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Ellie’s Log
Yasmin LuceroQS LA meet-up October 2012
www.yasminlucero.net
Ellie, ten days old
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...
What we tracked• sleep
• feedings
• diapers
• medicines
• spitup
• weight
Thanks to Tori Moses, our nanny, who did a lot
of the actual work
Key technology: velcro tape
The log (latest version)
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
Sleep(or lack of)
Newborns sleep a lot
But they don’t sleep for very long at a time
9 month sleep regression
She can’t seem to stay asleep
Night time consolidation
Night consolidation
Disappearing day sleep
Naps: a measure of how long she can stay awake
This isn’t supposed to happen
Feedings
In the beginning, feedings are frequent and longLater, they are fewer and faster
It took about three months for feedings to drop down to a typical ten minutes long
Bottles of milk, while mom sleeps
hospital stay
Learning to eat
Settling into a schedule
5-10 total diapers per day
Weight
Our 50th percentile baby
Early days: apparently reflux suppressed growth
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
Teething
The books are liars
first teeth cut through
(at last)
start of teething: age 4 months
first teeth: age 9 months
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.
Thanks!results up at www.yasminlucero.net
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