son is 5 months. next vaccine falls on the days i'm away for work so partner takes him. card is in a folder only i know about, scan reports on my phone, prescriptions somewhere in a chat lol how do you set it up so either parent can walk into the clinic with everything
We had the same lopsided setup with our son. What finally worked was boring: one shared folder in a cloud drive, both of us with access, and a rule that whoever gets a report uploads it the same day with the date in the file name. The physical folder stays for the vaccination card, because clinics still want to see the card itself. The apps that promise to do all of it never stuck for us.
Ha, universal problem. With our daughter we kept a small notebook, every visit, weight, what the doctor said, all handwritten. Fifteen years later the notebook is still in the almirah and the digital stuff from those days is gone. Puraton system but it works 🙂
We also kept a notebook, and I agree it outlasted everything else. One addition: keep a photocopy of the vaccination card inside it. The original was asked for at more than one school admission and did not always come back promptly.
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