Nap-eat-play not working

I feed half hour before going down for a nap - mainly because he’s too distracted to drink unless he’s tired.
Sometimes I get nap timings wrong and he does fall asleep drinking but this hasn’t affected his sleep and he doesn’t need to feed to fall asleep. He’s still capable at other naps and bed time to fall asleep independently.

https://themilkmeg.com/why-feed-play-sleep-routines-make-no-sense-for-a-breastfed-baby/

I thought this was an interesting read on it, there was another one I read but I can’t find it.

We never did the eat-play-sleep routine because our little one was just too refluxy that way, so we’ve always had play first & then a feed about 45/30minutes before a nap, it’s worked well for us. That being said, she still wakes up after a 45 minute catnap, I think because she can’t link her sleep cycles yet.

Babies are biologically supposed to fall asleep feeding, I don’t know why people give themselves the stress of trying to go against that.

I am feeding her about halfway through her wake window/ towards 30mins before scheduled nap
I use huckleberry app to help navigate the wake windows

I didn’t know that. We did feeding after sleeping because it was recommended to us by many to avoid baby becoming dependent on a feed to be able to fall asleep. Then again, we’re co-sleeping which goes against a lot of the advice as well but is also very natural in the end.. Perhaps it’s a good idea to balance what’s natural with what the western world expects from parenting.

Yeah, pretty much always give a bottle to go to sleep. I tried following the no milk before a nap etc on my first and I just felt it was making my life harder. My feeling is that they have a more content sleep, and likely to sleep through longer after being nice and full. Common sense in my eyes 🤷🏼‍♀️

Breast milk has a hormone in it to make them sleepy so feeding to sleep is okay :)

My daughter feeds on routine, naps and wake windows tend to vary each day. She needs more sleep in the mornings and less in the afternoons. Some times she can fall asleep on the bottle, other not. It's all trial and error. Give it a go for a few days and if you manage it then he should continue to follow that routine 🤞

very interesting read!

The only routine we follow is wake windows. I feed him when he's hungry usually every 4-5 hours and play in-between. I wouldn't worry about feed to sleep they are only little for such a short time. You'll blink and it'll be over. Doing it this way we have no issues with sleep even when the bottle was 3 hours ago. He will just nap/go down for bed and I'll feed him when he's up even if it's over 5 hours ago x