Food Journal

Keeping a food journal can be very important if your baby is fussy Simply use this tool to help isolate which foods or food groups might be causing your baby some discomfort.

Items you need: Spiral notebook or 3 ring binder
(I recommend a small notebook you can fit in your diaper bag or purse)
Pen

Make a table on your paper to include:

• Time you eat
• All foods consumed including beverages
• Baby's response at 2 hours
• Baby's response at 3 hours
• Other notes

I recommend keeping this record for 3-5 days in order to make a good observation/analysis. If you find a food on day one or two that you feel might be the gas producing culprit, eliminate it for 48 hours then reintroduce it and make a 2nd observation.

Here is a food journal you can print off and use.

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