With a new arrival in your house, time with your iPhone will become ever more precious. Therefore you really need a new app that will fully legitimise your iPhone usage over the coming months, even when there are bottles to feed and bottoms to wipe.

The most useful iPhone application you can own after your child is born is one that you can use to track your child’s 3 main activities – drinking, sleeping and filling nappies. It is important to monitor these functions carefully as your newborn develops, and the iPhone provides an elegant and useful alternative to paper and pen.

My top two picks are Baby Geek (59p) and Baby Brain (£2.99).

Baby Geek (59p) is a great value application that is simple to use and has some really great timeline graphs to analyse feeding/sleeping/changing patterns. As well as the standard activity recording and tracking of which boob was used last, you can also record other events such as trimming nails or eating a meal. There is also the very useful ability to record and graph your baby’s height and weight. Coming in the next version will be the ability to synchronise data between two devices – this should be a great feature when both parents have iPhones/iPod Touches. My only gripes about Baby Geek are that events entered out of order mess-up the ability to display graphs until you go in and re-sort them (why isn’t that done automatically?), and the interface is a little sluggish at times. But otherwise it is keenly priced, performs well, and the author provides top notch support to any queries.

Baby Brain (£2.99) is at the higher price end of the market and actually does less than Baby Geek. However, the interface is simple and uncluttered, the app is ultra intuitive to use, and it also runs as quick and as smooth as baby diarrhoea. Again you can record sleeping, feeding and nappy changing, but this time there are no extra events, no fancy graphs, and not even the ability to record meals. This limits the use as a complete feeding diary to whenever you begin weaning your baby, which I feel is something that needs to be addressed in a future update. However, the basic functions of Baby Brain work extremely well and there is even a lovely icon of a pair of breasts that will never fail to amuse. If the authors could add a few graphing options, add meals to the logger, and also add the ability to synchronise between different devices, then Baby Brain would truly be the ultimate logging tool.

The following is a list of every single baby logging app available. You should note that to be eligible for my list an app had to cover all 3 activities (drinking, sleeping, changing), not be a ‘lite’ version with limitations, and it had to be available in the UK app store.

• Baby Geek (59p) – Dadgets.info top choice
• Baby Watch (59p)
• KiddyBase (£1.19)
• Nimble Baby (£1.19)
• Baby Activity Logger (£1.79)
• Baby Super Tracker (£1.79)
• Baby Time (£2.39)
• Baby Brain (£2.99) – Dadgets.info top choice
• Baby Daily Log (£2.99)
• Baby Log (£2.99)
• Baby Timer (£2.99)
• Total Baby (£2.99)
• TurtleTOUCH Infant Log – HOME (£11.99)

We’ve all been there – you’ve been caught in the breastfeeding room having a sneaky look, and you need to make a swift getaway from the fuzz. As you make your escape with your pushchair and baby, the rozzers deploy their stinger device, burst your tyres, and lock you up for being the pervert that you are.

Avoid such inconveniences by using some Tube Seal (Halfords, £7.99). Simply inject this gooey substance into your pushchair’s inflatable tyres, and they become immune to punctures from stinger devices. It worked great for our Jané Slalom Pro pushchair, which was getting frequent punctures from rose thorns, nails and other sharp objects that we encounter on our travels. The added bonus is that I can now go back to catching a bit of nipple without any fear of the stinger.

If your wife ever asks for proof as to why you should have the latest digital camera then here it is. While this photo may look like a spoonful of vomit being passed between the lips of my unsuspecting little boy, Henry, it actually contains a whole lot more.

We first noticed Henry’s first tooth when feeding him – he opens his little mouth so wide for those first few spoonfuls that you can almost see directly into his stomach. But having any detailed examination of the tooth proved impossible, as he won’t allow anything else in that mouth apart from foul mixtures of bizarre vegetables.

And so here is the cropped version of the photo that allowed us a detailed look at our little man’s first little tooth. You can clearly see the little white stub poking out of his gum, whilst mashed up pig swill clings to the underside of his lip. How cute is that?!