Introducing Ummy™ Patterns

The questions you'd want to ask if you remembered everything.

Nobody can hold four weeks of meals, moods, and off nights in their head at once. Ummy™ Patterns holds them for you — and gently surfaces what starts to repeat. Not a diagnosis. Not a screener. Just the questions worth bringing to your pediatrician.

The moment we built this for

It's Tuesday afternoon. Your kid is clingy. She slept rough last night. Was she like this last Tuesday too? You think back, and you genuinely can't remember.

You're with her every day — and that's exactly why it's hard to see. The days blur together. The pediatrician's office is next Wednesday. You'll either remember everything by then, or you won't. Ummy™ Patterns is the part of Ummy that already did the noticing — comparing each day to your child's own typical rhythm, watching for trends that repeat, and getting your pediatrician visit ready before you sit down in the waiting room.

What to expect

It starts simple. It earns its insights.

Ummy speaks up only as far as your logs let it. Here's how the picture builds — from your first ten-second log to the waiting room.

Your first days

Your day, reflected back

From the very first log, Ummy mirrors what you recorded — meals, sleep, and how the day felt — so nothing gets lost in the blur. No analysis yet, and no pretending otherwise.

Ummy might say You logged 9 foods, one nap, and a calmer-than-usual evening for Maya today.

After a week or two

Honest summaries

Once there's enough to count, Ummy starts adding things up — always showing its math, and only across the days you actually logged.

Ummy might say Fiber came in below Maya's daily target on 11 of the 16 days with food logged.

With steady logging

Patterns worth asking about

When something repeats across weeks, Ummy names it, shows the days behind it, and turns it into plain questions for your next pediatrician visit.

Ummy might say Calcium stayed below age-based reference targets in three of the last four weeks — worth raising at Maya's check-up.

Ummy never talks ahead of your data. If a pattern isn't there yet, it says so — and shows you what another week of logs unlocks.

How it works

What Ummy™ Patterns actually does.

Five things, working quietly in the background of your daily logs. Each one designed to be honest about what it sees — and what it doesn't.

The Ummy Daily Check-In screen — four sliders for mood, energy, settled, and frustration, with optional tags below

The Daily Check-In · About fifteen seconds.

Compares each day to your own kid's usual.

Not to other kids. Not to a textbook child. Ummy learns your child's typical rhythm and tells you when something is different — for them.
Watches across four threads.

Mood, energy, settledness, and frustration — captured in one quick end-of-day reflection. Combined with what you've logged for nutrition and sleep, the picture starts to take shape.
Surfaces only what repeats.

One rough day isn't a pattern. Ummy waits for repetition before saying anything. And every observation tells you exactly how many days it's based on.
Carries the context with it.

If a tough week happened during a virus, a trip, or a routine disruption, Ummy notices that too. Context tags travel with the data so what you see is never out of context.
Generates the questions to ask.

Before your next pediatrician visit, Ummy assembles a one-page report — observations, what reference standard each one used, and a list of specific questions worth bringing to the visit.

How Ummy talks about what it sees

Every observation tells you how confident it actually is.

Most wellness apps make confident statements after a few data points. Ummy doesn't. Every pattern we surface tells you how many days of logs it's based on — and we use words that match the actual evidence.

Strong pattern

28+ days logged
vs. age-based targets

Calcium appeared below age-based reference targets across most logged days this month (consistent gap, three of the last four weeks). Surfaced because there's enough data to make this observation reliably.

Emerging pattern

11 logged days
early signal

Maya's frustration ratings have sat above her own usual range on 6 of the last 11 logged evenings. This is an early observation, not a confirmed pattern. Surfaced as a note to keep an eye on. Not a finding.

Needs more logs

3 entries this week

Sleep was logged on three of seven nights. We'll have a clearer read after another week of consistent logs. Not surfaced as an insight. Just a gentle nudge.

Ummy only says what your logs can support. Every observation arrives with its receipts — and when there isn't enough to say something true, Ummy says less. We think that's what you'd want from anyone talking about your child.

Other apps tell you what's wrong. Ummy™ Patterns shows you what to ask about.

Anchored to your own kid's baseline

Comparisons are to your child's own typical rhythm — not to other children, and not to clinical thresholds.

Honest about uncertainty

Every observation comes with a confidence label and the number of days it's based on. Nothing is hidden.

Anchored to real standards

Every observation references recognized sources — Dietary Reference Intakes, CDC growth charts, AASM sleep recommendations.

Your child's data stays private

Never sold. Never used for advertising. Visible only to you and people you explicitly invite.

Rooted in established science

Built on the Ummy Pattern Engine.

Underneath the friendly tone is a deliberately small system that follows established pediatric measurement traditions. The four dimensions in the Daily Check-In are informed by the same parent-proxy measurement frameworks used in pediatric research — the Clark-Watson model of independent affect dimensions, and the structure of the NIH Toolbox and PROMIS Pediatric parent-report instruments. End-of-day reflection follows the daily-diary methodology that the literature describes as a practical compromise for everyday use. This is a consumer wellness tool, not a clinical screener — and the engine that powers it is built to be honest about that distinction.

Clark-Watson tripartite model NIH Toolbox parent-proxy PROMIS Pediatric Dietary Reference Intakes CDC growth charts AASM sleep recommendations FDA General Wellness Policy