https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:40:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553589 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:33:46 +0000 Sammyfab 553589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We also did/do eat, play, sleep to dissociate feeding and sleeping. That way your LO isn't dependent on nursing or taking a bottle to fall asleep. It's always worked great for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553532 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:05:31 +0000 travelgirl1 553532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We try to do diaper, eat, play, sleep... sometimes there's an eat after the play too, to get her off to sleep. We are very flexible though, we try follow her cues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553528 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:03:34 +0000 cascademom 553528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do eat, play, sleep. Sometimes, it gets changed around. If he's not falling asleep, we'll put him on the activity gym and play until he's tired. Usually when he wakes up, we feed him. This morning, he was wide awake, so I played with him for a bit, fed him in preparation for daycare, then he fell asleep on me after eating. If it was the weekend, it would have been perfect, but we woke him up to a happy, smiling baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553523 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:00:31 +0000 oahujeni 553523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, a lot of playing after eating. I definitely understand now why you would want to do that! I guess DS needs to get out if the sleepy stage first before that will work for us. I just fed him and tried to play after but he just layed there like a lump with his eyes rolling in the back of his head because he's so tired! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553430 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:20:31 +0000 winniebee 553430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did eat, play, sleep until he was 4 months old and started only taking 30 minute naps. Then EASY was not so easy.</p> <p>At 8.5 months we now do bottles before nap. (have been this way since about 5 months old) Otherwise he is way too distracted to eat. He sleeps through the night and takes good naps so "nursing to sleep" didn't seem to mess with his sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553419 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:15:54 +0000 hilsy85 553419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do eat play sleep...As pp said it helps dissociate nursing from sleeping, and it also helps naturally spread out feedings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553408 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:11:33 +0000 MamaMoose 553408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do eat play sleep. She's a bad napper though so its often eat, play, sleep, play, eat again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553396 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:05:14 +0000 purrpletulips 553396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do eat-play-sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553375 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:44:15 +0000 NerdBee 553375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do eat, play, sleep. I believe that the purpose of eat, play, sleep is to attempt to disassociate eating and sleeping so that a dependency cannot form.</p> <p>In the early days, LO used to pass out as soon as he finished eating too and I just let him sleep. Some people will wake their LO up and play a bit before sleep but when my LO was asleep, it was really hard to wake him up. As he got older and got past the sleepy newborn phase, he stopped falling asleep while eating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/play-eat-sleep-or-eat-play-sleep#post-553365 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:35:28 +0000 oahujeni 553365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you play with your LO before or after eating during the day? I typically play with DS before eating and then he passes out right after, but wondering if he'll nap longer if I play with him and wear him out a little bit right before a nap? He is 8 weeks old. What works for you? </p>