(Video + Link) Track Baby Solid Food Using Airtable
If you have a baby that just started solids like mine, and you’d like to track what food they eat, this could be useful to you.
I’ll walk you through how I use a fully customized Airtable table on my phone to track my baby’s solids. It supports the following:
- Fully customized table that you can tailor based on your needs. The basic fields I have are: food name, whether you’re just introducing the allergen, date, form of that food, other food it pairs with, whether they like it or not, notes.
- Group by food name so that you can tell how many times you’ve given the baby certain food, and adjust accordingly - you would want to give common allergens (that they do not have severe reactions) repeatedly to help them get used to the allergens; for the foods baby don’t like, give the baby at least ten times in different ways (e.g. mix with other food), so that you have them experience the food enough times before ditching them.
- Throw away pen and paper - they’re so cumbersome! Keep the data in electronic form and sharable, you could have a partner or nanny track it, too.
If you do not have an Airtable account, sign up one for free - the free plan is more than enough for us to build tables like this. Then you can copy my table and tailor it however you want.
Download the Airtable mobile app to use it on the go - I recommend it. Although you can also track it using a laptop - it’s not as convenient - as a mom, I find myself with my phone much more often than with my laptop.
Enjoy and let me know how it works for you.
You will get the following: 1. A video that I walk you through how the tracker table is organized and how you can add new food to it; 2. A link to the tracker table itself that you can copy to your own Airtable account.