Presentation from Yasmin Lucerno @ the Oct Quantified Self LA 2012 meetup - Currently tracking her daughter (born in Jan) Ellie's sleep, feeding, and diaper schedule. Yasmin shares her visualizations, analysis and discoveries.

1. Ellie’s Log
Yasmin Lucero
QS LA meet-up October 2012
www.yasminlucero.net
Ellie, ten days old

2. Methods and Motives
• Keeping a baby log is
encouraged by “experts”
• In particular, doctors want
newborns to be closely
monitored
• hospital logs/forms all sucked
• I could do better...

3. What we tracked
• sleep
• feedings
• diapers
• medicines
• spitup
• weight
Thanks to Tori Moses,
our nanny, who did a lot
of the actual work

4. Key technology: velcro tape

5. The log (latest version)

7. Variables tracked evolved over time as needed
1st 2nd-4th 5th-6th 6+
month month month month
breastfeed - left (mins) breastfeed - left (mins) breastfeed (yes/no)
feeding breastfeed - right (mins)
bottle milk (ounces)
breastfeed - right (mins)
bottle milk (ounces)
breastfeed (LR)
bottle milk (ounces)
solid food types
new food? (yes/no)
sleep NA
sleep (duration rounded
to quarter hour)
sleep (duration rounded
to quarter hour)
sleep (duration rounded
to quarter hour)
diapers Wet diapers (count)
Poopie diapers (count)
Wet diapers (count)
Poopie diapers (count)
Wet diapers (count)
Poopie diapers (count)
Wet diapers (count)
Poopie diapers (count)
medical NA
spitup (qualitative check
scale)
spitup
medicines
medicines

8. Sleep
(or lack of)

9. Newborns sleep a lot

10. But they don’t sleep for very long at a time
9 month sleep
regression

11. She can’t seem to stay asleep

12. Night time consolidation

13. Night consolidation

14. Disappearing day sleep

15. Naps: a measure of how long she can stay awake

16. This isn’t supposed to happen

17. Feedings

18. In the beginning, feedings are frequent and long
Later, they are fewer and faster

19. It took about three months for feedings to drop
down to a typical ten minutes long

20. Bottles of milk, while mom sleeps
hospital stay

21. Learning to eat

22. Settling into a schedule
5-10 total
diapers per day

23. Weight

24. Our 50th percentile baby

25. Early days: apparently reflux suppressed growth

26. Measuring reflux
• this was hard, and didn’t
produce graph-able data
• our qualitative scale:
✔ some spit-up
✔✔ a lot of spit-up
✔✔✔ whoa, that was a lot

27. Teething

28. The books are liars
first teeth
cut through
(at last)
start of teething: first teeth:
age 4 months age 9 months

29. What we gained
• communication among multiple
caregivers
• tracking helped us maintain
perspective
• specificity makes it possible to
recognize aberration
• Often, we learned that what we
were doing didn’t work. Which
meant we could stop doing it,
without guilt.

30. Thanks!
results up at www.yasminlucero.net