Looks like we'll be transitioning to 2 naps soon (3.5 months).
We've been doing EASY (eat-activity-sleep) schedule for the last couple of months and that has worked great. Usually 6 or 7 nursing sessions (wake-up, 1st nap, 2nd nap, 3rd nap, bedtime, and middle-of-night). With 2 naps should I add an extra feeding session to replace that 3rd nap one? What do you do?
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
My LO takes two naps but she's one so we just weaned off the bottle. Before that I would give her a bottle after each nap and then a couple of hours after the last bottle.
nectarine / 2039 posts
I gave it a try tonight. I'll call it 'dinner time' feed. And I moved bedtime an hour earlier, to 7pm. I'm pretty excited about this new 2-nap thing.
grapefruit / 4049 posts
Both my daughters moved from 3 naps to 2 at around 8 months... We do EASY as well, except my 2nd DD does still nurse to sleep sometimes.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
we followed easy with charlie, but with olive, she tends to sleep better if her belly if full so sometimes i nurse her close to nap time.
right now it's morning, before first nap (she's not hungry as soon as she wakes up), after 1st nap, after 2nd nap, bedtime.
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
My LO is 8.5 months and we have been doing EASY since she was a few weeks old. She nurses 4 times now with 2 naps:
1st nursing - at wake up (followed by solids about 30 minutes after)
2nd nursing - after first nap (followed by solids about an hour later)
3rd nursing - after second nap (followed by solids an hour later)
4th nursing - at bedtime
nectarine / 2039 posts
@NYCaliMama: @Mrs. Bee: @sandy:
Great to hear from others who do EASY! Wow, they don't need to nurse as many times a day when they get older eh?
My experimental schedule shall continue. Tonight he woke up one hour into 'bedtime', at his old bedtime, and I fed him again.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
I always nurse my son to sleep - I know it's a no-no but I totally couldn't care 
I feed him about 10 feedings in a 24-hour period.
GOLD / pear / 1845 posts
Toddler Girl was on decent solids by then so she dropped a feed when she dropped the nap.
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