![]() ![]() This section is in case your babysitter needs to actually call emergency services. You may wonder why there is a section for your home address. Kids love to get sick on weekends and evenings and you’ll want that number on hand for yourself and anyone else watching your child. Leave your phone numbers, the number for the doctor’s office, and the after-hours doctor’s office number or nurse line. There are also spaces to add the numbers for the non-emergency police line and the fire department or other emergency services if applicable. The poison controlled is pre-filled as this is the nationwide number if you’re in the US. ![]() And it’s good to have it on hand even for yourself. No one wants to think about there being an emergency with their child when they are left with someone else but you’ll want to be sure you leave a babysitter with all necessary emergency contact information. You can also write in periodic medications like antibiotics, eye drops, etc whatever the case may be. This will save you from googling or calling the doctor’s office when you forget the proper dosage. ![]() Write down dosage information for commonly used medications like Tylenol or Ibuprofen (just be sure to update it accordingly). This section may be more useful to you than a babysitter, as we don’t generally leave our kids when they’re not feeling well. They can’t tell them that they’re allergic to peanut butter, or eggs, or latex, or medications.īe sure to verbally convey common ones like food but write down all of them in case of an emergency. AllergiesĪllergies are one of the most important things you’ll want to convey to any babysitter, nanny, or family member you are leaving in charge of your baby. Diaper change sectionīefore you become a parent it’s hard to imagine the amount of time you’ll spend talking about the peep and poop habits and quality of another person! You can quickly mark down recent diaper changes so you know when they may need another change and if they’ve had a bowel movement or not. So you’ll want to know when they slept, how long, and when they probably need to go to sleep again. Depending on your kid wake windows can be super important. Sleep such an important and sometimes fickle part of raising kids. ![]() You don’t have to include everything but you can jot down things you’re concerned about them getting too much of. Quickly jot down the time they ate and a description of what they ate. It also helps me to control how much sugar & treats they have in a day. Plus, for their digestive health I don’t want them to have too much yogurt or too many bananas. I try to give my kids a balanced diet so it’s important for us to know what they’ve already eaten today. This is a fillable PDF so you’ll be able to type in the more permanent information if you wish. ( You’ll want the fine tip kind to make it easier to write) I recommend laminating it or placing it inside a sheet protector so you can use the same one over and over again with fine tip dry-erase markers. The form will print on one 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper. I charge just $2.99 for this resource that you can use over and over again. Get your “Baby Brief” printable and then let’s go over the different sections and what should go in each one. By putting up this one-page “baby brief” on our fridge we can easily see what’s going on. When they were changed, when they napped and how long, what they’d been fed so we didn’t give them 5 bananas in a day. If you make a purchase after clicking one of my links I may earn a commissionĮven when handing off to my husband I can’t tell you how much time we’ve spent talking or texting about the status of our kids. ![]()
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