Small Hours

Small Hours is a quiet companion for parents of NICU babies, built for the long days and nights, the medical jargon, and the moments worth keeping.

Three things, done with care.

DECODE A NICU dictionary in your pocket. CPAP, NEC, A&Bs, corrected age, gestational weeks, every term in plain language, with the context that helps you ask better questions on rounds. Tap a care note and the words your medical team used surface their meaning automatically.

STAY CONNECTED Family who cannot sit at the bedside still want to be there. Invite them as viewers to follow along, or as contributors to help keep the journal, and share milestones, photos, and quiet daily updates with the people who love your baby, without group-chat overload. Caring for more than one baby is supported, each with their own space.

HOLD ONTO Your journal becomes a keepsake of the hardest, most tender season. Build scrapbook pages with photos and captions, choose from a wide range of backgrounds, patterns, and stickers, and see a live preview as you go. Open any page in full, swipe through your book from the first page to the last, and add glossary terms, milestones, care notes, and visits straight onto a page. Every entry can stamp both actual age and corrected age, so the timeline reflects how preemie parents really measure.

WHY CORRECTED AGE A baby born ten weeks early is, on their first birthday, a two-month-old developmentally. Small Hours treats that as the default, not a footnote. Milestones group by corrected month, journal entries record both ages, and growth tracking respects the runway prematurity steals.

WHAT'S INCLUDED • A scrapbook journal with photos and captions, backgrounds, patterns, and stickers, with full editing and a live preview • A sample book that shows what a finished page can look like • Care notes with auto-detected term definitions (52+ NICU terms) • Glossary terms, milestones, care notes, and visits you can add onto any journal page • Family sharing with viewer and contributor roles, and support for more than one baby • Milestone tracker grouped by corrected month with custom milestones • Appointment calendar with notes and outcomes • Corrected age engine accurate to the day

EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Journal, care notes, milestones, and appointments, all in a single quiet place. Create your free account right in the app and your space is ready.

THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Small Hours helps you understand and remember. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace your medical team. Always speak with your NICU staff and paediatrician for clinical guidance.

ACCOUNT Create a free account right in the app, just a name, email, and password, or sign in if you already have one. Every feature is included at no cost. There are no in-app purchases and no subscription.

PRIVACY Your journal, photos, and notes are yours. Encrypted in transit, stored securely, never sold, never shared with advertisers. You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings, anytime.

A note on the name. The small hours are the quiet stretches, the long shifts, the moments when the world is asleep but you are not. We hope this app sits gently with you, through the busy days and the quiet, small hours alike.