by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting

If I asked you how many gallons of milk your body has produced for your little one, what would you guess" What about how many hours spent breastfeeding or how many diapers you've gone through"
Looking back at the sheer amount of work having a newborn has been is "both validating and overwhelming" for Kristi, a self-described nerd. Not only is she good with numbers, she's been shockingly diligent about keeping track of how her daughter Grace has grown.
With the help of the Feed Baby app and Excel, we now proudly present to you the numbers...

Impressive numbers to note:

Total amount of milk Kristi produced in 14 months -- 70.42 gallons!
Amount of calories Grace consumed in breast milk -- 180,280 (equal to eating roughly 320 Big Macs). Average time spent breastfeeding during the first three months -- 4.8 hours per day.

Here's what all that time looks like.

Kristi explained to BabyCenter that she "started tracking because it was drilled into our heads during baby prep classes that baby needs x number of wet/dirty diapers. Then I had a big baby and she lost 9 percent of her birth weight in two days and I got kind of obsessive with it."
"Data has always been fun for me so I just kept on doing it even after I didn't really need to," the 42-year-old first-time mom went on to tell us. "The most interesting part for me is seeing the work that I put into this (at least a portion of it) quantifie...