Feeding a small child feels like nothing is working, right up until you look back. The Progress tab is the looking back: how much of the window is left, what they have actually tried, and how long you have kept it going.
Pregnancy to age two is roughly a thousand days, and it shapes brain development, immune function, and the gut microbiome more than any stretch that follows. Add a birth date and you see the day you are on, how many remain, and how far through you are. Not to create pressure, but because a window you can see is one you use.
Variety early does more for a child's eating than any single meal does. Log what they have tried, from a plan or by hand, and the count builds toward milestones at ten, twenty-five, fifty, and a hundred foods. When you have more than one child, you also see the total across all of them.
Every week you plan extends the streak, and your best run is kept alongside the current one. It is a small thing, but it reframes the work: you are not scrambling on a Tuesday, you are twelve weeks into feeding your family deliberately.
An insight card surfaces what is worth attention at your child's current age, so the advice moves as they do. Past weeks stay browsable, so a plan your family liked in March is still there to cook from in July rather than gone when the week rolled over.
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