Feeding, sleep and development — explained
Free, sourced guides for the first two years: a 989-ingredient food database, 6 development milestone age bands, three free calculators, and editorial guides on breastmilk, sleep and solids. Every claim is cited to public-health guidance and every guide carries the date it was last reviewed. No signup, no paywall.
Food guide
989 ingredients, each with an allergen rating, a choking risk rating and cutting instructions for 6–9, 9–18 and 18+ months.
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Free tools
3 calculators and checks that turn guidance into a number for your baby — milk volume, wake windows, solids readiness.
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Development milestones
6 age groups covering cognitive, language, movement and social-emotional development, based on CDC guidance.
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Written by our editorial team, sourced to public-health guidance, and reviewed on a schedule.
Wake windows vs scheduled naps: which suits your baby
Two ways to plan the same day, neither of which any health authority publishes and neither of which has been tested against the other. How to choose on fit, when age decides it for you, and how to switch without losing a week.
Baby sleep schedules and wake windows: 0–24 months
What a day looks like at every age from birth to two, which numbers come from a health authority and which are conventions somebody invented, and where to go next depending on what is actually going wrong.
Pumping, supply and milk storage: the complete guide
Milk removal drives production — that one principle explains power pumping, stash building, dropping sessions and weaning off the pump. The map to everything else we have written about expressing and storing milk.
Starting solids: the complete guide
Purée or baby-led weaning is the question parents agonise over, and the trial evidence says it barely matters. Choking, allergen timing and what stays off the plate are the decisions that do — here is the map of all of them.
Baby food schedule: 6, 9 and 12 months
How many meals a day at each stage, how textures should move, why babies under one do not need snacks, and where national guidance genuinely differs.
Baby-led weaning vs purées: what the trial actually found
The only randomised trial found no BMI difference, no difference in choking, and one result that contradicts the theory. An honest comparison, including what each approach asks of you.
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How we write these guides
Every guide is written by the Dalo Baby editorial team, cites the guideline bodies it draws on, and carries the date it was last reviewed. Where a claim is contested, we say so.
