We've managed to track the feeding schedule of our newborn since birth. Looking back at their feeding schedule was a nice reminder of the chaos of the first few months. The emergence of a schedule and circadian rhythm in the past month, which we could already feel, is really cool to see.
The light blue bars indicate the start (top) of each feeding session to the end (bottom). Light red bars are bottle feeding sessions for which there is no logged duration but we assume 15 minutes on average. The darker background indicates our current desired minimum sleep times. Nights without feedings in those hours are good nights.
Data were collected using the Nara app. The plot was made by exporting all Nara data, asking Gemini to make the plot with pandas and matplotlib python packages, and slightly tweaking the code. The final colab notebook is available here.
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Not an unexpected data set visually I guess, but it would be cool to see this for another few months.
It’s nice to see the noise normalize but a few more months would be a great end cap
Thanks for reinforcing my desire to not have kids.
This chart beautifully captures part of why parents of newborns appear to age by five years in six months.
So basically after 7 months you can sleep through the night already without that many disturbances?
My nipples hurt just looking at this.
As someone without children I had only a vauge awareness that having a newborn is very stressful and difficult. This graph has now put that fully into perspective to me now omg, (to any new parents reading you guys are unsung heroes because wtf is this how do you sleep???)
Ok now turn it into a midi file
This image should be shared with everyone who is working with someone just coming back from a short mat leave. Like, “if you are getting frustrated with Janet, just look at this image and remember they probably are half asleep right now!”
I’m just amazed you had the capacity to log this data while caring for a newborn. I barely had time to shower.
I was a preemie baby who was in the NICU for my first 3 months, my brother was normal term. Very grateful my parents were able to have grandparents be around when both me and my bro were infants
Really cool dataset, thanks for sharing and congrats on surviving what is undoubtedly some of the toughest times as a parent we all face.
This is so cool and validating to see as a parent. You should cross post in r/parenting! I’m sure other parents would enjoy seeing the lived chaos captured in data as well. 😜
This is why maternatiy and paternaty leave should be nine months ***each***.
At full pay.
God damnit, I have a newborn now and have been tracking feeding and diaper changes to put on here…..you beat me to it.
The idea that a couple weeks of maternity leave is enough is ignorant and absurd.
You deserve a medal! I’m curious—did you sleep train your baby at any point?
It’s cool how the noise begins to reduce to a pattern near the end of your graphed period.
I can see the red sessions increasing and showing a more clear schedule as time goes on – is that because you weren’t as concerned about logging the end time as much after a while or since you knew they tended to be around 15 mins, or is there something going on at those later times where it’s easier to forget to do it?
I haven’t had kids yet and my window is shrinking but I’m a quant researcher and while I know I can’t say for sure how it would go for me, I’ve often pictured myself doing something like this since I log all kinds of things for fun and to keep mysef sane anyway. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like TV static. Reasons I don’t have a kid 😅
I think this matches my experience was that as soon as you got used to a certain pattern, the baby changed it. I tried to do the middle-of-night feedings. It taught me to sleep whenever which is a useful skill.
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