Baby Sleep & Cry Memory

Convert overnight nursery audio into a searchable baby sleep log with cry events, feeds, wake windows, settling methods, and trend recall across nights.

Baby Sleep & Cry Memory — BlueColumn Skill

A parent cannot log what happens at 3:40 AM, and a consultant cannot coach what they cannot see. This skill turns overnight nursery and baby-monitor audio into an indexed sleep log — every cry event, feed, and wake window with a timestamp and intensity — and lets you recall patterns across nights instead of relying on a sleep-deprived parent's memory.

Setup

Get a free key at https://bluecolumn.ai/login (no card). Keys look like bc_live_*. Base URL: https://api.bluecolumn.ai.

Store the night's audio

Send the monitor recording; BlueColumn transcribes and indexes the events as structured sleep-log entries.

bash

curl -X POST https://api.bluecolumn.ai/remember \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLUECOLUMN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "audio_url": "https://example.com/nursery/2026-10-03-overnight.mp3",
    "text": "SLEEP LOG — infant=Theo (5mo), night of 10-03. Bedtime 19:10, asleep 19:25. Cry event 23:40 (2m, low intensity, self-settled). Feed 01:15 (12 min). Cry event 03:50 (6m, high intensity, settled by rocking 4m). Wake window 03:50-04:10. Woke 06:20 for day. Notes: last feed was 20:30, room 22C, white noise on.",
    "title": "sleep-log - Theo 5mo - 2026-10-03"
  }'

Find patterns across nights

Ask what changed, not just what happened.

bash

curl -X POST https://api.bluecolumn.ai/recall \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLUECOLUMN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "For Theo over the last 7 nights, has the 03:50 night waking gotten earlier or longer, and what settling method followed each one?"}'

Log a one-off observation

Capture a single detail the audio cannot show — illness, travel, a schedule change.

bash

curl -X POST https://api.bluecolumn.ai/note \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLUECOLUMN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Theo: started sleep training 10-04 (extinction, 5m check-ins). Expect short-term regression; do not flag as a new pattern until 3 nights of data.", "tags": ["sleep-log", "theo-5mo", "training"]}'

Workflow

1. Each morning — store the overnight monitor audio with a structured summary (bedtime, cry events with time/duration/intensity, feeds, wake windows, settling method).
2. Before a consult — recall the last 7-14 nights to establish the baseline and spot the trend.
3. After changes — log interventions (method, schedule, environment) so recall can separate cause from coincidence.
4. Report — recall produces a per-night + trend summary the consultant can hand the parent as an objective log.

Billing

If the API returns 402 or 429, read topup_url / upgrade_url from the error body and surface that link to the user — do not retry.

Docs

API reference: https://bluecolumn.ai/docs — fields are text, q, tags (not content/query/note).