--- title: "Read Today so far and what \"usual\" means · Cami Help" description: "The pills under Today on Home count what was logged today. Usual is your child's average by this time of day over the last 14 days that have logs." url: https://camibaby.com/help/today-and-usual language: en updated: 2026-11-06 --- # Read Today so far and what "usual" means The pills under Today on Home count what was logged today. Usual is your child's average by this time of day over the last 14 days that have logs. A small mark on a pill shows whether today is ahead of or behind your child’s usual day at this hour. ![Home in Cami: the Today heading with See all, and the Up Next, Sleep and Nursing pills, with trend marks on Sleep and Nursing.](https://camibaby.com/help/today-and-usual/today-row.webp) ## What the pills show Each pill is one question: **Sleep** is the total asleep, **Feeds** counts nursing and bottle feeds, **Pees** and **Poops** count diapers (a mixed diaper counts in both), and **Bottle** and **Pumping** show the amount. A pill appears when you have logged some of it today. It can also appear at zero, when a usual day already has some by this hour and your child has it on most days. Tap **See all** to open **Today so far**, the same stats as cards with a small chart each. ## What “usual” means Usual is worked out from your own log, like this: - Cami takes the **last 14 complete days**. Today is never part of it. - It keeps only the days that have entries, so a day you didn’t log does not pull the average down. - It needs at least **2 such days**. With less history, pills show no mark. - It averages how much those days had **by this time of day**, not by the end of the day. At 10 a.m., today is compared with a usual 10 a.m. The footnote on each stat’s sheet says the same thing with your child’s numbers, for example: “Usual is Mateo’s average over the last 9 tracked days, matched to the same time of day.” ## The marks - An up arrow: more than usual by now. - A down arrow: less than usual by now. - An equals sign: about usual. Small differences, such as a few minutes of sleep, count as about usual. - No mark: there is not enough history yet to call anything usual. The mark shows a direction, not a verdict. Temperature compares the latest reading with the one before it, and **Medicine** has no mark at all. **Note** “Usual” is your child’s own recent pattern. It is not a target and not a medical norm. ## See the day hour by hour Tap a pill, for example **Sleep**. The sheet (**Sleep today**) draws today as a line that climbs through the day, and a usual day as a second line. A breakdown sits under the chart. ![The Sleep today sheet: today's line and the usual line through the day, with the footnote about the usual.](https://camibaby.com/help/today-and-usual/sleep-today.webp) Pumping belongs to the family, so its usual is the family’s average, not your child’s. ## Related articles - [Feeding intervals and wake windows (windows, not reminders)](https://camibaby.com/help/feeding-intervals-wake-windows): The Up Next pill on Home shows when your child's next feeding window opens, or when the wake window ends. Cami never sends a reminder for either. - [Insights, patterns and the growth chart](https://camibaby.com/help/insights-and-growth-chart): The Insights tab shows the stats you pin, your child's patterns and every stat. Tap Weight, Length or Head circumference for growth over percentile curves. - [Choose and reorder what Home shows](https://camibaby.com/help/customize-home): On Home, tap the Customize Home button beside Track. Hide the rows you don't use, drag to reorder, and tap Save changes. ## 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%2Ftoday-and-usual)