Notes for the night shift.
Plain-word guides to monitors, the nursery and the nights in between. Anything we say about the app is checked against the app itself, and every piece of health or safety advice links to where it came from.
Baby monitor apps, side by side.
Baby’s Day In, Cloud Baby Monitor, Baby Monitor 3G, Annie, Nani and Dormi side by side: phones, prices, alerts, lullabies and logs, from each app’s own pages.
Is a phone safe by the crib?
Radio waves, heat and cords: what the FDA, WHO, fire services and the CPSC say about keeping a phone by the crib, and how to set one up safely.
Do you need a breathing monitor?
Sock, under-mattress and camera monitors that track breathing or oxygen: what the AAP, FDA and NIH say, what a study found, and what lowers the risk of SIDS.
Baby monitor app, or a baby monitor?
Should you use a baby monitor app or buy a baby monitor? What each does well, where each falls short, and how to tell which one suits your home.
Where to put a baby monitor.
How far a baby monitor should be from the crib, how high to put it and where the cable goes, with the CPSC’s three-foot rule. Phones used as monitors too.
Are baby monitor apps safe?
Where does the video go? Who can watch? What is kept, and for how long? Seven questions to ask any baby monitor app, and how Baby’s Day In answers them.
A travel baby monitor in your pocket.
Hotels, holiday rentals, a grandparent’s spare room: how to use two phones as a travel baby monitor, what to pack, and what to check in a room you don’t know.
White noise and lullabies: how loud is too loud?
What a study of infant sleep machines found, what the American Academy of Pediatrics advises, and how to keep white noise and lullabies gentle on small ears.
The newborn sleep schedule.
Newborns don’t keep a schedule yet. How much they sleep, how often they wake to feed, when longer nights start, and what helps, from the AAP, NHS and CDC.
How to soothe a crying newborn.
Why newborns cry, how much is normal, the soothing the AAP and NHS recommend, what colic is, and the signs that mean it’s time to call the doctor.
Baby feeding chart, by age.
How much formula and how often, from the first days to a year, plus breastfeeding, hunger cues and signs of enough. From the AAP, CDC, NHS and WHO.
Less checking.
More knowing.
Two phones, no extra hardware. Free while we’re in early access.
