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Baby Log Printable

A whole day of sleep, feeds, nappies and notes on a single sheet, built to your household rather than handed to you fixed. Choose the columns, the units and how many rows fit, watch the paper redraw, then print it exactly as you see it.

No account, no email, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Build the sheet
Layout

A row for every hour, already labelled. You mark what happened rather than writing the time twice.

The day
Hours covered
Twelve is the daycare sheet: the waking day, bigger boxes, no night band.
Rows on the sheet
16
Fewer rows, taller boxes. Ten is roomy; twenty-six is a full newborn day and still writable.
Feeding

Breast gets a left, a right and a minutes box; the bottle gets an amount. Nothing here converts one into the other, because nothing honestly can.

Columns
On the paper

Paper records what happened. It does not estimate anything. Nothing on this sheet is worked out for you, and that is the point: the value is in the entries you make and in reading four or five days back to back. Three consecutive sheets will tell you more about your own baby’s rhythm than any by-age table on the internet, including the ones on this site — those are ranges, and every range here is wide because babies vary that much.

Two things on it are worth watching rather than just recording. Nappies and feeds read together are the signal the NHS and the American Academy of Pediatrics both point at: around six wet nappies a day from a few days after birth, at least one dirty one a day in the early weeks, and at least four wet ones a day treated as generally reassuring. If the count drops well below that, if weight gain stalls, or if your baby is hard to rouse for feeds, that is a call to your pediatrician or health visitor rather than another row on a sheet.

Safe sleep, however the night goes. Every sleep you write down happened the same way: on their back, on a firm flat surface, in a cot clear of blankets, pillows, bumpers and soft toys, in your room for at least the first six months. Nothing weighted goes on or over a sleeping baby. This sheet is a record and nothing more — it is not medical advice, it cannot see your baby, and a worry about her is a conversation with a clinician rather than a pattern in a grid.

How this is worked out

  1. Nothing on this page is worked out for you, and that is the whole design. A log sheet is a container: the value is in the entries you make on it and in reading four or five of them back in a row, not in anything a web page could calculate. There is no arithmetic here beyond counting rows.
  2. The sheet is drawn at true page size — 210 by 297 millimetres for A4, 216 by 279 for US Letter — with its own margin baked in. On screen it is the same object scaled down to fit the column; the printer gets it untouched. What you see is the file you get, which is why the paper changes shape the moment you change a control.
  3. Two layouts, and they suit different weeks. "By the clock" prints a row for every hour from the start of your day, so the sheet is already anchored and you only mark what happened; "Blank lines" prints empty time rows you fill in yourself, which is what most of this genre offers and what suits a day with no shape yet. The clock layout starts in the morning by default so that one night sits on one page instead of being split across two sheets.
  4. The columns are yours. Sleep, feeds, nappies and notes can each be switched off, the feed columns change shape depending on whether you are breastfeeding, bottle feeding or both, and bottles are labelled in millilitres or ounces because a sheet in the wrong unit gets thrown away. Every heading is short enough to read at a glance and every box is at least five millimetres tall, which is the smallest thing a tired adult can reliably write inside.
  5. The night hours are shaded on the clock layout. It is a small thing and it is the reason this sheet exists: the entries that are hardest to remember the next morning are the ones made in the dark, and a band of grey down the page tells you at a glance how the night actually ran. The shading is a light tint that a black-and-white printer still renders, and nothing on the sheet depends on colour to be readable.
Questions

The short answers

Four things, and everything else is optional: when she slept and for how long, when and how much she fed, wet and dirty nappies, and a line of notes for anything that was different. That set is not arbitrary — nappies and feeds together are the signal the NHS and the American Academy of Pediatrics both point at when the question is whether a baby is getting enough, and sleep and notes are what turn a pile of days into a pattern you can see. Medicines, temperature, tummy time and mood are all worth a column if you want one; they are not worth losing the space if you do not.
Long enough to see something, which is usually shorter than people expect. Three or four consecutive days will show you the rhythm your baby already has, which is far more useful than any by-age table on the internet, this site included. After that, most families keep logging through the first weeks and then drop to logging only when something changes — a rough patch, a new nap pattern, a stretch where you want to check the feeds against what is coming out the other end. There is no prize for a complete set, and a half-filled sheet is not a failure.
Because a night belongs to one page. A sheet that runs midnight to midnight cuts every night in half: the 11pm feed is on yesterday and the 2am feed is on today, and reading a night back means holding two pieces of paper. Starting at seven in the morning — or six, or eight, whichever you set — means one sheet holds one waking day and the night that follows it, which is the unit you actually think in when somebody asks how last night went.
Yes, and it is the same button. Press "Print or save as PDF", then choose Save as PDF as the destination in your browser's print dialog and set margins to None — the margin is already drawn into the sheet, so letting the browser add another one is what shrinks it and pushes a second blank page out. Turn on background graphics if the night shading comes out white. The file is generated on your own device; nothing is uploaded and no email address is asked for.
Your layout, columns, units and row count are saved in this browser under one key, so the sheet opens the way you left it when you come back to print another one. There is no account and no server: nothing you set is sent anywhere, and the button under the controls deletes the lot. A private window forgets it on its own.
For some of it, honestly yes. Paper works when the phone is charging in another room, it works with one hand and a pencil, anybody in the house can read it without being invited to anything, and it never asks you to log in at 3am. What it cannot do is add up a week for you or be in two rooms at once, which is what a shared tracker is for. Plenty of households run both, and there is nothing incoherent about that.

Where this comes from

  1. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). Getting Your Baby to Sleep. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/sleep/Pages/getting-your-baby-to-sleep.aspx
  2. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). How Often and How Much Should Your Baby Eat?. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/feeding-nutrition/Pages/How-Often-and-How-Much-Should-Your-Baby-Eat.aspx
  3. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). Baby's First Days: Bowel Movements and Urination. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/Pages/babys-first-days-bowel-movements-and-urination.aspx
  4. NHS (2024). How to change your baby's nappy. https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/how-to-change-your-babys-nappy/
  5. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2022). How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe: AAP Policy Explained. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/sleep/Pages/A-Parents-Guide-to-Safe-Sleep.aspx
  6. NHS (2025). Reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/

Every link above was opened and read when this page was last updated. Snuggle is not affiliated with any of these organisations and none of them has reviewed this page. Nothing here is medical advice.

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The app this site is for

Snuggle does this with your baby’s own pattern.

This page works from an age band, because an age band is all a web page knows about you. Snuggle starts from the same bands and then blends them with what your baby actually did today — how long she lasted, when she went down, how the last nap ran — and shows on the face of the ring how sure it is. Early estimates say they are early.

It logs sleep, feeds, nappies and growth in one tap on a dim red screen, and every caregiver in the household is on the same timeline in their own account. The arithmetic runs on the phone, on your baby’s own history. There are no AI features in it.

In development for iPhone and Android. Not released yet — when it is, it will be on this site.

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