Meet NextNap: Your personalized nap time predictor

Nanit tracks your baby’s sleep automatically for personalized nap forecasts

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By Nanit Team

Here’s how NextNap works

NextNap uses real-time sleep data (captured by the Nanit Pro Baby Monitor) to auto-generate daily nap schedules tailored to your baby. The personalized nap forecasts allow you to optimize wake windows and plan your day with confidence.

How to access NextNap

NextNap is part of the full suite of smart features within the Nanit app, and is available to all Milestones and Memories Plan subscribers*.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Ensure you have the latest version of the Nanit app installed

2. Navigate to your Activity tab

3. Find the NextNap banner at the top of the screen

4. Tap the banner to proceed with your NextNap setup

5. Enter your baby's information (bed time, wake time, and number of daily naps)

6. Select your notification settings

Why NextNap matters

Quality sleep leads to healthy development and your baby’s daytime snoozes play a critical role. NextNap offers expert insight into optimal sleep schedules and brings clarity to one of the most confusing aspects of parenting. NextNap automatically taps into sleep data captured by the Nanit camera while you tend to the rest of the items on your plate.

Consider NextNap part of your built-in Nanit parenting team, here to help guide you through every transition period—such as dropping from two naps to one—while avoiding meltdowns caused by overtiredness.

3 reasons why NextNap changes everything

With auto-generated nap schedules waiting for you in the Nanit app each morning, NextNap is sleep science that feels like magic. Here are three core benefits you can look forward to.

Tailored nap time predictions. There’s no such thing as universal nap time. The schedules you see are designed with your baby’s unique needs in mind. You’ll even receive timely wind-down notifications before nap windows. If sleep happens outside of Nanit’s view, you can adjust the nap and/or bedtime count with just a few quick taps.
Hands-off sleep tracking, all from one app. NextNap is fully integrated within your Nanit baby monitor and app. No more bouncing between sleep tools and platforms.
One schedule for all caregivers. Centralized sleep tracking streamlines communication, allowing anyone with access to your Nanit app to easily reference sleep history and plan around the day’s nap schedule with confidence. Customized push notifications for nap status ensure no one ever misses a nap window.

With NextNap in your back pocket, you’ll unlock a level of schedule predictability you never thought possible. The hardest part will be deciding how to spend all that extra time to yourself…

*New to Nanit? You can easily subscribe to any Insights Plans at checkout. Current Nanit users who are not yet subscribers can upgrade to a Milestones or Memories Plan at any time.

CONTRIBUTORS

Natalie Barnett, PhD serves as VP of Clinical Research at Nanit. Natalie initiated sleep research collaborations at Nanit and in her current role, Natalie oversees collaborations with researchers at hospitals and universities around the world who use the Nanit camera to better understand pediatric sleep and leads the internal sleep and development research programs at Nanit. Natalie holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of New England in Australia and a Postgraduate Certificate in Pediatric Sleep Science from the University of Western Australia. Natalie was an Assistant Professor in the Neurogenetics Unit at NYU School of Medicine prior to joining Nanit. Natalie is also the voice of Nanit's science-backed, personalized sleep tips delivered to users throughout their baby's first few years.

Dr. Maristella Lucchini serves as Senior Clinical Researcher at Nanit. In her role, Maristella works to secure grant funding in collaboration with Nanit's university research partners and supports the development of the company's research collaborations around the world. Previously, Maristella served as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she led projects across several cohorts focusing on prenatal and perinatal health. Maristella holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

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