Eat Play Sleep with 2 naps? 🤔

Question

Is anyone still following an Eat Play Sleep routine? It has been working well for us with 3 naps, which means he gets 5 feeds during the day (and 2-4 overnight still.. 😴) approx. every 3 hours. 
Babe's naps are finally consolidating and he has at least one long nap per day (FINALLY 🙌) , which doesn't really leave time for a 3rd nap, so we are starting the transition down to 2.
This would mean only 4 daytime feeds if we still did Eat Play Sleep. I'm nervous about that, as he gets up to eat enough times overnight as is. He is breastfed and only eats for 3-4 minutes each time. I have no idea how many oz he gets total, or daytime vs. overnight. 
Is anyone still doing Eat Play Sleep with 2 naps? Are you finding 4 feeds enough? Or how are you scheduling your feeds now instead?
Thanks in advance ☺️😘

Answer

When we finally got to two naps, we couldn't do eat play sleep anymore because I couldn't fit in enough feeding sessions (she's always been a little lean for her height, so I didn't want to drop below 6 feedings).
We now offer feedings when she wakes up, both before and after naps, and before bed.  We don't let her nurse to sleep because we did a lot of work to get her sleeping on her own, but the feeding is part of her go to sleep routine. We just always make sure to include a different element of sleep time routine between eating and going into the crib.
Working great for the moment 😂

Answer

I no longer breastfeed due to an unexpected emergency surgery, but we were following eat, play, sleep too when we switched to 2 naps. I had to stray a little from that routine with 2 naps at first, because he still wanted to eat 5 times during the day (he does sleep through at night but was doing that prior to changing nap schedule). If you don’t want to cut out the 5th daytime feed, you can maybe stray from the straight eat, play, sleep like I did. schedule looked kind of like this:
Wake 6:30-7am and eat
Play until 9:30, eat, then sleep at 10
Wake at 11:30, eat around 12
Play until about 2:30-2:45, eat, nap at 3
Wake at 4:30-5ish, eat
Play until 7ish, have final bottle, bed at 7:30
This schedule worked, but it seemed chaotic and it wasn’t long before I noticed he really didn’t seem interested in eating at his normal times. That’s when I decided to let him go and just feed him when he seemed ready. He just naturally dropped to the 4 feeds himself - goes 4-4.5 hours between bottles. Our schedule is now like this:
Wake 6:30-7 and eat
Play until nap at 9:30-10ish
Wake at 11:30 and eat
Play until 2 and nap
Wake any time between 4 and 5 and eat
Final bottle right before bed at 7:30
This schedule is definitely easier for me and my LO fell into it on his own and seems to like it (aside from the last couple days cutting his naps short but he’s still following the same eating schedule). Dropping that feed didn’t impact his night sleep - he continued sleeping through. A few days after dropping it, he increased what he was taking in his bottles just a little (.5-1 oz). However I do remember when I was breastfeeding my first, our ped said instead of increasing ounces, your body adjusts calorie level when baby drops a feed (like when they start sleeping through the night) so baby continues getting all the calories they need. I can’t guarantee it wouldn’t cause more night wake ups for you, but this is my personal experience with it!

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