We all are constantly hearing (from our screens) that we and our kids need less screen time each day, and that’s not wrong! However, there are a few great apps that are strong resources and tools for both you and your child that will help to make the best of screen time. You’ll feel a little less guilty about being on your phone and sharing your phone with your baby. In this day and age when technology is everywhere, it behooves us to take advantage of it in order to give our child the best chance they can get in this increasingly competitive landscape.
Top Phone Apps For New Parents
Let’s start with the apps for parents. We picked out a few trusted and popular apps that will help to guide, inform, and help parents tackle taking care of their newborns in those crucial early weeks and months.
Huckleberry. Sleep and Schedule Tracking
Huckleberry is an app that helps you find the best nap and bedtime windows for your child based on its incredible “SweetSpot” estimator. It really helps you decode your child’s sleep and wake and feeding patterns as you feed the app more and more information.
It helps with:
- Tracking naps, bedtimes, and wake windows
- Helps with personalized sleep insights
- Can help with troubleshooting early sleep issues
Baby Tracker. Feeding, Diapering, Sleep, and Growth
This is also a baby event tracking app that is a little less focused around sleeping in particular and is more about accumulating all of the data around your baby’s care and rhythms. It is a fantastic way to be able to instantly communicate important things to pediatricians who need to know fairly exact numbers when it comes to feeding amounts, diaper output, and weight.
It helps with:
- Logging breastfeeding and bottle feeding, pumping sessions, diaper changes,
- Tracking sleep patterns and wake windows
- Outputting all of your data in easy-to-read graphs and charts for easy evaluation and data sharing
Educational Apps for Toddlers
Khan Academy Kids. Free, Comprehensive Early Learning Tool
If you’ve heard of Khan Academy, then you will love this app! Many people don’t know that there is a kids version of the well regarded educational app. The app is designed from the ground up by early childhood development experts and includes activities or “games” designed to help improve and strengthen important early development milestones like literacy, counting, shapes, math, and much more.
Sago Mini World. Imaginative, Open-Ended Play
This is a set of mini-games that are kid friendly and ad free, designed to encourage creativity and exploration through open-ended play. It teaches valuable problem solving skills and fosters a sense of curiosity and rewards exploration. As a mercy to parents, it is also very calm and does not have a lot of loud noises or songs.
Before You Go
We hope that this blog about some useful and educational phone apps was helpful to you. If your little one is still fussy after feeds, struggling to settle, or having trouble sleeping, we’re here to support you.
From sleep consulting to in-home 24/7sleep training and overnight newborn care or in-home newborn care services, we offer personalized guidance to help your little one (and you!) get the rest you need.
Have questions? Let’s Chat — we’d love to help your family rest easier.
Katie B.
Expertise You Need:
- Certified Master Pediatric Sleep Consultant
- Certified Advanced Newborn Care Specialist (2016-2022)
- Board Certified Holistic Healthcare Practitioner
- 16 years professional childcare experience
- Certified Postpartum Doula (2015-2022)
- Travel & ROTA Nanny
Katie has over 16 years experience working with children of all ages. As a Pediatric Sleep Consultant and Newborn Care Specialist, she has professionally supported families and babies worldwide over the last 10 years. Her mission is to help the entire family unit get better sleep, utilizing a holistic approach that supports the baby or child’s natural biologic drive to sleep. She has personally served hundreds of families, holds 20,000+ hours exclusively caring for infants & babies and has 69+ 5-⭐️ Google reviews.
