Babysitter Information Sheet Printable
One page for whoever is holding the baby while you are out: the emergency numbers and your address in type you can read across a room, then allergies, the routine, the feeds and the two or three things that actually settle her. Type it in and keep it, or print it blank and use a pen.
No account, no email, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Every field is optional. Anything you leave empty prints as a ruled line to write on, so the same sheet works typed, handwritten or half and half. Everything you type stays in this browser under one key — no account, no server, and nothing carrying a child’s name or your address off this device.
The emergency blockIt is not the same number everywhere, and a sheet with the wrong one on it is worse than a sheet with none. Blank prints a line to write in.
Your sheet
A4 · one page
To keep a file instead of printing, choose Save as PDF as the destination in the print dialog and set margins to None. Turn on background graphics so the black emergency bar prints solid.
This sheet estimates nothing and authorises nothing. It is a list of what the person in your house needs to know, and the list is the American Academy of Pediatrics’ own: your numbers, a neighbour’s, the pediatrician, fire and rescue, police, the Poison Help line, the home phone, the home address, each child’s date of birth and approximate weight, any allergies or specific needs, and where you are and when you will be back. It is not a consent form and it does not let anybody agree to medical treatment on your behalf — those rules vary by country and by state, and that is a question for your pediatrician’s office rather than for a printable.
Safe sleep goes on the paper, not just on this page. Anybody who might put your baby down while you are out gets the same rules you follow: on their back for every sleep, on a firm flat surface, in a cot clear of blankets, pillows, bumpers and soft toys, with nothing weighted on or over her. This is the sentence most worth printing, because the people most likely to have been taught something different are often the people you trust most to hold her.
What you type stays here. The address, the numbers and the names are saved in this browser under one key so the sheet is still filled in next month; nothing is uploaded, there is no account, no server sees any of it and the clear button deletes the lot. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and how long a nap runs or how much a bottle holds varies from baby to baby — write what yours actually does rather than what a range says she should.
How this is worked out
- The field list is not invented. The American Academy of Pediatrics publishes a babysitting checklist, and every block on this sheet comes off it: the parents' numbers, a neighbour's, the pediatrician, fire and rescue, police, the Poison Help line, the home phone and the home address, plus each child's date of birth and approximate weight in case medical professionals need them, any allergies or specific needs, and where you will be and when you will be back.
- The emergency block is drawn to survive a bad printer and a worse moment. It sits at the top, inside a heavy rule, under a solid black bar, and the address is set in the largest type on the sheet — because the first thing anybody has to do in an emergency is say where they are. None of it depends on colour: printed in black and white on a nearly empty toner cartridge it still reads, which is the only test that matters for this particular page.
- Which emergency number is printed is yours to set, because it is not the same everywhere and a sheet with the wrong one on it is worse than a sheet with none. Pick 911, 999 or 112, or leave it blank and write it in. The Poison Help line printed beside it is the American one published in the AAP checklist and it is labelled as such, so nobody in another country reads it as theirs.
- Everything you type stays in this browser. It is saved under one key in local storage so the sheet is still filled in next month when you print another copy, and none of it is sent anywhere — there is no account, no server and no request carrying a child's name or a home address off this device. Leave a field empty and the sheet prints a ruled line for it instead, so the same page works as a blank form.
- The rest of the sheet is the handover: naps and bedtime with their times, what and how much she eats and when, the comfort tricks that actually work, house notes about where things are kept, and a wide box for anything that does not fit a label. It prints at true page size in A4 or US Letter, one page, margins already drawn in.
The short answers
Where this comes from
- American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2022). Babysitting Reminders: Checklist for Parents & Sitters. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-home/Pages/babysitting-reminders.aspx
- American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). How Often and How Much Should Your Baby Eat?. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/feeding-nutrition/Pages/How-Often-and-How-Much-Should-Your-Baby-Eat.aspx
- NHS (2024). How to change your baby's nappy. https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/how-to-change-your-babys-nappy/
- American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2022). How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe: AAP Policy Explained. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/sleep/Pages/A-Parents-Guide-to-Safe-Sleep.aspx
- NHS (2025). Reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/
Every link above was opened and read when this page was last updated. Snuggle is not affiliated with any of these organisations and none of them has reviewed this page. Nothing here is medical advice.
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