Anyone giving up on Eat Play Sleep?

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I have been trying SOOOO hard to stick to the eat play sleep routine but my boy recently just wants to catnap during the day and wakes up super happy. I've been trying to put him down at different wake times to see if it helps and it doesn't. Idk if I should just throw out all the routines and put my mind at ease and follow my babies lead.  Eat when you show me you're hungry and sleep when you show me you're tired. Any advice? I'm sick of forcing it lol

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Follow his lead! I wanted a schedule so badly. But my little lady des used to create her own and it actually works pretty well for us. I also returned to work at 6weeks pp so we've been kind of doing the same thing everyday since. Our weekends are the free for all days. We just do whatever (:

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We generally follow baby's lead. Life got easier once we stopped forcing things. It also makes it easier to go out and do things cause we just make sure hes fed and has a clean diaper and if we're out and he falls asleep great, if not he'll sleep when we get home. Its good that he will nap on the go, for example, some babies wont nap unless theyre in their crib, in their room, with their music, etc.

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How long have you been doing it? With my first it took awhile for me to make it work for her. I dont follow it strictly. I mostly just dont want to nurse him to sleep because i want him to be able to go to sleep independently

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I agree with some other mommies on here. Follow baby's lead! Life became a lot easier when I tried to stop scheduling everything. I'm a very scheduled person but my pediatrician even said its almost impossible to develop a schedule until at least 4 months. He is starting to form a little pattern. He always takes a long nap (1.5-3 hr) in the morning then it's just 30 minutes for every other nap. I'm hoping that in the next month or two some patterns will become even more apparent and I can then take that and enforce it a little more each day

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I tried it and didn't like it.  I go off of my daughter.  When she's up we play but sometimes she eats and doesn't want to play.

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I never tried for the eat play sleep schedule but my LO has pretty much put herself on it. I'm not a scheduled person so I didn't want to make her need a schedule too much. I just go with the flow, come and go as I please, and make sure she is fed and changed regularly. We play when she wants to play, and she sleeps when she's tired. If we are home I put her in her crib or pack & play most of the time, but I also love to hold her when she sleeps. If we are out she just sleeps wherever, car seat, being held, etc. she has turned out to be pretty laid back and  relaxed. I never set out to do this, it just sort of happened but it works well for us.

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I wanted so badly to be on a schedule but she is already fussy enough there's no way I can implement a schedule on top of it. I just make sure she goes to sleep within 2 hours of being away and if she fights it.., then bouncing in an exercise ball will solve the problem!

Anyone giving up on Eat Play Sleep?

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