🌸 Getting Started with Tia: Your First Week

Tia is designed to get out of your way. You shouldn't be spending more than a few seconds on a log when you have a baby in your arms. This guide takes you through the key things to set up in your first week — after that, the app is mostly just quick taps.

Step 1: Creating Your Family

Sign in with Google — that's it, no password to create or remember. On your first login you'll be prompted to set up your family: give it a name (most families use their last name or a nickname), and add your baby's name, date of birth, and a photo if you like.

Tia supports multiple children, so if you have more than one baby, you can add them all and switch between their records instantly.

Step 2: Logging Your First Entry

The Quick Log button is the first thing you see on the home screen. Tap it, pick the activity type (Feed · Sleep · Diaper · Medicine · Note), fill in the details, and tap Save. That's a log.

For feeds, you can record breast milk (left, right, or both), formula (amount in ml), or solids. For sleep, tap Start when your baby goes down and End when they wake — or log it after the fact. Tia calculates the duration automatically.

• Feed: Breastfeed (side + duration) or formula (amount ml) or solids
• Sleep: Live timer or manual start/end time
• Diaper: Wet, dirty, or both — with optional notes
• Medicine: Name, dose, time — and Tia tracks the next due window
• Note: Free-form text for anything that doesn't fit a category

Step 3: Setting Up Vaccination Alerts

Go to Medical → Vaccinations. Tia pre-loads the complete IAP vaccination schedule based on your baby's date of birth. You'll see every upcoming vaccine with its due date and a description.

To get Telegram reminders before each due date, tap 'Set up Telegram alerts' and follow the two-step flow: start a chat with our Telegram bot and send the code it gives you. That's it — you'll get a message before each upcoming vaccine so you can book the appointment in time.

Step 4: Inviting Your Partner or a Caregiver

Go to Settings → Family Members → Invite. Enter the email address of the person you're inviting and choose their role:

• Admin: Full access — can add/edit/delete all records and manage family settings
• Caregiver: Can log and view all records, but can't change family settings
• Viewer: Read-only — great for grandparents who want to follow along

They'll receive an email with a link. Once they sign in, they're added to your family and can see all your shared records instantly — on their own phone, their own login, no passwords to share.

Step 5: Ask Tia — Your Parenting Companion

The AI chat (tap the ✨ icon in the bottom nav) is trained specifically for parenting questions — sleep schedules, feeding concerns, developmental milestones, age-appropriate activities. It knows your baby's age and recent logs, so you can ask things like 'Is she sleeping enough for her age?' and get a contextual answer.

What Ask Tia won't do: diagnose symptoms, recommend medications, or tell you whether a fever is serious. For any health concern, it will always direct you to your paediatrician. We designed it this way deliberately — an app that plays doctor is dangerous. We'd rather be honest about our limits.

Step 6: Building Memories

The Memories section is where Tia becomes something more than a tracker. Upload photos and videos, write captions, and they're organised automatically by your baby's age. A 3-month photo, a first-smile video, a first-steps moment — all in one place, privately stored, and yours to export whenever you want.

This is the archive your child will one day be able to look back through. Take two minutes every few days to add something. You'll be glad you did.