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I created a simple spreadsheet that we printed out / filled out each week. It worked great. No need for an app.

Same thing I'm doing right now. I intended to copy the data into CSV files to get a better sense of tracking, but (surprise surprise) I haven't kept up in what little free time the kid allows.

So far, the biggest benefits to tracking:

- Knowing how long we have until the next feeding. I swear he has a three hour timer in him somewhere.

- Knowing if one of us already gave him certain medications today.

- Calculating average amounts over the week before a pediatrician visit.

And, like all logging, it only shows its value in hindsight.

You can always throw away data you logged but later realize you don’t need, but you can’t go back in time and log data you now wish you had.

The benefit to the Baby Buddy approach is that whatever device with a web browser was closest to hand was where I could enter what just happened, or happened a few hours ago, because it was highly unlikely that I’d have entered a bunch of stuff I’d kept on paper into CSV.

Same. Sometimes, low tech is just fine. :)

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