Open HouseloopA postpartum planner that tracks the parent, not just the baby
A postpartum planner helps a recovering parent keep up with their own water, meals, medication, pumping, and rest instead of only tracking the baby. Houseloop parent recovery, part of the Plus plan, logs all of that in the same app as the baby, and its protect my nap button hands the baby to your partner for two hours so you can actually sleep. It works because both parents share one account, so the load is visible and split.
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Track your recovery, not only the baby
Log your own water, meals, meds, pumping sessions, and rest alongside the baby log. Parent recovery is a Plus feature. In the fog of the fourth trimester, the app remembers whether you ate and whether you took your afternoon dose so you do not have to.
Protect my nap hands the baby off
Tap protect my nap and Houseloop hands the baby to your partner for two hours. The on-duty flag flips to them, their feed reminders start, and yours go quiet so you can sleep without listening for the next cry.
Medication and pumping on a schedule
Set reminders for pain medication, iron, or antibiotics so doses are not missed during broken sleep, and log each pumping session so you and your partner can both see when you last pumped and how the supply is holding up.
The load is visible to both of you
Because both parents share one account, your recovery is not invisible work. Your partner can see that you are running on no sleep and no lunch, which makes it far easier to actually pick up the slack.
Why should a postpartum planner track the parent and not just the baby?
Most baby apps track feeds, diapers, and naps and stop there, which quietly treats the recovering parent as invisible infrastructure. But the person who just gave birth is also healing, medicated, often pumping, and chronically short on sleep and food. Those things need tracking too, and when nobody logs them they are the first to slip.
Houseloop parent recovery, a Plus feature, puts the parent in the same log as the baby. You can record your water, meals, meds, pumping, and rest right next to the feed and diaper entries. Keeping both in one place means a 3am feed and the pain-medication dose you took with it live on the same timeline, so nothing about your own recovery gets lost in the shuffle of caring for a newborn.
How does protect my nap actually work?
The hardest part of resting postpartum is not the lack of a bed, it is that you stay half-awake listening for the baby even when your partner is holding them. Protect my nap solves the handoff explicitly instead of leaving it to a mumbled agreement.
When you tap protect my nap, Houseloop hands the baby to your partner for two hours. The on-duty flag moves to them and Baby Duty Autopilot routes the next feed reminder to their phone, not yours. Your reminders go quiet until the window ends, so you can put the phone down and sleep knowing the alerts are going somewhere else. When the two hours are up, duty comes back to whatever you had set.
Can both parents see the recovery log?
Yes, and that is the point. Houseloop syncs across both parents phones, so when you log that you skipped lunch or have not had water since morning, your partner sees it. Recovery stops being something you have to narrate or defend and becomes shared information both of you are looking at.
The same shared account runs the whole household, so a partner who notices you are depleted can take a chore off your plate in the same app. Hand a task off and the reminders go to them instead of you, and recurring chores rotate automatically, so protecting the recovering parent is not one more thing you have to organize on no sleep.
Questions
What is a postpartum planner?
A postpartum planner is a tool for tracking a new parent's own recovery: water, meals, medication, pumping, and rest, rather than only the baby's feeds and diapers. Houseloop keeps the parent log and the baby log in one shared app so both are visible to both parents.
What does protect my nap do?
Protect my nap hands the baby to your partner for two hours. Houseloop flips the on-duty flag to them, routes the next feed reminder to their phone, and silences yours until the nap window ends so you can actually sleep.
Can I track my postpartum medication and pumping in Houseloop?
Yes. Parent recovery lets you log water, meals, meds, pumping, and rest, and set reminders so doses are not missed during broken sleep. Both parents can see when you last pumped and whether you have taken your medication.
Does my partner see when I need a break?
Yes. Houseloop syncs across both parents phones, so anything you log about your own recovery, like skipping a meal or running on no sleep, is visible to your partner. That makes it far easier for them to step in without being asked.
Is the postpartum recovery tracker free?
Parent recovery, including logging water, meals, meds, pumping, and rest, is part of the paid Plus tier, which has a 7-day trial. Core baby logging, partner notifications, and baby duty are free, and the same app runs your whole household.
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Log your own recovery next to the baby, and tap protect my nap to hand off and sleep.
Works on web, iOS, and Android. Free to start.