--- title: "Time a nursing session, one side at a time · Cami Help" description: "On Home, tap Nursing, then tap the breast you're feeding from. Tap the other side when you switch. When you're done, tap Stop Nursing, then Save Nursing." url: https://camibaby.com/help/nursing-timer language: en updated: 2026-11-06 --- # Time a nursing session, one side at a time On Home, tap Nursing, then tap the breast you're feeding from. Tap the other side when you switch. When you're done, tap Stop Nursing, then Save Nursing. ## Start and switch sides 1. On **Home**, tap **Nursing** . 2. Tap the breast you’re feeding from. Its timer starts. The side the last feed ended on is marked, so you know where to begin. 3. When you switch, tap the other breast. Each side keeps its own time. 4. To pause, tap the breast that’s running. Tap either side to carry on. 5. When the feed is over, tap **Stop Nursing**, then **Save Nursing**. ![Cami's Nursing screen before a feed: two breast buttons, Left and Right, both at 00:00, with the left one marked as the last side.](https://camibaby.com/help/nursing-timer/start.webp) ![The Nursing timer running on the left side at 5 minutes 17 seconds, the clock inside the left breast button, with the Stop Nursing button at the bottom.](https://camibaby.com/help/nursing-timer/running.webp) Cami saves the feed where the clock stopped, not when you tap save, so it’s fine to put the phone down first and save later. ## Started a few minutes ago? Before you tap a breast, tap **Now** next to **Start time** and pick when the feed really began. The minutes in between count toward the first side you tap. ## The timer keeps going without you You can leave the screen or lock the phone: the timer keeps running and shows on your Lock Screen as a Live Activity. Everyone in your family sees the feed in progress, and any of them can stop it and save it. See [Live Activities](https://camibaby.com/help/live-activities) to choose what shows there. ## Log a feed after it happened On the Nursing screen, tap **Switch to manual entry**. Set **When** it started and the **Duration**, or tap the switch on that row to set an end time instead. Under **Split**, drag to share the time between the sides, or tap a side to type its time. Choose the **Last breast**, then tap **Save Nursing**. To fix a feed you already saved, open it from the Timeline: [Edit or delete an entry](https://camibaby.com/help/edit-delete-entries). ## When Cami asks a question first - **A sleep is still running.** Cami asks what to do with it: **End it and start** or **Keep it running and start**. - **The last feed ended moments ago.** When you save, Cami asks **Combine with the last feed?**: **Combine** makes one session of the two; **Keep separate** saves this one on its own. ## Change how the breast buttons look Open **More** , **Settings** , **General** and find **Breast Buttons**. **Point of view** chooses whether the buttons are drawn as the nursing parent looks down (**Nursing parent**) or as a partner facing her sees them (**Facing**). It only changes the drawing: a feed is always saved on the side you tapped. ## Troubleshooting ### I forgot to stop the timer Open Nursing and tap **Stop Nursing**, then **Save Nursing**. If the feed ended long before, save it and then change the times on the entry: [Edit or delete an entry](https://camibaby.com/help/edit-delete-entries). ### The timer doesn't show on my Lock Screen Live Activities may be off for Cami or for nursing. The fixes are in [Live Activity not showing](https://camibaby.com/help/live-activity-not-showing). ## Related articles - [Add a past entry, edit, reopen or delete it](https://camibaby.com/help/edit-delete-entries): To change an entry, open it on the Timeline, tap the ••• button and choose Edit or Delete Entry. To add one you forgot, tap + on the Timeline. - [Timers on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island](https://camibaby.com/help/live-activities): When anyone in the family starts a timer, it shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Choose which in More › Settings › Live Activities. - [Log a bottle of breast milk or formula](https://camibaby.com/help/bottles): Tap Bottle on Home, choose Breast milk or Formula, set the amount and tap Save Bottle. To time the feed instead, switch the form to the timer. ## Still need help? Write to us and a person reads it, usually within a day. From the app, Get Help attaches the details that help us fix it, and our reply shows in Cami. In Cami: **More › Help Center › Get Help** [Email us](mailto:hello@camibaby.com) · [Report a mistake on this page](mailto:hello@camibaby.com?subject=Report%20a%20mistake%20on%20this%20page%3A%20%2Fhelp%2Fnursing-timer)