Eat. Play. Sleep.

RingOfFire11 · March 2014

With DD1, we followed the eat.play.sleep. routine (she was FF) and it worked great for her - and DH and I's type a personality, lol.

Is this possible with an EBF baby? We have been trying to follow this routine again with DD2 (8.5w) but it doesn't seem to be working. I thought there are hormones in breast milk that make them sleepy so not sure if we should be trying to reverse this. We seem to be doing more of a eat.play.eat.sleep. routine right now because she's not usually sleepy after eating (or she is sometimes but just for a very short period).

I guess I'm curious what other moms who are bf'ing have been successful with.

ETA: I feed on demand and don't want/plan to schedule feeds. Was hoping to hear what everyone else's "pattern" of these 3 things were.

bossyfnp · March 2014

Ive havent had great success with it and ebf. But my lo also has gas issues, so.......but when i do do it its more of what your describing eat play, eat sleep...

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BabyBrooks5516 · March 2014

Mine does at almost 7 months but not at 8 weeks. The only thing I stuck to was a bed time routine, early on it was all pretty much feeding on demand.

RingOfFire11 · March 2014

Thanks everyone.

Don't get me wrong, I'm feeding on demand. I just was trying to see what's been working for others. I don't want to schedule feeds, just have a routine for the order of things....assuming that was even possible with a BF baby. Probably will come with time though.

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JillSandm · March 2014

We have done eat play sleep for all 3 kids from the day they are born. Sometimes play only lasts 5 minutes after a feeding, especially when they're tiny. Now, at 12 weeks she is awake for a total of 90 minutes, including the time it takes to nurse.

BootsOrHearts · March 2014

If you're talking about getting baby on a schedule of some kind - I can tell you that when DS was in the NICU he was only allowed to eat once every 3 hours. Sometimes he wasn't very hungry and sometimes he was hungry earlier and had to wait, but largely, he adjusted to that schedule because he had to. So when he got home we thought we'd keep to that schedule. And it worked great for about a week until he hit a growth spurt and wanted to eat all. the. time. and the schedule went out the window. Since then we just feed on demand.

Jen4033 · March 2014

Eating typically came before & after everything for us. Pretty much nursing to sleep & then nursing upon waking.

Eat. Sleep. Eat. Play. Eat. Sleep. Eat. Play. etc..

Laurakat81 · March 2014

Nope. Never really could get that one down. I stressed over it when she was really little but quickly realized it was another example of a book telling me what was best for my baby when the author had never met her. But we've gone through every conceivable pattern at different ages. She gets what she needs and I just follow her lead. With very few exceptions she knows what she needs and what works best!

eggmankate · March 2014

We try to follow this routine, but it gets a little mixed up when we pick her up from daycare and she wants to eat right away. I am nursing on demand as much as I can, but for the life of me I still can't figure out what a hunger cry sounds like. That is why I like this routine because if she's just woken up and is crying then I know it's probably hunger and vice-versa--if she's just eaten and crying then I know she's probably tired. I try to do eat, play, sleep to avoid feeding her right before sleeping so that she doesn't associate eating with sleeping. I can't always avoid it, but that is my thought.

DahliaFlower · March 2014

Same here! Or poop or fuss. Ha, ha.

Seriously though, although I am very much a routine-oriented person, I kind of had to let it go and let him take the lead. As much as it may make us feel better to set the order of events, I think in the end you're really at the mercy of whatever they want / need to do.

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slh6363 · March 2014

@Sing2phins‌ Completely agree!

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