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I guess it depends on the child, and to a certain extent the parents too, but I found that it was pretty simple to keep track of obvious metrics "woke up" , "fe

I guess it depends on the child, and to a certain extent the parents too, but I found that it was pretty simple to keep track of obvious metrics "woke up" , "fell asleep", "changed nappy". I'd rarely do it in real-time, but I had a notebook I'd update pretty often. That let us predict our childs routine pretty well, enough to schedule naps anyway.

cdubzzz 9y ago
> enough to schedule naps anyway This was honestly the biggest motivator for me. Back when we were still a few months out, I found this article[0] and graph[1]. I was amazed at how erratic the sleep times are and it seemed to me that having a graph like that in real time could be incredibly helpful. It absolutely has been - we are 1.5 months in and able to pretty decently determine when it is time for some sleep because we can see the progress and patterns beginning to develop so clearly. [0] https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-sleep-patterns/baby-sleep-pattern-chart/ https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-sleep-patterns/baby-sleep... [1] https://www.babysleepsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Sleep-Schedule-All-Data1.jpg https://www.babysleepsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Sle...