Bring your Nara Baby history with you

Open the child in Nara, tap the avatar next to their name, then Export Data. You get one CSV, and that's the whole of it: hand it to The Nursery and we'll read it before you commit to anything.

The file is read and shown to you as a preview: how many entries came across, what was skipped, and why each skip happened. Only when you press import does anything reach your record, and the whole import can be undone in one tap afterwards.

Breastfeeds, with the minutes on each side. Bottles, with what was in them and how much. Pumping, sleeps and nappies, as they were logged.

Every time stays exactly as Nara recorded it, with no guessing about the clock or the time zone. That matters if your family travelled while the file was being written.

Every entry arrives with its own marker, so importing the same file twice adds nothing the second time, and next month's export adds only what's happened since. You don't have to remember what you already imported.

The file carries the birth date too, so we can offer to set your child up from it rather than asking you to type everything in again.

The Nursery keeps the ordinary shape of a day. It does not store medical information, including when it turns up inside an imported file. Medication and temperature rows are skipped, and the preview says so rather than dropping them quietly.

Growth measurements are skipped for the same reason: they sit outside a routine-only record, and half a growth chart is worse than none. Entry types we don't recognise are skipped too, and always listed, because a quiet gap in somebody's history is worse than a list of what was left out.

One Nara quirk goes the other way. A combo feed is genuinely two events, minutes on the breast and millilitres in the bottle, so it's split into a breastfeed and a bottle rather than flattened into one row. The summary tells you how many were split.

If the file isn't recognised you get a mapping screen with two halves, because both are needed to read an arbitrary export: which column holds which field, and what each value in the type column actually means. Knowing only the first would still leave every row reading as an unknown type.

The importer works out what it can and tells you what it assumed. Where the file says what units it uses, we believe it: a weight read in the wrong unit is worse than no weight at all. Where a file genuinely doesn't say (a day-first or month-first date, or a duration with no label), the screen says so and asks rather than guessing.

Export is a first-class feature here, not a support ticket: CSV for a spreadsheet, JSON for everything including the detail a CSV flattens. Nothing you've already logged in The Nursery is touched by an import, and undoing one removes exactly what it added.

Who shares the record, and what they can do with it, or keeping it going when the signal doesn't reach.