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In tracking bf and sleep now but am really ready to drop the app. I think as soon as I go back to work we will be done !

Yup! It felt kinda liberating to stop tracking everything! When I went back to work I continued to track night sleep, nursing, and BM's (only because she went a month with very few!), but this only lasted a week. It was too much of a pain then. The only thing I still log are the milestones so I have them saved for whenever I get around to doing her baby book.

I use it for diapers and feeding. I like it now so I know how long she has been eating

i'm still addicted to it! haha LO is 6.5 months. I hate feeling leashed to it. I've gotten better though - if during the night, i'll go fill it in (5 m Left) after i put her back down. during the day i'll usually surf on my phone while she nurses anyway so i just enter when she eats.

also, it has been immensely helpful with knowing what solids she is eating and when she's pooping cause she's had some serious constipation issues! if I didn't have the app i'd prob be writing it all down anyway, the app is just easier/neater.

I was addicted to my app until LO was 6 months old - I tracked absolutely everything! Then, I updated my iPod and it erased everything,even though I thought I had backed it all up to the cloud. I was lost for about a week, trying to write things down on paper and input it onto the computer version of my app, but it became too much of a pain. I eventually gave it all up for good around 7 months and now I feel so free! I didn't realise how much time I was spending every day putting in all that info - it was great to have it but man was it time consuming!

Good for you! I was also 100% attached to the baby app when DD was little. It took quite a while for me to wean myself off, but I felt so free once I finally did it. I still use the app to track her growth, but other than that, I refuse to look at it. Those were actually pretty dark times for me when I couldn't do anything without the app... It was a way for me to try to feel in control of a situation that felt out of control.

Wow that sounds way too much to keep up with! They have apps for everything these days!

I only use it for sleep...I like knowing how long he napped for and what time he last got up.

I used it as long as I was BFing (otherwise I'd forget which side, etc.). Then I continued to use it to track naps/night time sleep, because I knew X's maximum wake times, so I could check the app when we were out and about and know how long since he woke up, and how long we had until total meltdown/next nap time. But once that X is down to 1, fairly consistent nap, and consistent bedtime/wake-up times, I stopped using it. That was a little over a month ago, so I used it daily for 16 months. And yeah, it was pretty awesome to stop using it.

I haven't deleted the app yet though, because sometimes it's nice to see how things were way back in his newborn days. It reminds me to be so grateful for where we are now, because getting up 5+ times a night, spending 4+ hours nursing daily is rough. I'm not sure when I'll be ready to delete it.