New Baby Planner & Log

New Baby Planner & Log — Bags, the first weeks, and a log that is a record — not a report card.

A calm, practical planner for the first year, written by somebody who assumes you already have enough people telling you what to do. 24 printable A4 pages cover 3 hospital bag lists, a birth preferences page framed as preferences rather than a plan, a coming-home checklist, full-day and night logs, feeding and sleep notes, a record page for appointments and immunisations, a growth record, a who-does-what-at-3am page, a support list for solo parents, visitor scripts, a page about how you are doing, and memory pages for the firsts. There is no feeding schedule in it, no sleep method, no milestone timings and no interpretation of any measurement — every baby is different, and a log is a record, not a report card. Anything clinical points you back to your doctor, midwife or health visitor.

What's inside

• PRINTABLE PLANNER (PDF, A4): 24 pages across 23 sections — print any page as often as you need it
• A read-this-first page and an every-baby-is-different page: a log is a record, not a report card, and if you are worried about feeding, weight, breathing or your own mood you call your doctor, midwife or health visitor today
• 3 hospital bag lists — for the person giving birth, for the baby, and for the partner or support person — 42 items in total, with a line saying your hospital list is the one that counts
• Birth preferences page written as preferences to discuss, not a plan, with no judgement attached to any of them
• Coming-home checklist, a full-day daily log to print one per day, and a separate night log with a who-got-up column
• Feeding notes for every kind of feeding, explicitly non-judgemental and with no schedule anywhere; sleep notes with no method advocated and a pointer to current local guidance
• Appointment and immunisation RECORD page — your clinic gives you the schedule, this is where you write down what was actually given, when and where
• Growth record with no charts, no percentile or centile lines and no interpretation — you write what the clinic tells you
• Who-does-what-at-three-in-the-morning page for two-carer households, and a separate support list for solo parents and anyone flying short-handed
• Visitors and boundaries page with 8 ready-made scripts for saying not today, kindly
• A page about how the parent is doing, saying plainly that low mood after a birth is common, treatable and worth telling a professional about
• Memory pages: 14 firsts to fill in, 4 photograph frames and a letter to the baby
• DAILY LOG SPREADSHEET (XLSX): a worked example week, with live averages that describe what you wrote down — never a target and never a score — plus an appointments sheet
• No medical advice anywhere: no feeding schedule, no sleep-training method, no milestone timings, no weight interpretation and no immunisation schedule

How it works

The PDF guide walks you through step by step, with ready-to-use wording you can adapt. The XLSX tracker comes pre-filled with example data — fill the gold cells and every total and status updates automatically.

Specifications

• Format: PDF guide + XLSX (live formulas) + read-me
• Works in: Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Excel, Google Sheets
• License: full rights — use, edit, rebrand & resell
• Updates: free for life

Full rights

Sold with full rights: use it personally or with clients, edit anything, and even rebrand and resell it — keep 100% of the income, no attribution required. Customise before reselling (marketplaces reject identical duplicates).

Please note

Family organisation planners for personal use. Example names, dates and entries are illustrations to adapt to your own family. These pages are a place to keep track of things — they are not medical, legal or psychological advice. Anything involving health, medication, care decisions or legal documents belongs with a doctor, pharmacist, lawyer or other qualified professional. Digital download — delivered instantly, so all sales are final; future updates are free.