Kidlee is like a Twitterfied version of a baby book. It gives you an outlet for storing short (140 characters) posts about your children. Each of your children gets a profile and writing about them is as simple as tapping on their name, typing and then tapping save. Posts accrue in the app and you [...]

Health Album is a free app for keeping track of health information and events in your child’s life. The idea is to have it all on hand in one central location where you and your doctor will have quick access to needed details. Here are some of the things you can track in Health Album. [...]

Attention expectant mothers! Today I have an app that will let you use your iPhone to hear your baby’s heartbeat. It works when you are in your 3rd trimester and uses the built in microphone to catch the heartbeat. The beat can then be recorded and shared with others through email. The My Baby’s Beat [...]

Vinny vs the Curse of the Incas – The star of this app is Vinny, a Private Investigator who also happens to be an elephant with amnesia. Vinny is out to beat the Curse of the Incas and he’ll be traveling from San Francisco to the jungles of Peru. There are six memory challenges that [...]

Growth is a straightforward app that will track your child’s changing measurements as they grow through adolescence. It allows you to enter and store information for height, weight and head circumference. Using those numbers the app can also calculate and track your child’s BMI. Growth will then take those measurements and plot them on a [...]

Have you ever had to referee a “discussion” over who’s turn it is with the computer or a video game? At my house we have conversations all the time and they generally include something along the lines of “they’ve been playing for an hour already mom!”. Which isn’t true but it’s funny how children lose [...]

Allowance is an app that was developed by a mom who found herself in need of a better way to track her children’s allowance. This is a practical app that’s been created by a parent for other parents. My kind of app!

Where was Baby Shusher 18 months ago when my Miss J was a two month old? That was just about the time when we were getting her feeding issues figured out but her Acid Reflux was still atrocious and there was a whole lot of crying going on in our house. From her and me [...]

Nearly a year ago I reviewed Aimee’s Babies Baby Massage, an app that provided instructions and videos for parents interested in learning massage for their infants. Aimee Ketchum is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and a Certified Instructor of Baby’s First Massage. Now Aimee’s Babies is back with BabyStretch, an exercise app for you and your [...]

I’ve been seeing quite a few “baby book” apps lately and I’m quickly realizing that there’s really no excuse for not putting something together for my Miss J. Sure she’ll be two in a few months but better late than never right? Because the iPhone and iPad app developers have been putting out great apps [...]