Naps and eat play sleep?

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Okay so my LO has finally started taking naps longer than 30 minutes (most days) but still takes around 5 naps a day.. one or two naps are long (1.5-2 hours) and others are quick 30 min cat naps. My question is for those who went from 5 naps a day to fewer (3 or less), how did that transition happen?  And how do you maintain the eat play sleep routine if they are napping less and awake longer? I want to make sure he gets lots of food during the day so he doesn't need 2 feedings a night. This parenting business is hard, haha

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Following, were on the same schedule and I have no idea how to transition. I’ve tried researching but haven’t had any luck

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Sometimes we eat twice in-between naps. I guess it's more eat play eat play sleep.

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Go with the flow of your baby, they generally pave they way

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My daughter is on a similar pattern to you. She eats every two hours. I nurse her for anywhere from 10-20 minutes then we do about 20-30 minutes of play... either on a tummy time mat or her piano mat. Then we do 30 minutes ish of cuddling/holding her, making faces at her, etc. then its about time for her to go back for another nap. 
She used to nap for 2 hours at a time and now she is down to about an hour or hour and a half. 
Hope this helps

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If we take a short nap, my cycle ends up looking more like eat - play - sleep - play. I still try to feed at regular times, so she will take a full feed. But usually if she has short naps it means I need to change our schedule by lengthening the time she plays for before her nap. I just recently started doing okay "stations" and she will rotate through those pretty happily. When she gets bored of one, I move on

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With my first baby I was an eat-play-sleep crazy person and it just caused trouble for my little one... not to mention he didn’t sleep through the night till 7 months 😳- fast forward to second baby where I just went with whatever baby wanted in the daytime but my only restrictions were she needed to be awake at 5:30 (ie no more sleep past 5:30pm) and no naps longer than 3 hours... the girl was sleeping 8-5am at 2 months old! 
Moral: just go with what your baby wants and they’ll fall into the rhythm