While doing some research and writing posts on eating, I found a very useful tool for tracking down the responses of your child when introducing solid foods. It is a very scientific way to either spot a problematic food to your child or minimize the chance of giving allergic foods to your little one repeatedly by mistakes:

If you do record all meals, then you can use summaries from past days to help plan meals and maintain variety.

If your child has a negative reaction following a meal, you can flag the meal and review it later. You can then decide whether to try the food again soon, or try it at some point in the future. Either way, you’ll have a record of the last exposure.

Trixie Tracker automatically creates a timeline of every food you add — from first contact to last time you gave it. If you have a question about an individual food exposure, you’ve got the complete history available for review.

You can also keep track of your child’s daily schedule of sleep, diapers, bottles, nursing, pumping and medicine with this online tool. Two week free trial available and subscription fees applied afterwards.

Trixie Tracker

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