Guides
Answers to the things parents look up at 3am
Wake windows, nap schedules, growth charts, solids, potty training and screen time — written to be read quickly, with the answer at the top and the sources at the bottom. General information, never a substitute for your paediatrician.
Sleep
All sleep guides →Baby wake windows by age, explained
How long babies can comfortably stay awake between sleeps, from newborn to three years — a chart by age, how many naps go with each stage, and the signs you have overshot.
12 min readNap schedule by age: how many naps, and when
How many naps babies need at each age, sample daily schedules from newborn to preschool, how to tell a nap transition has started, and how to survive one.
15 min readSleep regressions by age, and how long each one lasts
What causes the 4-month, 8-month, 12-month and 18-month sleep regressions, how long they typically last, and what actually helps while you wait one out.
13 min readBuilding a bedtime routine that actually works
What makes a bedtime routine effective, how long it should be at each age, the order that works, and the common mistakes that keep a routine from sticking.
7 min readWhy babies wake at night, by age
Night waking is normal at every age under two — what changes is the reason. A table by age, how to tell hunger from habit from a matured sleep cycle, and the things that genuinely reduce it.
8 min readHow much sleep does a toddler need? The ranges, by age
What the AAP and the NHS each say about total sleep for one to five year olds, why their ranges differ, how night sleep and naps add up, and the signs that matter more than the number.
11 min readSafe sleep: what actually reduces the risk of SIDS
What the AAP and the NHS agree on about safe infant sleep — back sleeping, a separate flat surface in your room, an empty cot, and the sofa rule that catches most exhausted parents out.
12 min readSleep training: what the guidance actually supports
The AAP publishes two principles and an age, and endorses no named method. What that means for Ferber, chair, pick-up-put-down and the rest, what to fix before trying any of them, and when a method is the wrong tool entirely.
11 min read
Feeding
All feeding guides →Feeding schedule by age, from newborn to toddler
How often babies feed at each age, how much, when solids join the picture, and how milk and meals trade places across the first two years.
10 min readStarting solids: readiness, first foods and what to skip
When babies are usually ready for solid food, the readiness signs that matter more than the date, how textures progress, and the foods to avoid in the first year.
6 min readBaby-led weaning or purées: what actually differs
What baby-led weaning and spoon-feeding actually involve, what the evidence does and does not show, how gagging differs from choking, and why most families end up doing both.
11 min readIntroducing allergens: when to start and what to offer
Why delaying allergenic foods is no longer the advice, when to introduce peanut and egg, the full list the NHS names, how to serve each one safely, and the difference between a mild reaction and an emergency.
12 min readCow’s milk: when to switch, how much, and what kind
Why cow’s milk waits until twelve months as a drink but can go in food from six, how much a toddler actually needs, which milk to buy, why too much causes its own problem, and how the bottle fits into it.
11 min readNight feeds: when they stop being needed, and how to drop one
What the AAP and NHS actually publish about night feeding — which is less than most articles claim — the one age that exists and who it applies to, how to tell a need from a habit, and how to drop a feed without a fight.
9 min readFussy eating: why it happens and what actually works
Why fussy eating peaks in the toddler years, how many tastings a new food really needs, the division of responsibility that fixes most mealtimes, what backfires, and the signs that this is more than fussiness.
11 min readHow much milk does a baby need, by age
Bottle amounts by age in ounces and millilitres, why breastfed babies are not measured this way, what changes when solids start, and the signs that matter more than the number on the bottle.
8 min read
Parenting tips
All parenting tips guides →Colic and the witching hour: what helps, and what to rule out
What counts as colic, why crying peaks at six weeks and fades by three to four months, why the evening is the worst of it, what genuinely helps, and the signs that mean this is not colic.
11 min readScreen time by age, and why the limit is the least useful part
What the WHO and paediatric guidance actually say about screen time from infancy to twelve, and why what a child watches and who is with them matters more than the number of minutes.
5 min readToddler tantrums: what actually helps
Why tantrums happen, what to do during one, the four causes behind most of them, how to head them off, and when they are worth mentioning to a doctor.
8 min readSeparation anxiety by age, and what actually helps
When separation anxiety starts, when it peaks, why it appears exactly when a baby gets more secure rather than less, why sneaking out backfires, and how to make drop-offs shorter.
7 min read
Growth
All growth guides →How to read your child’s growth percentiles
What a growth percentile actually means, why the WHO charts are used for under-twos, and why the shape of the curve matters far more than the number.
8 min readBaby weight gain by age: what is normal
Typical weight gain from newborn to two years, why the first two weeks look alarming, how often to weigh, and the patterns that are worth raising with a professional.
8 min readBaby teething chart: when each tooth arrives
The order baby teeth come through and the age range for each, what teething genuinely causes, what it does not, what helps, and the products to avoid.
7 min read
Developmental leaps
All developmental leaps guides →Growth spurts vs developmental leaps: how to tell them apart
A growth spurt is the body growing; a developmental leap is the brain reorganising. They look similar from the outside, last different lengths, and need different responses.
7 min readDevelopmental milestones by age, and what a delay really means
What most children do by each age across movement, language, social and thinking skills, why the ranges are so wide, and the specific signs that are worth raising early.
9 min readSpeech milestones by age, from first sounds to sentences
What to expect from cooing to full sentences, how much of it strangers should understand at each age, why bilingual children are not delayed, and the signs that warrant an assessment rather than waiting.
8 min readTummy time: how much, from when, and what to do when they hate it
How much tummy time a baby needs at each age, what the AAP and NHS actually say, why it is a daily total rather than a session, what counts, and what to do with a baby who screams the moment they go down.
11 min readRolling, sitting and crawling: what happens when
The AAP’s own dates for the three big motor skills of the first year, the order they usually arrive in, the one date worth acting on, why some babies never crawl at all, and the reading myth that will not die.
11 min read
Potty training
All potty training guides →Potty training readiness: the signs that actually matter
The physical, cognitive and behavioural signs a child is ready to potty train, why age is the weakest indicator, and what to do when it stalls.
7 min readNight dryness and bedwetting: what actually works
Why staying dry overnight cannot be trained the way daytime can, when most children get there, what genuinely helps, and the point at which bedwetting is worth treating.
7 min readPotty training regression: why it happens and what to do
Why a reliably dry child starts having accidents again, the triggers that cause it, the constipation cause almost everyone misses, and a week-by-week plan that does not turn it into a battle.
7 min read
AI parenting
All ai parenting guides →How AI predicts your baby’s next nap
What a sleep prediction is actually calculating, why it uses the median of your own logs rather than an age chart, how much history it needs, and the things it cannot do.
8 min readCan you trust AI for parenting advice?
What an AI assistant is genuinely useful for at 2am, where it is unreliable, the questions never to ask one, and what happens to what you type.
8 min readWhat happens to your child’s data in a parenting app
The three questions that decide whether a tracking app is safe to use, where the real answers live, the difference between a calculation on your phone and a request to an AI model, and how Pixy answers each one.
7 min read
Choosing an app
All choosing an app guides →How to choose a baby tracker app
The criteria that actually matter when picking a baby tracking app — how long it stays useful, what sits behind the paywall, what happens to your data — and an honest note on where Pixy fits.
6 min readWhich baby tracker should you use? A guide by situation
Matching real situations to the right baby tracking app — two parents logging, a child past toddlerhood, no signal, twins, a non-English household — and the cases where Pixy is the wrong choice.
8 min readWhen to stop using a baby tracker
The natural stopping points by age, what is still worth logging after one, the difference between outgrowing tracking and outgrowing the app, and how to stop without losing the part that was useful.
6 min read
How these guides are written
They are written and edited by the team that builds Pixy. They are not written by clinicians and we do not claim medical review — where a guide makes a health claim, it is checked against published guidance from the WHO, CDC, AAP or NHS, and those pages are linked at the foot of the article so you can read the original rather than take our word for it.
Every guide opens with a direct answer, keeps typical ranges as ranges rather than targets, and says explicitly when something should go to a paediatrician instead. Where a guide discusses Pixy, the claims are limited to what can be verified against the App Store and Google Play listings — and the guides on choosing an app state where Pixy is the wrong choice, because a page that recommends itself for everything is not worth reading.
Guides are revised when the underlying guidance changes; the revision date is shown on any article that has been updated. If you find something wrong, tell us at support@pixykid.com and we will correct it.