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Weaning tracking ideas?

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PensionPuzzle · 10/04/2022 09:41

Please don't judge me, I know this is unnecessary 😂

When I weaned my eldest I knew exactly what she had tried and which recipes I'd used, what she thought of them etc because I had the time and capacity to hold that info in my head. We did end up doing a food diary for nursery because they didn't believe how much better she ate at home than she did nursery but that's another post. But I never recorded anything before then, I just recalled it all.

However with my second I've just started weaning her and already I'm finding I can't remember for sure what she's tried and hasn't if it went in ok and it didn't cause a terrible nappy, and that will only get harder to remember when I start making little meals and things as opposed to single flavours as I'm doing now.

Anybody found a good way to keep a brief record? I don't mind paper or digital, I've got Solid Starts but I don't find it as good as I was hoping it to be and I'm not sure it will track what I want to, in time (although I do like the info about individual food stuffs and it's a very good app for that). I might just get another tiny notebook like we had for nursery but I'm open to snazzier ideas.

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Nellle · 10/04/2022 09:42

Ella's Kitchen send out free posters for tracking the vegetables they've tried.

PensionPuzzle · 10/04/2022 09:47

Oh I tried to get one of them as the eldest had one but it didn't seem possible to convince them that people would have more than one child 🙄 I might have another go at re-registering though. I found DDs in a cookbook the other day and enjoyed looking at it, happy memories!

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BertieBotts · 10/04/2022 09:59

Any baby tracking app like Huckleberry allows you to note foods, I used to use emojis! I very quickly got bored/forgot to update it though. IME you'll notice by the nappy if something disagrees with them and it's not that hard to think back a day or two and say ah yes, they had kiwi for the first time. Though TBH I am not convinced you see a huge reaction in a nappy most of the time. Teething can also cause dodgy nappies for example.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to whether or not she seems to like a flavour/texture because these things change day to day. Last week DS3 couldn't cope with little baby ring cereal (like cheerios) and this morning he's pincer gripped his way through a whole pile with no issues. A couple of weeks ago I had to do complicated half skin on things with banana because it was too slippy, and now he just eats it broken in half. They need to be exposed to flavours multiple times to decide if they like it and you will definitely remember if it gets to the third or fourth time you try something and it's still consistently rejected.

PensionPuzzle · 10/04/2022 11:24

Oh I've got the free version of Huckleberry, I'll have a look thanks! Tracked PFB sleep too of course but with little sister she sleeps when she sleeps (she is a far better sleeper than big sis even now though, chicken and egg I wonder?).

We have had a few mucous nappies already with things that surprised me so I think I need to keep half an eye on her, she has been much more sicky than her sister too. Or maybe I've just blocked out a lot of what went on three years ago 😂

I'll definitely see if I can make Huckleberry work though, hadn't even thought to look!

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