Huckleberry: Baby & Child 4+

Truly a life changer

I’m a first time mum and for the most part, our baby slept well until he his 6 weeks old and literally started fighting all his day naps. He was constantly crying, tired but would never sleep longer than 20 minutes unless I was holding him the entire time. We were tired parents, constantly holding him, wearing him or pushing him in his pram to try get him to sleep and nothing worked he was always upset. He’d end up settling for the night at 10pm sometimes later and me and my fiancé never got time alone. This app was a last resort before giving in to an expensive sleep program and literally from day one, it’s worked.
I can’t believe how easy it was but I started recording his sleep and following the suggestion as to when I should settle him for his nap - and it works wonders. I’ve learnt about my baby’s awake times and know his sleepy cues - it’s changed everything. He now naps peacefully during the day in his own crib, wakes up happy and plays happily instead of crying all the time and he consistently settled for the night at 8pm without any problems so me and my fiancé finally get some time to ourselves! This app has given us a happy, well rested baby which results in happy less stressed out parents! Can’t recommend it enough.

So many bugs! Constant lagging - not fixed after so many weeks.

This is a good app in terms of most of the features & ease of use, but unfortunately, after a few weeks of use, the app has been unbelievably slow. The app started lagging ridiculously - especially if you need to ‘edit’ an entry - it can take several minutes for the app to respond after tapping on edit. This is happening on both my phone & my husband’s phone, so it’s not an issue with the phones & we’ve tested on various wifi, same issue. We close down the app & reopen regularly - issue still persist. We’ve been hoping that the issue resolves itself and I’ve also contacted technical support, they have responded in a timely manner but have never provided any answers & just keep saying they don’t know when the issues will be fixed but their tech team are looking into it. We’ve paid an annual subscription fee to use this app - really is unacceptable for a paid for app to work this poorly. I’m sure all parents would agree that in the middle of the night, when doing a feed or change etc at 4am, the last thing we need is an app that doesn’t respond. We’ve persevered with the app for 10 weeks now (issues started around week 5), as we had hoped issues will be resolved - if it wasn’t for all the data we have already logged since day 1 of our baby’s birth, we would have demanded for a subscription refund & switched over to a different app. So disappointing.

Not to over-exaggerate, but it’s lifechanging

Firstly, the free part of this app is excellent for tracking naps and letting you know when baby is likely to need a nap. Our baby isn’t really one for yawning and will go from being fine to cranky in a matter of minutes so we were often leaving him to get overtired.

We decided to purchase a subscription because our 3 month (nearly 4 month) old would only feed to sleep and only nap on me after feeding. This meant that as his sleep cycles developed he was waking frequently during the night and wanting to comfort feed. We’d tried the put baby down awake but drowsy thing but our baby never really seemed to be drowsy and would get so upset so we gave up. With our comprehensive plan we could indicate that we would prefer a gradual approach rather than lots of crying and we started our plan last Monday to gradually change his sleep associations at night. 10 nights later and we put baby down last night awake and he settled himself, and did not need to be picked up all night! We can’t believe it- looking forward to working on naps next! Thank you so much huckleberry!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for this review, and we're celebrating with you! Congratulations on this incredible progress! We especially appreciate your story because it dispels a couple of common myths: that babies will just sleep when they want to sleep (not true, unfortunately), and that sleep training means having to cry it out (also not true--we can improve sleep in a gentle way). Thank you for sharing!