(@) Is this a neccessary baby purchase?

[heyjude]

What is wrong with you people not wanting to know about every nano second of your child's early existence?!!!!!!!!

Pshaw. Weirdos.

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Jun 15, 2012 11:06:41 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Jun 15, 2012 9:50:52 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Is your baby still alive?

If so, then you did fine. I didn't record anything. I just kept the baby alive. I found he was pretty good about telling me to keep him alive, too.

So, it's like a dog? I can't keep a plant alive, but my dog was pretty good about reminding me to feed her.

Occasionally, a baby is more like a plant for the first week. Sleepy, quiet, requires monitoring of inputs and outputs.

After that, far more like a dog. It's pretty hard to not feed a hungry baby.

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Jun 15, 2012 11:19:00 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jun 15, 2012 11:06:41 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

So, it's like a dog? I can't keep a plant alive, but my dog was pretty good about reminding me to feed her.

Occasionally, a baby is more like a plant for the first week. Sleepy, quiet, requires monitoring of inputs and outputs.

After that, far more like a dog. It's pretty hard to not feed a hungry baby.

Bahahaha.

Why am I not surprised the awesome comes from a fellow Canuck

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I plan on using my iPhone for this.

I am sure there is an app for that.

[heyjude]

Jun 15, 2012 14:45:40 GMT -5 @lazerus24 said:

I plan on using my iPhone for this.

I am sure there is an app for that.

Yes. This mythical app of which you speak has been discussed quite a bit in this thread.

[GailGoldie]

waste of money
if you have smart phone there are similar and better apps avail for doing the same things now.

i had them for the twins- never used them... just wrote things down- and that was only the first 2 weeks while i was on pain meds - which was more important for me to keep track of than anything. - after that I didn't need anything.

[pescalita]

Jun 15, 2012 11:19:00 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jun 15, 2012 11:06:41 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

So, it's like a dog? I can't keep a plant alive, but my dog was pretty good about reminding me to feed her.

Occasionally, a baby is more like a plant for the first week. Sleepy, quiet, requires monitoring of inputs and outputs.

After that, far more like a dog. It's pretty hard to not feed a hungry baby.

Ok, this is the Laissez Faire School of Parenting. And I agree.

Although my baby would sit in his own shit for hours without making a peep. Nothing a little diaper cream won't fix.

[ttt]

I'm clearly a bad mother because I neither tracked things on an app nor wrote anything down with either of my kids.

My older child is now both alive and capable of helping me unload the dishwasher, though, so apparently I didn't screw up too badly.

[ringstrue]

Only thing about the app is that its harder to share your phone with your spouse than a stand alone gadget.

I used mine for the first few months.

I liked it since you didn't have to look at the clock and try to remember times - especially when you have no dependable memories with a newborn. You can also have it give you an alarm or not. So for naps, you know if they slept for 5+ hours but it wont beep when 3 hours is up, but if you wanna be diligent about diapers, say, you can have it beep you for that instance.

When she got like 2 months old it was good for "zomgs we haven't changed her diaper in how long!?"

ETA: I bet you could find a lot on eBay or Craigslist.

[heightsyankee]

Jun 14, 2012 18:40:54 GMT -5 josieposy said:

I used a notebook.

For #1, me too

For #2, I used an iPhone app