How To Keep Track Of Your Baby’s Habits?

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Making sure that you track your baby’s habits is very important. This can tell you a lot about your baby, the way he completes all kinds of tasks, how he behaves and so on. Understanding these things will give you a very good idea of what you can expect and what schedule your baby has during the day. This also helps you identify what potentially damaging or problematic habits exist that might need to be removed.

Use a dedicated app

If you want to ensure that you track your baby’s sleep, diet and other tasks, it makes a lot of sense to use applications/ mobile apps are very easy to access, most of them are free, and the fact that you are able to view explanatory videos, take notes, monitor sleeping schedules, feeding and the overall growth is very important. It’s a great tool and one that helps push the experience to new heights.

It helps more than you might imagine, and the quality can indeed be second to none. Some good apps are FirstYear, WebMD Baby, Baby Sprout, Eat Sleep, Baby Food Allergy Tracker, Baby Connect and so others.

What do you need to track?

Diapers

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For diapers, you want to track things like the number of dirty and wet wipes used every day. This will let you know if your child is eating enough at this time or not. Usually, kids produce 6 wet diapers a day, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Feedings

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You want to track every nursing session, when it begins, when it ends, when you are switching to the other breast and also how long every session can really be. A feeding chart will help the pediatrician figure out what is happening and why there are problems. It’s certainly something to take into consideration.

Sleep

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It’s very important to ensure that you are monitoring your child’s sleep habits and naps. You can also track the reason why your kid wakes up, be it from hunger or just naturally. You will see if your baby is sleeping the normal amount of time for his/her age or not. If it’s not the case, then the doctor will know what issues arise and what you can do to stop them.

Sometimes, sleep disruptions can appear from reflux and other health issues. So it’s imperative to monitor your child’s sleep, as you can learn a lot of things. Newborns need to sleep up to 18 hours a day, infants up to 4 months have to sleep up to 16 hours a day, babies up to 6 months can sleep 15 hours per day and so on.

Conclusion

As you can see, tracking your child’s help, sleep and health is extremely important. It will help you assess the situation and ensure that you are always getting access to the best and latest information. Once you know about and identify any issues, it’s a lot easier to solve them. That’s why using dedicated apps to monitor your baby’s health is extremely important!

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