Hatch Grow

I could rave on and on about this app. As a first time mom, I felt like this covered all of my bases. It was basically my second brain. Especially in the beginning, there is so so much going on and so much to remember. Your body is running on fumes from the late nights with a newborn, and you can’t remember if you changed a diaper 2 hours ago or 5. lol It was so wonderful to look at my app and see how long it has been since a diaper change or feeding or sleep. It really helped me quickly hone in on exactly what my baby needed. It’s almost like a baby translator! lol Okay, I hope the developer’s see this, because if I could recommend any changes/requests it would number 1 be to have a “dark mode” on the app where all the background is black. My baby has been woke up several times by me inputting something in my app while I’m thinking of it. The dark mode would be AMAZING! Also, I would love to track baths. All I would want is to input a bath at 5:30pm and some notes (for example). If there were a food section to input when my baby tries a food for the first time, and also a medication/ temperature reading section for when my baby catches a bug. Having the dark mode and these other sections would make this app unbeatable! It’s still my top app rec to any mom, 1st time or not.

*** Update: they had me log out and back in and the only day of stuff missing was the day I switched phones. Excuse my previous hormonal rage, this app is great👌🏼*** I thought all of the information would be saved on the account, not on the device I was using! I really liked this for tracking, but I updated my phone and I lost all of the data I had been tracking for my son’s 2 mo appt at the end of November😭😭 plus, I lost all of the daily photos I had been using😭😭😭 if I could get them back, I’d do whatever needed to be done, but I honestly don’t know what to do. I’ve tried refreshing everything. It was a great app and super easy to track with, but I can’t believe it wouldn’t actually save my data well. Oh, and all his birth weight and height tracking stats!! Those are gone too and I had already gotten rid of my paperwork for those because I thought this digital platform was solid😭

When I first brought baby home I was worried about how much he was eating so when I found the Hatch scale I was totally excited! The scale works wonderfully batteries last forever and connection is never a problem. The one thing I wish this app had was a complimentary Apple Watch APP, this is the only reason why I’m still using another APP to track baby’s feedings sleep and pumping. Sometimes my phone is on the charger in the other room or we are out and about and it’s just inconvenient to pull out my phone for a feeding. It’s so much easier to just start a timer on my watch. Another thing I wish happened or was customizable somehow it what shortcuts are on the home screen. It’s cool that when I pump or weigh the baby those buttons show up, but I wish that Diapers would disappear since I have never made an entry there. Instead pumping disappears and I make entries in there all day. I wish diapers would at least move down on the list since I never press it. Another thing that is super frustrations is when you make a note, wish we had a little more space to write a little diary of the day, every time I try to add a note it tells me I can only use 255 characters and I spend the next 10 minutes trying to omit any words from my entry that might not be necessary Sometimes I just give up, there is no character count at the bottom, this would solve this problem of wasted time. Over all I love the APP and the scale I’m just waiting for that update that will add the Apple Watch APP. Please please please do it, it would be awesome to stop using that other app.