How it works

Konokanang looks at what your baby has actually done: how long they stayed awake before their recent naps, how long those naps ran, how today compares to the last few days, and what time it is now. From that it suggests a window, and shows you the two or three observations that moved it.

It is closer to careful bookkeeping than prophecy. If the reasoning on screen doesn’t match the baby in front of you, trust the baby. You have information we don’t.

Wake windows are everywhere in baby advice, and they are not the settled science they’re presented as. You will not find them in paediatric sleep research, where the recognised drivers are sleep pressure building through the day and a body clock that is still forming. The familiar age tables come from reference data on how long children tend to sleep. Useful as typical ranges, not as targets to hit.

So we show them as ranges, say plainly that babies vary, and lean on your baby’s own record as soon as there is enough of it. Anyone selling you a precise number for a nine-week-old is selling you certainty that doesn’t exist.

A newborn has no day-night rhythm to predict. The body clock that governs sleep only becomes measurable somewhere around eight weeks, and settles further over the months after that.

Predicting naps before then would mean presenting noise as insight, so we don’t. In the early weeks Konokanang tracks, keeps everyone in the loop, and tells you what is normal for this age, including that scattered, unpredictable sleep is biology rather than something you are doing wrong.

Apps that claim to tell you what a cry means, with a percentage attached, are promising more than the research supports. The better evidence suggests a cry mostly carries how distressed a baby is, rather than sorting neatly into hunger, pain or tiredness.

What narrows it down is context: the things you have already logged. How long since the last feed. How long awake. What usually helps at this hour. What turned out to be the answer the last few times.

That is why Konokanang gives you a short ranked list with a reason beside each, never one confident answer and never a score dressed up as a fact. When you tell us what actually worked, the ordering improves for your baby, not for babies in the abstract.

Some things in your logs are worth a professional’s eye rather than an app’s: far fewer wet nappies than usual, feeds being refused, or crying well beyond what is typical for the age. Those are established signs, and they come from what you record, not from listening to a cry.

If we see one, you get a calm note suggesting you speak to your paediatrician, GP or doctor. It stays rare on purpose. Konokanang is not a medical device and does not diagnose anything. The most useful thing it can do here is help you walk into an appointment with a clear picture of the week.

Cry recordings stay on your phone. If you want suggestions that take the sound into account, that is a separate choice you make on its own, never buried in terms you accepted at sign-up, and you can change your mind whenever you like.

You can delete every recording from inside the app, in one place, without emailing anyone to ask.