Yesterday I got a Fedex with my order from Land Of Nod, which contains these radical night-lights. I’m not one to toss around the descriptor “radical” loosely but these really are departures from your standard wall-plug variety. They sit charging in their base during the day but as soon as you lift them a few inches out of their base they flick on silently, providing enough light to change a diaper with minimal “wakeage” of the mini-human and do a feeding cycle. I really like that I can move them around the room like a camp light and that they look like little friendly aliens.
Also, we’ve been using Trixie Tracker to record diapers and feedings. It’s a pretty keen piece of software. I love that you can access it from and iphone or a computer; but I have to say that in the morning between the 1:30am and 4:30am feedings it’s hard to remember to enter the number of diapers I might have spot changed in between. So as a dad of twins I’m starting to ask myself: how exactly is it useful to keep tracking their poopy vs. wet diapers? We’ve established that they’re eating and gaining weight. The pediatrician didn’t ask us for a copy and I don’t think I’m going to print out a copy and keep it with Dominik and Scarletts’ first drawings so when can I stop doing this?
July 28, 2008 at 6:41 am |
You and your wife do a good job of both posting – my husband is a contributor on my blog but doesn’t post nearly as often. We might check out your software recommendation – many people set up their own spreadsheet to track it all which we might do so I can mark off breastfeeding, etc. when I am actually in their room instead of having to go to computer after.
July 28, 2008 at 12:57 pm |
I’ll tell you when you’ll need that sheet you’ve been very good at keeping up-to-date….when you realize it’s been a few days and ONE of them hasn’t poo’d in a while…or did s/he? You can go back to your sheet and see exactly how long it’s been (and which one it is!) and that might let you know if you need to call the pedi and ask if everything is okay.
We keep track of baths too – cuz if you don’t give one every night (and we don’t), or if you give them separately (which we did until they were able to sit in their bath tub seats and we could dunk ‘em together) it’s sometimes hard to remember when that last one was
I really like those night lights! How cool that you can bring them around with you…might have to check that out…