Feeding & Nappy Log

A Printable Feeding and Nappy Log for the First Few Months

Create a free printable feeding and nappy log to track every feed and every change during the blurry early weeks of life with a newborn.

Each page gives you a row-per-event layout with columns for date, time, feed type, volume, wet and dirty tick boxes and a short notes column. Download a clean PDF in A4 or US Letter, print as many sheets as you need, and clip them to a clipboard or the back of a cupboard door.

This is a calm, practical sheet designed for sleep-deprived new parents — not a branded app, not a spreadsheet, just one page per day that anyone in the house can pick up and fill in.

Why use a paper feeding and nappy log?

The first twelve weeks with a baby are a fog of feeds, changes and short naps. Writing it down on paper makes patterns visible and takes the pressure off your memory. Use the log for:

• tracking breast, bottle and expressed feeds in one place
• counting wet and dirty nappies across the day
• handing over to a partner, grandparent or night nurse
• showing a health visitor or paediatrician at appointments
• spotting early signs of reflux, cluster feeds or dehydration
• reassuring yourself that feeds really are happening

A pen-and-paper log works when your phone is charging, when your hands are full, and when the person watching the baby is not you.

What you can customise

The tool keeps the options small on purpose so you can print in under a minute:

• Page title — useful if you want the baby's name in the header
• Row count — between 12 and 20 rows per sheet
• Paper size — A4 or US Letter
• Date strip at the top of every sheet
• Columns: Time, Feed type, Volume (ml or oz), Wet, Dirty, Notes

Sixteen rows is the default and covers a busy newborn day without shrinking the handwriting space. Drop to twelve rows if you have large handwriting, or push to twenty if you want a full 24 hours on one page.

Notes and limitations

• The log is a recording sheet, not medical advice — always follow guidance from your midwife, health visitor or paediatrician.
• Volume columns work for bottle and expressed feeds; leave them blank for breastfeeds and note the side in the Notes column if useful.
• Tick boxes for wet and dirty are deliberately separate so a single change can tick both.
• Printed output can vary slightly by printer and browser margin settings — printing at 100% scale is recommended.

Who this log is for

The sheet is written for anyone looking after a young baby.

New parents

Keep one clipboard in the main feeding spot and tick as you go — no scrolling, no unlocking, no typing.

Partners and co-parents

Shared paper gives both parents the same picture of the day without having to ask "when was the last feed?".

Grandparents and night carers

Hand over a half-filled sheet at the start of a shift and you do not have to narrate the last four hours.

Health visitors and paediatricians

A couple of completed sheets give clinicians a clear, fast answer to the questions they ask at every check-in.

How to use the log

1. Open the tool and set the page title — the baby's name works well.
2. Pick your row count (12 to 20).
3. Choose A4 or US Letter.
4. Click Generate and preview the sample page.
5. Download the PDF and print a week's worth at once.
6. Clip a sheet to a clipboard and keep a pen tethered to it.
7. At each feed or change, note the time, tick the relevant boxes, and jot anything unusual in Notes.

Worked example

Imagine a Tuesday with a three-week-old. You might fill in a row at 02:40 for a breastfeed with no volume, ticking neither nappy box. The next row at 03:05 shows a nappy change with both Wet and Dirty ticked. At 05:20 you add a 60 ml bottle of expressed milk and tick Wet. By the end of the day you can glance down the sheet and count eight feeds and six wet nappies without doing any mental arithmetic.

That is exactly the kind of summary a health visitor wants to see, and it took ten seconds per entry to produce.

Methodology

Every PDF is rendered through the shared PrintablesWorld template, so the branded header, page number and subtle watermark are the same as every other planner on the site. The log itself is a simple table: a date strip, six labelled columns and your chosen number of rows, sized so the page prints cleanly at 100% scale with no edge-cropping on standard home printers.

Tips for the early weeks

• Start a fresh sheet at midnight so each page is one calendar day.
• Use short codes in the Feed type column (B, BM, F, S) to save writing time.
• Keep one pen permanently clipped to the board — hunting for a pen at 3am is not fun.
• Don't backfill from memory — leave a row blank if you missed it rather than guessing.
• File completed sheets in a plastic wallet so you can pull them out at appointments.

Designed for A4 and US Letter printing

The log supports both A4 and US Letter so it fits whatever paper your printer is loaded with. Columns stay aligned on either size and the tick boxes stay square, which matters more than it sounds when you are ticking at speed with one hand.

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