Lovebug 17+

Poor ap, no flexibility, cry it out option only and even then doesn’t work!

Ap has very little flexibility for real life. Only preset options and is only suitable for cry it out parents. Plus it doesn’t even work properly when you have to do something different, like when your baby is sick. For example if you put night sleep in where you have to go and get your baby out of bed, when you try to put the second half of the night sleep in the stupid ap thinks that they have been awake from the end of the first night sleep? there are WAY better apps out there so go elsewhere!

Developer Response ,

Hi Mama Goat, it sounds like you have had a frustrating experience and I want to deeply apologize! We will be releasing an update this week to address some of the real life flexibility! We’d love to have your feedback later this week.

We teach four methods for sleep training. Our first is our minimal crying sleep coaching plan which starts early at about 8 weeks. Our next plans are 1) the chair method 2) the interval method and 3) the extinction method (commonly known as cry it out.) It sounds like cry it out is not for you, but for some families it is the most appropriate, and we actively work to honor all families choices. It seems we let you down. It probably feels like we don’t care about your choices and family preferences, but we really do. You can learn about the approaches we teach on our Instagram. Here is a live our sleep coach did: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPrikhZpulw/?utm_medium=copy_link

Did you chat with one of our sleep coaches? That’s included as a service in your plan.

If you are getting your baby out of bed but they are still sleeping, we recommend logging they are asleep in the arms of an adult rather than ending their sleep session since they really haven’t woken up. If you are feeding them, we know babies sometimes eat while still sleeping so you can safely log what you fed them we’ll consider them asleep during that feed. If they wake up, you can log if they’re calm, fussing, or crying and we’ll consider them awake until the next time you mark them asleep.

We’d love to learn more about any frustrations you have. We really want to honor every family situation. Our app came out this last summer, so we still have work to do, and we know it. Email us at help@getlovebug.com or, if you’re on our Pro plan, you can schedule a phone consultation with our sleep coach.

Better than other reviews would suggest!!

I think it’s really good! Lots of sensible info and advice, videos are easy to listen to without being patronising… I would recommend it! Did take me a couple of tries to work out exactly how I was meant to be logging things but even as a sleep-deprived technophobe I can’t say it was that complex. I would suggest it’s worth giving the free trial a go, personally I can’t see what’s not to like!

Rubbish

Super hard to use, you can’t log anything from the past (during the night) and when I finally managed to remember to log whilst breastfeeding my 7month old, while half asleep then logged back on the end his nap and everything had disappeared. Really not what you need when your 7+months into sleep deprivation…. More frustration 😂 give it a massive miss and focus your time on bubba.

Developer Response ,

Oh no! This is definitely not the experience we want you to have and we certainly don't need logs disappearing or making you more frustrated!

We’d love to have an opportunity to turn this around. Please reach out to us at help@getlovebug.com