What do you think of this?
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Topic: What do you think of this?
Posted By: AngieBaby
Subject: What do you think of this?
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 10:46am
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Hi ladies!
We're playing with some new features for the site for you and would love your thoughts on this new tool we've made :) It is basically a weight/height tracker much like you graph on your well child book but you can also put in multiple children so you can see how they have all tracked along :) We'd love your feedback please - it is just the girl weight/height chart at the moment -but once we get that perfect from your feedback we will roll out the rest :) So please tell us what you like, don't like, what you'd like to see it do etc Thanks so much! |
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Posted By: AngieBaby
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 10:54am
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http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/baby/baby-weight-chart - http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/baby/baby-weight-chart
this would help :) |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 11:39am
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Can it have the older years as well, like up to 6? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 11:41am
| Funky. Pretty useless to me with one kid though since i could just look in his book but i suppose interesting to compare if you had a couple. I assume its a private thing, or would people viewing your profile be able to see it too? |
Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 11:45am
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Cool idea! ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: cravingsleep
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 11:45am
| Quite useful for those of us that can never find our Plunket books :-) I do think, however, that parents can become unnecessarily concerned/consumed with how much their baby/child weighs. That said, when they are small I know it's something of interest. |
Posted By: skiltz
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 11:48am
We will be adding other charts as soon as we are comfortable that the concept works and people want to use them. |
mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: Leelee
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 12:00pm
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I like the idea ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mrs_B
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 12:40pm
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I like it. Any chance of a pregnancy weight gain one? -------------  
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Posted By: Smelly_Kelly
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 1:03pm
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great idea!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/392aa6"> 
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Posted By: fionaonaboat
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 2:12pm
| I would use it for my two kids, especially as the second baby is only a week old right now! |
Posted By: foxy123
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 2:35pm
| I will find this very useful to be able to see how my twin boys are doing! Great idea!!!!! |
Posted By: babybelly
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 2:59pm
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I have just tried to use it by using the data from both my girls plunket books up to 8 months (which is the age of my youngest). The percentile results seemed to be quite different. Plunket books had them both sitting at just about the 50th %ile at 8months where as your graph had them much higher. I also found it hard to work out some of the data in their age in weeks. It would be useful if when you input the data it had an equivalent age in months.
I enjoyed doing it though and found it really interesting and I would keep inputting the data to keep track of both. If it was possible to export the information to an email to email to grandparents it would be even better! Thank you. |
Posted By: AngieBaby
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 3:13pm
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Great feedback
yes up to older ages will be sorted once we have all feedback etc in and we'll make change from there :) |
Posted By: AngieBaby
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 3:16pm
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love the feedback we will ad other ones soon and yes pregnancy weight gain could be okay - but it's controversial too - don't want women being obsessed with their weight gain - as a healthy baby is more important :)
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Posted By: Mrs_B
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 4:29pm
Same could be said about a baby weight chart though -------------
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Posted By: newmama
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 5:54pm
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Love it ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 02 August 2011 at 7:29pm
And gaining too much weight isn't healthy for Mum or bub either 
I think it's a good idea, though not sure if I would use it myself. ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: mumoftwins
Date Posted: 03 August 2011 at 12:04pm
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Love it!! I would definately use it to see how my 4 monkeys are growing! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Bobchannz
Date Posted: 03 August 2011 at 6:36pm
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Is the weight chart based on breast or formula fed babies? There is a different pattern of growth. Is it taken from NZ or international data? Eg are we comparing NZ babies with NZ babies? Or is the purpose just to show on a graph the weight with no interpretation?
ETA: I've just had a go at putting in the data. I find it quite hard to interpret. It says something like '99.6th percentile.' My daughter has pretty much tracked along the 15th most of her life so I find that strange. ------------- www.makedomum.blogspot.co.nz |
Posted By: Boni
Date Posted: 03 August 2011 at 8:15pm
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Posted By: rorylex
Date Posted: 04 August 2011 at 4:01pm
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i think its great I would deffinently use it next time.
and is doesnt give you a percentile weight for your child. that 99.6% is telling you which markers are for what weight percentage line not what percentage your child is ------------- Mummy to 4 boys Samuel - 18.6.05 Rory - 15.7.06 Mason - 13.06.08 Emmett - 24.01.10 Baby #5 - cooking |