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Well Child App

An app to track your baby or infant's health progress and set reminders for their immunsations, health checks and appointments.

Well Child App	By Silvereye Labs
	Features Reminders for immunisations and appointments. Education and information. Links and access to health contacts. Information about health emergencies and how to keep your child safe and healthy. Get the app from (external link) (external link) (external link)
Country of origin	New Zealand
Clinical review	Read a clinical review of this app.
Security and privacy	Does the app: collect medical information? No require a login? No have password protection? No have a privacy policy? Yes require internet access? Yes The app clearly states that it does not collect or save any personal information or data. All information used in the app is stores on each individual device and the responsibility is on the user to keep their data secure. Read more about things you can do to improve your safety and security when using apps.
Cost	Free
Advertisements	This app contains no ads.

What does the app do?

The Well Child app app helps New Zealand parents create a health record for their child (0–5 years). By entering your child's date of birth, the app uses the device calendar to automatically set reminders for important dates like Well Child check-ups and immunisations. It also allows you to record your child's growth details, eg, their height and weight. The app also includes a large amount of health information from various New Zealand sources. Examples of the features in the app are:

Immunisation: Information on the National Immunisation Schedule, your child's immunisation schedule based on their age and information on immunisation.
First aid: Information on how to deal with common first aid and emergency situations in babies and children such as CPR, choking, burns, asthma, meningitis, poisoning, meningitis, pneumonia, drowning, diarrhoea and vomiting, etc
Child assessment: Details of what to expect at the various assessments during your infant's development such as in the first week, 4–6 weeks, 8–10 weeks, 3–4 months, up until the B4 school check.
Child safety: Handy tips on how to keep your toddler safe, eg, car safety, infant mental health, infectious diseases, how to stay safe at home.
Moving and playing: Tips on the kinds of physical activity and play babies and toddlers need to be healthy, and information on how to manage your child's behaviour.
Learning and development: Includes a range of topics such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, postnatal depression, toilet training, speech and language, etc
Safe sleep: Information on creating a safe sleeping environment for your baby and protecting your baby from SUDI (Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy).
Health eating: Information on how to give your baby and toddler the right nutrition.
Wellbeing: Information on bonding, and getting to know your baby, and information about smoke-free homes.
Sun safety: How to protect your baby and toddler from the sun including information on sunscreen.
Oral health: Tips on how to care for your child's teeth and how to enrol your child in the free oral health service.
Healthy weight: Ways to help your child achieve a healthy weight.

The app is designed to be used alongside the Well Child Tamariki Ora My Health book (also known as the Plunket book). There is also a page with links to useful contacts or health organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand

For a more detailed description of the app, see App website(external link), App store(external link) or Google Play store(external link) and for a detailed review, see Reviews.

PROS	CONS
✔ Large amount of very useful child health information taken from a variety of New Zealand sources. ✔ Height, weight and BMI centile tracking in a graph format. It uses the international WHO data which is what the Well Child book uses (due to there being no NZ specific data). ✔ Track inmunisations and see when they are due. ✔ Digital “phone book” to store contact details for your child’s care team.	✘ The measurement section could be improved: The centile tracking is graphed only, you can’t see the actual values. It doesn’t alert you to any potential problems such as if your child is crossing centiles. You can’t adjust for prematurity. You can’t track head circumference. ✘ There is a notification section, but the page was blank on my 2 test devices. ✘ No ability to export data or save to the cloud.

PROS

CONS

✔ Large amount of very useful child health information taken from a variety of New Zealand sources.

✔ Height, weight and BMI centile tracking in a graph format. It uses the international WHO data which is what the Well Child book uses (due to there being no NZ specific data).

✔ Track inmunisations and see when they are due.

✔ Digital “phone book” to store contact details for your child’s care team.

✘ The measurement section could be improved:

The centile tracking is graphed only, you can’t see the actual values.
It doesn’t alert you to any potential problems such as if your child is crossing centiles.
You can’t adjust for prematurity.
You can’t track head circumference.

✘ There is a notification section, but the page was blank on my 2 test devices.

✘ No ability to export data or save to the cloud.

Review details

Date of review: September 2023
Platform reviewed: Apple
App version: 2.1.1

Well Child App

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