Description
It combines useful record keeping functions with an extended section of knowledge and
advice taken from many years of working with families with young children.
The author's principal work as a medical doctor relates to assisting the
development of optimal growth and sleep in children. The knowledge from this
experience is provided through this app.
Major functions include:
• Tracking nursing, feeding, and sleeping schedules of newborns
• Tracking a baby's development and milestones
• Guidelines to assist parents to raise happy, healthy children who sleep well.
The Babysleep Doctor 'Your Baby' app includes:
• Timers for tracking nursing, sleeping, and feeding schedules
• Capability to track multiple children
• Ability to record weight, length, and head circumference data and compare with
normal percentile data
• Summaries of feeding quantities and sleep times from day-to-day
• Function to record child health issues and medications
• Information sections with guidance on how to ease babies into a healthy sleeping
pattern.
The information sections have the principal objective of assisting flourishing families with children who sleep, feed and grow optimally.
Feeding
• to allow you to feed successfully
• to help you succeed if you are breast feeding
• to guide if you are bottle feeding
• to assist if the baby is both breast and bottle feeding
• to guide about when and how to start solids.
Growth
• To achieve optimal growth for your baby.
Sleep
• To guide you in such a way that your baby sleeps well as soon as possible.
• As a general guide The Babysleep Doctor 'Your Baby' app aims to assist you achieve the following for your
child:
• 18-21 hrs of sleep per day from birth
• approximately one 6 hour block of sleep at night by 6 week
• 8 hours as a block by 8 weeks
• 12 hours sleep at night by about 12 weeks of age. (This is likely to
include one overnight feed.)
• As a general guide The Babysleep Doctor 'Your Baby' app aims to assist you achieve the following;
• 6 hours sleep as a block by the time the baby is 6 weeks old
• 8 hours sleep as a block by the time the baby is 8 weeks old
• and by the time that the baby is 12 weeks old for the parents to have an
evening for each other while the baby sleeps and then a full nights sleep
for you.
Child's Health
• Clearly our children are our highest priority and The Babysleep Doctor 'Your Baby' app is designed to
achieve the best possible health outcomes not only for the child as a baby but for
years to come.
• There is increasingly robust scientific evidence that good sleep and optimal
nutrition in the early months of life have a large impact on long term illnesses
such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Healthy relationships.
• The whole family and the newborn child's emotional well being are built upon
the bedrock of the relationship between the parents.
• By achieving good nutrition, good sleep and appropriate routines for the baby all
relationships in the family are stronger.
• If we care for those relationships the emotional environment around the child is
stronger.
• Parenting is a gift. The Babysleep Doctor 'Your Baby' app is designed to be with you through the journey of
being a great parent.
