Following
Getting to Know xDrip+ — What It Is and What It Can Do
The free app behind so many following setups: what xDrip+ is, which phones run it, how it pulls a number from a Dexcom, Libre, or MiniMed, and the four ways a parent can follow.
Frum community
Frum community
You Asked Me to Build a Pump. Here's What We Built Instead.
A reader suggested I build my own insulin pump — Shabbos mode, a "trust me" override, and "Time in Optimal Range" included. I couldn't build the pump. Instead, meet the Range Report: FWD's third tool, with your own custom ranges and a Shabbos filter no one else was ever going to build.
Frum community
1000 Puzzle Pieces
Following a child's numbers has quietly become a maze — every family a different pump, sensor, phone, and app. About fifty pieces make 134 complete setups. Here's the whole picture, and a new tool that walks you straight to your own.
Following
From the Pod to the Parent: Following an Omnipod 5 + Libre Child
When we compared the Libre and the Dexcom, we promised to come back to one question — following. Now that the Libre can be followed on an Omnipod 5, here's the whole picture, kept simple: from the child's sensor to a parent's wrist, even when neither one carries a smartphone.
Frum community
Sending a Child to Camp? Let FWD Write the Letter for You
As camp season arrives, here are sample letters for the Hanhala explaining why a child's insulin device must stay with them — and an offer to write one tailored to your child.
Frum community
It's 2:00 AM
Three ways to know how your child is doing through the night — and one we'd rather you skip.
Remote Monitoring
From Watch to Watch — Following Every Number, Without the Smartphone
For the first time, a parent without a smartphone can follow a child’s glucose numbers all day — from a cellular Apple Watch alone. We tested it. Here’s the whole setup, filtering and all.
Frum community
Emergency Alerts for Flip-Phone Parents — Part 2: The Practical Setups
The hands-on half of our guide — which systems, which phones, which apps, and exactly how to get an urgent-low text to land on a parent's flip phone, including whether a smartwatch can cover school hours on its own.
Frum community
Getting the Emergency Alert That Matters (Part 1)
When a Parent Has Only a Flip Phone: how a parent can still get an emergency text the moment a child's blood sugar drops dangerously low — without following every reading.
Apple Watch
Parental Control on Your Child's Apple Watch
In our community, a child wears an Apple Watch for one reason — to monitor their CGM. Here is how to keep that watch a clean, single-purpose medical tool that can't quietly be "opened up."
Insulin Pumps
Will the twiist System Ever Work on a Flip Phone?
Many people are delaying the switch, hoping twiist will eventually work on kosher Android flip phones. Here's why that is probably not going to happen.
News & Announcements
Our new website — and other options to access the FWD Daily & Weekly Loop
Our newly redesigned website is live — plus how to read the FWD Daily & Weekly Loop on our blog, and how to listen to it over the phone.