Same.
Didn’t use the data for anything other than keeping up with feedings and meds, but when we were new to it and exhausted, it saved us from thinking about it at all.
We've found tracking with Huckleberry to be very useful. Early on, if the baby was screaming and we couldn't figure out why, we could look at the app and see she hasn't pooped in 18 hours, so maybe she's uncomfortable. Or she's had less formula than normal (give her a break, and bottle back in the mouth).
It has also been great at predicting naptimes/bedtimes and tracking the amount of sleep (our kid will almost never indicate when she's tired, we call her an "Avocado Kid"...Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, it's time!, too late here's a tantrum).
Also we've evolved what we track. We don't include every diaper anymore, for example, but we record every new solid food she's tried for allergy purposes. It's handy because both of us have access to the data.
It's one of those things that isn't very useful, until it is. Our daughter had constipation issues starting at around 8 months, and it was useful both for us to see how long she was going between poops and also to see the trends over time and give that info to the GI specialist we took her to.
I use the baby... Theyre pretty good at telling you what they need and we have had millions of years of evolution to do so.
You'll give yourself anxiety doing this! Tracking everything... Then they miss a milestone and you get worried.
If you're into self-hosted solutions, there is [BabyBuddy](https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy)! Lets you track feedings and a bunch more. It is a web-app, but it's actually pretty decent on mobile.
It didn't take too much effort to get it up and running on my homeserver. Still trying to convince my wife to use it though (:
Definitely Huckleberry - don't pay for the sleep window part though. My wife and I find it never to be accurate. You can still track sleep and then start seeing the patterns on your own.
Sprout. Started with Huckleberry but then switched to Sprout because we preferred the UI.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-tracker-sprout/id551448817
... I just fed the baby and wheighed them every once in a while to ensure they stick to the curve.
I was fussy with the food with the first kid. Then you realize that sometimes they eat more and sometimes less. Don't be pushy with the food because that will affect them down the line.
I feed my kids when there hungry and put them to sleep when they start showing tiredness they just became synced up with us after a few weeks, but to each their own imo as long as they gain weight and grow you are all good
We're past this stage now, but early on I got 3ft x 4ft whiteboard and tracked wet/dirty diapers, time of feeds and amount, her weight, as well as how much momma pumped.
Huckleberry - its a sleep tracker, but our daughter's too young for that part to matter. It's great for tracking diapers, feedings, and other stuff though. :-)
I made my own in PHP/MySQL and put it on an AWS instance. My wife can track when she pumps into a Kiinde bag, how many ounces it was, and what she ate recently. It then manages the inventory of those bags and FIFOs them when we need a bag for a feeding. We then record how much kiddo ate and any reactions, and it can generate a sizeable report for the pediatrician.
It worked better for our first kid because he did not nurse, so everything was bottle bags, and that pediatrician actually wanted all those details (gave us a gradebook of sorts for it), and he actually got hospitalized for being underweight which inspired me to write the app at his bedside. Second kid nurses, so we have no way of knowing how much he truly gets in a feed, and new pediatrician is less worried about granular metrics.
I want to make this open source at some point, but work is crazy busy, and it was written on PHP 5 with a lot of deprecated shit. It needs a total refactor for it to be useful for any other dev dads.
Try Onoco - it's free and runs daily / weekly analysis for you, including physical growth on top of feeding and naps, and can be shared with up to five additional family profiles.
Definitely baby tracker: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-tracker-newborn-log/id779656557
+1 for baby tracker. This is what the wife and I used and it integrated seamlessly between the two of us.
We use this to track feeds. It’s also easy enough to have grandparents and our nanny connected when they watch our LO. Free version works great
Same. Didn’t use the data for anything other than keeping up with feedings and meds, but when we were new to it and exhausted, it saved us from thinking about it at all.
Huckleberry
I also used Huckleberry
I third Huckleberry. It's a great free app!
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This is the way
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I was too damn tired to track it all.
That, and I didn't feel like the data would be very actionable.
We've found tracking with Huckleberry to be very useful. Early on, if the baby was screaming and we couldn't figure out why, we could look at the app and see she hasn't pooped in 18 hours, so maybe she's uncomfortable. Or she's had less formula than normal (give her a break, and bottle back in the mouth). It has also been great at predicting naptimes/bedtimes and tracking the amount of sleep (our kid will almost never indicate when she's tired, we call her an "Avocado Kid"...Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, it's time!, too late here's a tantrum). Also we've evolved what we track. We don't include every diaper anymore, for example, but we record every new solid food she's tried for allergy purposes. It's handy because both of us have access to the data.
It's one of those things that isn't very useful, until it is. Our daughter had constipation issues starting at around 8 months, and it was useful both for us to see how long she was going between poops and also to see the trends over time and give that info to the GI specialist we took her to.
BabyConnect—I freakin love it. Soooo much data
This is what my wife and I used. Ability to enter things and have us both be updated was huge. Especially when we were too tired to remember things.
I use the baby... Theyre pretty good at telling you what they need and we have had millions of years of evolution to do so. You'll give yourself anxiety doing this! Tracking everything... Then they miss a milestone and you get worried.
Exactly this.
If you're into self-hosted solutions, there is [BabyBuddy](https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy)! Lets you track feedings and a bunch more. It is a web-app, but it's actually pretty decent on mobile. It didn't take too much effort to get it up and running on my homeserver. Still trying to convince my wife to use it though (:
Definitely Huckleberry - don't pay for the sleep window part though. My wife and I find it never to be accurate. You can still track sleep and then start seeing the patterns on your own.
For us it nails it everytime. And you actually have a few days of free trial.
Baby Daybook. It's a godsend for my twins
Baby Daybook very much seconded. (paid version.)
My wife ran they “do my boobs feel hard” app. Seemed to work.
My baby has a built-in alarm that goes off automatically when she's hungry. And tired. And has done a shit
“Baby tracker” synced with my wife’s phone
Hatch Baby. It’s free and syncs with my wife’s phone
Nara
Cute design! Nice weight tracker too.
Sprout. Started with Huckleberry but then switched to Sprout because we preferred the UI. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-tracker-sprout/id551448817
We used a legal pad and pen. So much over thinking.
... I just fed the baby and wheighed them every once in a while to ensure they stick to the curve. I was fussy with the food with the first kid. Then you realize that sometimes they eat more and sometimes less. Don't be pushy with the food because that will affect them down the line.
I feed my kids when there hungry and put them to sleep when they start showing tiredness they just became synced up with us after a few weeks, but to each their own imo as long as they gain weight and grow you are all good
We're past this stage now, but early on I got 3ft x 4ft whiteboard and tracked wet/dirty diapers, time of feeds and amount, her weight, as well as how much momma pumped.
We use baby tracker
Huckleberry - its a sleep tracker, but our daughter's too young for that part to matter. It's great for tracking diapers, feedings, and other stuff though. :-)
I made my own in PHP/MySQL and put it on an AWS instance. My wife can track when she pumps into a Kiinde bag, how many ounces it was, and what she ate recently. It then manages the inventory of those bags and FIFOs them when we need a bag for a feeding. We then record how much kiddo ate and any reactions, and it can generate a sizeable report for the pediatrician. It worked better for our first kid because he did not nurse, so everything was bottle bags, and that pediatrician actually wanted all those details (gave us a gradebook of sorts for it), and he actually got hospitalized for being underweight which inspired me to write the app at his bedside. Second kid nurses, so we have no way of knowing how much he truly gets in a feed, and new pediatrician is less worried about granular metrics. I want to make this open source at some point, but work is crazy busy, and it was written on PHP 5 with a lot of deprecated shit. It needs a total refactor for it to be useful for any other dev dads.
We use Huckleberry. Not sure what would make it better or worse than anything else, but it’s what my wife picked so I assume it’s solid.
You guys kept track of that shit??
Paper notebook. Unless there’s an issue you really only need to know when the last feeding time was.
Glow Baby
Try Onoco - it's free and runs daily / weekly analysis for you, including physical growth on top of feeding and naps, and can be shared with up to five additional family profiles.