tapping unlocks and opens the app.
Why this matters clinically. Less friction means more consistent logging, which means cleaner data when you review the patient between visits.
Trends & charts
- Date range: today, 7-day, 30-day, 90-day (30/90-day are premium)
- Feeding chart — stacked bar breast vs bottle, ml/oz toggle
- Sleep chart — stacked bar nap vs night hours
- Diaper chart — stacked bar wet/dirty/mixed/clean counts
- Tummy time chart — line chart of daily minutes
- Drill-down — tap any bar to see per-entry list with edit/delete
Food introduction tracker
- 156 foods in a searchable 3-column grid with progress bar
- Filters by food group (Fruits, Vegetables, Proteins, Dairy, Grains, Oil, Others) and by allergen
- Status per food: Not Tried / Attempted / Mastered ("Loves it")
- Per-food meal history — every sitting, with reaction and sibling foods served alongside
- Smart auto-progression — a Loved reaction marks the food Mastered
Health Center
The clinical-grade depth of Heartful Baby.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Growth Curves | Weight, length, head circumference; WHO/CDC percentile bands (5th–95th); metric/imperial toggle; corrected age for preterm babies |
| Milestones | 140+ CDC milestones grouped by age; 4 developmental domains (Social, Language, Cognitive, Physical) with color-coding; confetti when checked off |
| Vaccinations | DB-backed AAP routine 0–18 yr; per-dose status (complete / due-soon / overdue / pending); decline / contraindication tracking with reason |
| Doctor Visits | Full CRUD log; AAP well-child schedule reference; visit reminders |
| Medications | Name, dosage, unit, frequency, start/end dates; course clustering; active-medication highlighting |
| Mom Wellness | Mood (5-level), hydration counter, symptom checklist, gap-aware mood line chart |
Sleep insights & predictions
- Wake window analysis using age-based recommendations (0–36 months)
- 14-day lookback of recent sleep patterns
- Confidence levels (high / medium / low) based on data volume and variability
- Trend detection (improving / stable / irregular)
- Surfaced on the Home tab and the Next Nap widget
- Push notification: "Nap time soon"
Mom wellness
- Daily check-in: mood (5-level picker), hydration counter, symptom checklist (fatigue, anxiety, headache, back pain, insomnia, nausea, mood swings, breast pain), free-form note
- Gap-aware mood line chart that handles sparse logs
- Postpartum screening signal — flows to your patient view if connected
Clinician PDF report
A one-page snapshot the family can email directly to you, even when not formally connected.
- Presets: Well-Visit, Sick-Visit, Custom
- Growth curves with norms
- Red-flag pills surfaced automatically
- A "What's on your mind?" cover note from the family
- Native email flow (Mail app on iOS, default mail on Android)
- Section toggles per category (feeding, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones, vaccinations, etc.)
Useful for visit prep when prep time is tight or when seeing a referral patient who isn't formally connected.
What you see when connected
Once a patient is connected and HIPAA consent is given, the following flows back to your patient record:
- Feeding patterns (frequency, volume, type, first-side balance)
- Sleep analysis (total, nap vs. night, wake windows)
- Diaper output (counts, consistency trends — early dehydration / GI signals)
- Growth trajectory with WHO/CDC/Fenton reference
- Milestone completion by domain
- Vaccination status (AAP-faithful)
- Visit history, medication log, temperature trends
- Food introduction + allergen exposure, per-food meal history
- Mom wellness signals
For how to review this clinically, see Working together — between visits.
Caregiver sharing
- Email invite to share access with partner, family, or nanny
- Multi-baby per caregiver
- Per-entry attribution — you can see who logged what
- Revocable from the parent's side
Premium paths
See Subscription paths for the full free-vs-premium matrix. In short:
- Direct subscription — monthly / annual / lifetime in-app
- Clinician invitation — premium granted automatically when you invite the patient
- Special promotion — free-trial links issued by the Heartful Sprout team for partnerships and campaigns