A week of feeding and sleep log pages, free

One page per day. Feeds, nappies, sleep. Big boxes, few words, nothing to work out — because you will be filling it in at 3am with one hand.

What it is for

Two reasons parents find a paper log useful. The first is that it replaces trying to remember. The second matters more: if feeding is not going well, the single most useful thing you can bring to a pediatrician or an IBCLC is a few days of actual data — how often, how long, how many wet and dirty nappies. It turns “I think he is feeding a lot?” into something a clinician can work with.

It is a tracker, not a target. There are no numbers printed on it that you are supposed to hit, deliberately — babies vary enormously and a page that implies otherwise would do more harm than good.

What is on each page

• Feeds — time, side or bottle, and roughly how long
• Nappies — wet and dirty, which is what gets asked about first
• Sleep — when they went down and when they woke
• A notes line, for anything that felt worth writing down

Using it with a lactation consultant

If you are booking an appointment, bring three days of it. Most consultations start by establishing what is actually happening, and arriving with that already written down means the time gets spent on the problem rather than on reconstructing the week.