Tracking apps

Only if it’s helpful for you? If not I wouldn’t use it

I used one for a little bit called ParentLove, you can share it with your partner so they can add to it too. But I was the same with the fixation, we don't use it now unless I feel like his habits have changed. Like dirty nappy output recently, so I'm monitoring nappies only for a couple of days. But as long as baba is growing and getting 6+ wet nappies, just go with the flow, you'll be doing a great job! 🥰

I used huckleberry which I found helpful for the first few months and then stopped. If it’s working without it, don’t use one! 😊

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you and your partner can both log in so he can input too, however my boy is 8 weeks and i’ve found myself forgetting to stop timing when he finishes nursing so i’ve just given up🙃 my body will tell me when he’s due a feed, if he doesn’t🤣

I did for about a year, which I think is too long 😅 Both my husband and I could enter information from our own phones. It was helpful when establishing a routine for baby and when trying to answer pediatrician questions about milestones, sleeping, eating, pooping, etc. since the last visit. We should've stopped when we got the routine down and he was progressing normally and the pediatrician appointments were further apart. That's how we'll approach it for our second one.

It depends on what works for you. I use one because I struggle with remembering when he last ate, how long he’s been down, etc. and my brain is so positive that a doctor is going to ask a question related to what I track and I’ll have to fish the app out (it’s been 5 months, I’ve yet to pull the app out when asked a question)

Huckleberry.

I think they're bad for mental health as you start obsessing over the data and looking for patterns. Just embrace whatever season of parenting you are in and listen to your baby/child's cues 😊 humanity survived for thousands of years without tracking appa

Logging things really helped me when LO was a newborn because time moved so quickly that I though I had changed her nappy half an hour ago and it actually had been close to 2hrs! It also helped me keep track of how much milk I expressed and how much she was drinking.

Once she started having longer wake windows, it was also really helpful for me to know how long she’d been awake, or when she had a dirty nappy.

Logging stuff gave me some “pretend” control over the newborn stage. It worked really good for me, but if it’s not working for you, that’s absolutely fine. Everyone finds different ways to cope.

I like it for sleep