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kpearse99 · August 2012

So I drive myself crazy tracking every diaper, every bottle, every nap and sleep on my phone app....I was curious as to when you were planning on stopping keeping track of everything!?

KandT0919 · August 2012

I think I tracked for the first week or so..

kpearse99 · August 2012

KandT0919:
I think I tracked for the first week or so..

I'm at 7 weeks hahaha maybe it's time I stop and relax a bit more!

juliane2004 · August 2012

If they are gaining weight, you are fine.

My DD2 is still not at birth weight (she was in the NICU for 11 days) so I'm tracking for now.

k8edgerton · August 2012

We stopped when DD was back up to birth weight.

However, I still wrote feeding times down after because I constantly forgot.

elfinali · August 2012

I am still obsessively tracking everything at 3 weeks..i know i could stop, but it makes me feel better for some reason

NerdyMama2 · August 2012

When DD is back to her birth weight I'll stop.

aylafsu88 · August 2012

I told myself I would stop when she was at 8 lbs (she was 6lbs 14 oz at birth). However, I still track because I sometimes forget when she ate last or how long she has been sleeping! My DH tells me I need to stop but I just can not see to yet.

mkflower3000 · August 2012

I stopped tracking how often she ate and at what times a while ago. My tracking for other things seems to be tapering off now - this started a few weeks ago. It kind of just happened; I suddenly noticed that I'm not always making sure to remember diaper, nap, and nighttime waking details.

I didn't necessarily keep track before for any particular reason other than to try and predict DD's behavior. It's been so unpredictable since about 6 weeks, though, that I've just given up and go day by day!

acbfreire · August 2012

I still keep track at 10 wks.. OCD, I know!

pixieprincss · August 2012

Didn't do it w/ either baby.

apollonia10 · August 2012

I still track everything at 7 weeks. It helps on days where I feel like his sleeping or eating has been weird - i can compare to the previous day. It also helps DH and I compare notes when one of us is watching him.

theboki · August 2012

I stopped after about a week.

ThePinkSuperhero · August 2012

At the 2 week appointment, the pediatrician said we could stop, so I stopped.

allardr · August 2012

For the first week or so I tracked dirty diapers to make sure she was eating enough. Now I only track sleep just so I can more see her patterns.

CYBURRCHIC · August 2012

I stopped after our 2 week appointment when I knew he reached his birth weight. Was tracking eating/diapers. I am thinking of tracking sleeping now because I want to start working to a regular schedule soon.

SpartyKim · August 2012

We track feedings & diapers but not sleeping. It helps to figure out when she might wake up or need next, especially when we trade "baby duty" between people.

seunrine · August 2012

I have the Similac Strong Mom's app on my iPhone and still track everything at 10 weeks. I still feel like I have no brain so it helps me see his patterns.

pugznploons · August 2012

I tracked diapers for the first 2 weeks. I have never tracked sleep as I don't really see the purpose

I do still track feedings and I track her weight/height etc.

wh288205 · August 2012

The only things that I track are the times that he eats and for how long, but I only track how long while I'm actually feeding him. This way I know more or less when he will be hungry again (he's 6 weeks old) and if he really ate as much as he normally does (i.e. falls asleep too soon).

Tracking the times that he eats is more of a mental note, so I never write anything down. It lets me know more or less how I need to plan the rest of my day.

mdharris29 · August 2012

I stopped the day we left the hospital.

strawberrytree · August 2012

Heh, we're still keeping track even though I probably could have stopped a long time ago. I don't have an app or anything, just jot down time/duration/side he fed from in a notebook, and make note of when he has a wet/poopy diaper. My son is EBF on demand so I like to look at the times he naturally feeds at and note any deviations from his usual pattern.

Also, after a certain amount of time (3 months or so maybe?) I kind of want to calculate how many hours since he's been born I've spent nursing. I'm betting I will have spent the equivalent of at least a few days with him attached to the boob. But that's just me!

mom0716 · August 2012

I tracked when I changed his diaper and when he last fed for the first two weeks. I used a little thing called "Itz Been" that we got at BRU. It worked really well. I only stopped because I left it upstairs one day for the entire day and I realized I didn't need it. Now I use it at night in our room as a night light when I am making bottles. There is also a button on there that I press that tracks how long I get to sleep in between feedings at night.

Socialworkgirl · August 2012

I track using the BabyTimer iPad app to help with predicting her behavior and because I love to look at the charts it creates for you. (yes, I'm that nerdy) She's always had plenty of diapers so I don't track diapers.

IgnatusDem · August 2012

tracking? what's that? lol, we were terrible of keeping track of every thing and DS was in the NICU for a week. Especially for the night feedings we would forget to write stuff down the way we were supposed to, I'm sure the nurses hated us for it. I recently found the piece of paper that they give you from the hospital to track and it's totally empty.