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.
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
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
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.