Glow Baby Tracker & Growth App 17+

I’ve been using this app since my first baby in 2019 and my one month old. This app is great and definitely what everyone should use if they have a baby themselves. It’s super simple to use and I love the compatibility with the Apple Watch. Makes it super easy especially when you barely have hands when you’re a mom. I’ve been tracking since the day she was born. I’m not extremely religious about it and miss logs here and there but have a majority of good information that gives me insight which is probably what a lot of parents need. Why is my baby fussy? Maybe didn’t get a good nap in that day? I like to look back at the history on when baby had a great day and try to replicate what I did to give baby the best day possible. Obviously with baby, every day is different but if you know what to look out for its much easier as a parent. WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN AN UPDATE!! Pretty please 😬😬😬 Hopefully the developers or someone from this app sees this but something if you could adjust the 24 hour time period to your preference. Similar to the “filter” feature.. You could adjust 24 hour cycle - example) from 9pm to 9pm. Something that’s important to me as a mom is sleep and I don’t start bedtime at midnight. I start bedtime at 7 or 8. It would be good to have the visibility of the 24 hour period in which she starts her sleep cycle. Let me know if this makes sense.

I am a first time mom who is breastfeeding so a tracking app is 100% necessary to keep my brain straight! I love how I can keep track of everything from my daughter’s diaper change, including it’s color and consistency, to her feedings whether they are just on the breast or a mixture of breast, bottle, formula etc. I also love that my husband or whichever caregiver I allow access can add their own logs of diapers, feedings, activity, or whatever happens when they are taking care of her. My daughter is having slow weight gain so being able to pull the data into a CSV to share with my doctor is also super helpful.

The one thing I would love to see is notifications. Being able to set notifications like when the next feeding is approaching or if we haven’t logged a diaper in a few hours would be EXTREMELY helpful. We have a thousand things going on as new parents and sometimes have to go play catch-up on logging items is a little inconvenient. Smart notifications that we can set through the app would be very helpful.

Another wishful item would be a Home Screen widget to quickly add the diapers or start the breastfeed or sleep timer. Would save a click or two which could be super helpful 😃

I’ve been using this app for about 4 months now and I love it. I do however can not stand the fact that you have to pay a subscription to compare your babies feedings, growth, nap times, and really anything to glow babies, and this is why- Parenting is already so difficult especially if you have multiples or more than one child you’re caring for, we’re constantly stressed about if they got enough to eat or if they’re still hungry or if they’re teething early, or running a fever-we shouldn’t be worried if they’re up to par for their age, so I think we should be able to compare for free. What more could a parent ask for to literally have it all in one app? I also love the community part of this app. It’s nice to know you can talk about more than just babies sometimes and the community in this app and people you follow are so friendly. There aren’t just moms on this app too so I love the fact that it gets dads involved. I love how you can enter notes on loggings, I usually put “gas drops” in them or “ate 28oz in total” for his last feeding just so I can compare for myself to make sure he’s getting enough formula. For parents of babies who struggle to gain or keep weight, this is an important feature that’s just not available for parents who can’t afford to pay for an app. But all in all it’s a great app(from the free side). Surely in the future, the developers of this app will take it easy on customers during an inflation of literally everything.