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My kid is the king of shitty micro-naps. In his 14 week life he's taken like two naps that weren't 36 minutes long. We try to do EASY, but my doctor said he was snacking too much so now we do it modified since the darn kid won't sleep. We basically do eat, activity, sleep for 36 minutes, activity, sleep, start all over.

@MenagerieMama: my LO is 14 weeks and around 10 weeks my doctor told me I needed to be going longer between feedings (especially since my LO eats formula). He was eating small little 2 oz bottles every hour and forty-five minutes! So over the course of a week I started waiting longer and longer between feedings (and dealing with him being fussy) and by 11 weeks he was going 4 hours in between each meal, and each bottle was 4oz (he now eats 5-6oz at each feeding).

No help for the crappy micro-naps. I still can't get my child to nap longer than 36 minutes...I swear. 36 minutes on. the. dot. for every nap. I WOH and my babysitter is able to get him to sleep longer, but even with her writing down explicit instructions I can never get longer than 36 minutes (which basically makes me feel like such a crap mom)

We followed it still with the short naps. She might eat less but I still offered. That way I knew if she got fussy, it was for a nap, not eating. Like @Jess1483: her naps consolidated on their own around 6 months.

@MenagerieMama: Maybe she's clusterfeeding? There are still some days where he only makes it 3 hours or 3.5 hours in between meals, but for the most part it's around 4 hours. I would ask your doctor.

EASY worked for our 11-week-old for about a week, until he started taking teeny naps (max. 45 min!) and getting really cranky because he wasn't sleeping enough. It put everything out of whack so I decided to give it up and just go with the flow. Sometimes he'll nurse to sleep, other times, he'll sleep after being rocked, sucking his pacifier or more rarely now, listening to white noise. I think it can be very difficult to try and squeeze a baby into a preset routine; you might end up making yourself crazy trying to get her to conform. Following her cues and following EASY much more loosely might take the stress out of it.

I tried EASY with my dd who was a chronic cat napper (30-45 mins, 4-5x a day) @and it never worked. It just frustrated me and I stressed over it so I dropped it. She was fine and perfectly happy. She didn't figure out longer naps until she dropped to one nap a day which was 13 months.