Editorial Policy

Who writes these guides

Every guide and article is published by the Dalo Baby editorial team, and the team is answerable for it.

Our guides are drafted with the help of AI. Every one is then reviewed by a person against the sources it cites before it is published — a person decides what goes live, checks the claims against the linked guidance, and owns any correction. We would rather tell you that plainly than let you find out.

We publish under the organisation's name rather than inventing a byline. When a guide has been reviewed by a named, credentialed professional — an IBCLC, a registered dietitian, a paediatrician — that person is named on the page. If no name appears, no such review has taken place, and the guide should be read as well-sourced general information rather than clinical advice.

We do not use invented author personas, and we do not attach credentials to anyone who does not hold them.

Where the information comes from

We build guides from published guidance by public health bodies and from peer-reviewed research. The bodies we cite most are the American Academy of Pediatrics and its journal Pediatrics, the UK National Health Service and the Lullaby Trust, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Alongside those we cite the national authority for each language we publish in: Sundhedsstyrelsen in Denmark, Santé publique France and ameli.fr in France, and the Asociación Española de Pediatría in Spain. Where those bodies disagree with the international guidance — and on infant feeding and sleep they sometimes do — the version you read is the one that applies where you live.

Every guide lists its sources at the end, with the publisher, the year and a direct link to the original. If you want to check us, you should be able to in one click.

Where the evidence is thin, contested or still emerging, we say so in the text instead of picking the more confident-sounding answer.

How we review and update

Every guide carries the date it was published and the date it was last reviewed. Both are visible on the page, not buried in metadata.

We revisit every guide at least once every twelve months, and sooner when the underlying guidance changes. Internally a guide is flagged for attention once it has gone six months without review, so the twelve-month commitment has a margin rather than a deadline we discover too late.

When we correct something material, we update the guide and its review date rather than quietly editing the text.

What we will not do

We do not publish step-by-step home protocols for allergen reintroduction — the milk ladder, the egg ladder and their equivalents. We explain what those protocols are and why they exist, and we say clearly that they belong under allergist supervision. That is a deliberate limit, not an omission.

We present sleep training methods neutrally: how a method works, what the evidence does and does not show, and who it tends to suit. We never suggest that any method is required, or that a family who does not use one is doing something wrong.

We never state a competitor's price, limit or feature from memory. Every such claim on this site links to the page we read it from and carries the date we read it.

Localisation, not translation

We publish in English, Spanish, French and Danish. A guide is only listed as available in a language once it has genuinely been localised — which means more than translated prose.

Safe sleep, allergen introduction and milk storage guidance genuinely differ between countries. A localised guide cites the authority that applies where the reader lives, uses the units they measure in, and reflects the framing their health service uses. Where two authorities disagree, we say so and give both rather than quietly picking one.

Our apps, and how we disclose them

Dalo Baby makes three apps: Dalo Milk Stash, Dalo Solids and Dalo Sleep. Our guides link to them where they are genuinely relevant. The Learn section itself is free to read, with no signup and no paywall.

When a guide compares apps, including ours, it says plainly at the top that we make one of them. It also names what competing apps do better than ours — a comparison our own product wins on every line is marketing, not a comparison.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, out of date or misleading, tell us through our contact page and we will check it. Corrections that change the substance of a guide are made in the guide itself and reflected in its review date.

This is not medical advice

These guides are general information about healthy, full-term babies. They do not replace advice from your paediatrician, health visitor, midwife, lactation consultant or dietitian, who know your baby. If you are worried about your baby's feeding, growth, breathing or sleep, contact a health professional.