After discovering this was important to me when I first started breastfeeding, I decided to create this simple daily breastfeeding chart to help keep track of my baby’s feeds. The chart also takes account of parents who are bottle feeding as there is also a column for pumping and the number of bottles given.
It can be helpful to show your midwife or doctor your daily breastfeeding schedule, especially in the early days of starting breastfeeding. This is important as the parents amongst you already know, a baby’s weight needs to gain at a specific amount in those first early weeks of life, or it could be a cause for concern. A health professional may be able to gauge more about your baby’s health from seeing their daily routine and feeding schedule.
There is also room on the chart to include your child’s wet and dry nappies too. This will be directly linked to their intake of milk and feeding pattern and can also be helpful information for your visiting midwife.
It can even help you with budgeting for how many nappies you may need in a certain size if you are visiting family and friends as you can estimate roughly how many nappies you may need per day. Certainly, this figure will only be a calculated guess but it can help to know roughly what to pack for your child’s travel bag!
