Yeah, so my wife and I watched that 'Babies' documentary on Netflix, and the one episode that stood out was the one about sleep patterns.
And of course it did. I like to sleep, but circadian rhythms are super cool.
I'm interested in using this app for several reasons:
- So we can check whether we're doing an equal amount of work.
- So we can plan our days around when he typically sleeps.
- I want to see how long it takes for him to develop a regular sleep pattern.
Ultimately, when the data is collected, I want to perform some simple analyses using Python to check out when he entrained to a circadian rhythm.
So yeah, we'll see where this goes.
Update 5/14/2020
The app is built. It's meant to be used on a mobile device, as that's probably how we'll be using it when we have Dezzy. The main interface is a sidebar that allows you to hide certain portions of the UI if you wanna, three buttons for recording when the babe moves, goes to sleep and wakes up. And then a series of graphs breaking down our shared effort, when the 👶 moves, when he goes to sleep, and a line plot of the duration of sleep. There's also a list reading out the time stamps for when he moves. This will allow us to get an idea of how much he's moving on a given day. Oh, and there's a button for downloading the data, and for logging out. Aaannnddd there's some styling that changes when it gets late, meaning a rudimentary 'night-mode'.
The basic Python scripts for importing the .csv, cleaning the data and performing some very basic descriptive stats on the data.
I still need to figure out the best way to determine when his sleep patterns become regular. Like, I need to define 'regular' and find an appropriate statistical formula to implement to determine this.
Update 7/6/2020
Added a tracker for Ash's blood pressure, when we feed him/change his diaper, and a contraction timer along with revised effort graphs. I think I'm pretty happy with how it functions right now. It's totally usable, fairly reactive, and doesn't crash (much). Once we have some data I'll get back to Python.
Anyway, here's some pics.
