la quantified self meetup (10/12) - ellie's log from yasmin lucerno
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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Ellie’s Log
Yasmin LuceroQS LA meet-up October 2012
www.yasminlucero.net
Ellie, ten days old
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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...
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What we tracked• sleep
• feedings
• diapers
• medicines
• spitup
• weight
Thanks to Tori Moses, our nanny, who did a lot
of the actual work
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Key technology: velcro tape
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The log (latest version)
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1st month
2nd-4th month
5th-6th month
6+ month
feeding breastfeed - left (mins)breastfeed - right (mins)bottle milk (ounces)
breastfeed - left (mins)breastfeed - right (mins)bottle milk (ounces)
breastfeed (LR)bottle milk (ounces)
breastfeed (yes/no)solid food typesnew 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)
spitupmedicines medicines
Variables tracked evolved over time as needed
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Sleep(or lack of)
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Newborns sleep a lot
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But they don’t sleep for very long at a time
9 month sleep regression
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She can’t seem to stay asleep
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Night time consolidation
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Night consolidation
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Disappearing day sleep
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Naps: a measure of how long she can stay awake
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This isn’t supposed to happen
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Feedings
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In the beginning, feedings are frequent and longLater, they are fewer and faster
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It took about three months for feedings to drop down to a typical ten minutes long
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Bottles of milk, while mom sleeps
hospital stay
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Learning to eat
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Settling into a schedule
5-10 total diapers per day
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Weight
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Our 50th percentile baby
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Early days: apparently reflux suppressed growth
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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
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Teething
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The books are liars
first teeth cut through
(at last)
start of teething: age 4 months
first teeth: age 9 months
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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.
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Thanks!results up at www.yasminlucero.net