mardi 10 octobre 2017
This Viral Sleep Chart Shows Just How Hard It Is to Live With a Newborn
Months 3 to 17 of my baby's sleep and breastfeeding schedule [OC] (data collected manually and visualized in Excel) from dataisbeautiful
Thanks to fitness-tracking wristbands and calorie-counting apps, there's virtually no aspect of our lives we can't record, chart, and study. Sleep is certainly no exception, but perhaps new moms are just too tired to parse through all the data because we've never seen anything quite like this before.
A Reddit user uploaded a chart that chronicled his baby's every move - when it slept, when it breastfed, and when it was otherwise awake - for its first year and a half of life.
"My wife started collecting data after three months because we were going crazy due to the lack of predictability that comes with having a newborn," he said. "We found it helpful and just kept going."
The Excel doc - in which "each column is one day and each row is a 15-minute block of time" might seem overwhelming at first glance, but it's clear that those early months were erratic, to say the least. Sleep time, denoted in blue, was constantly interrupted.
Why record all this? "It's a lot easier to keep something up if you can zoom out to see progress," he said.
We're glad they did: it seems their baby's sleep schedule began to regulate and that their now-toddler is consistently napping twice a day. Victory!
(Sure, we really wish we could see what those first three months looked like, but we'll give them a pass. That newborn stage is no time to be futzing around with an Excel doc.)
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