https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:39:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1993579 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:13:46 +0000 SleepyMonkey 1993579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1993565 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:57:53 +0000 Adira 1993565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did EASY with Xander, but he also did ridiculously short naps! By the time he was 12 weeks, I was basically feeding him every 3 hours, regardless of where it fell in the EASY routine. I still tried to keep him awake after eating, but sometimes it was just a diaper change because he did his wake-time before he was due to eat or something. EASY kind of went out the window at that point, but sometimes he would nurse to sleep and other times he wouldn't, all depending on how long he was awake for. Since he could fall asleep on his own at times, I didn't worry about the other times when I ended up nursing him to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1993541 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:37:56 +0000 miramira 1993541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988795 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:37:21 +0000 catomd00 1988795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Short naps are par for the course at that age. 45 mins and up is considered long! Naps dont lengthen and become consistent until around 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988790 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:34:46 +0000 Littlebit 1988790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988723 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:50:11 +0000 fussygal 1988723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD was an epic short napper, too and we did EASY with lots of nursing to sleep (EAESY) until she was about 4 months old and her awake time extended a bit. Then it was easier to get out of the nursing to sleep cycle, although it still happened quite a bit. Eventually, around 5 months her naps lengthened out of nowhere and it became even easier to set up an actual schedule, even though we still keep it pretty loose/eat on demand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988691 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:24:57 +0000 birdofafeather 1988691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988653 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:10:02 +0000 MenagerieMama 1988653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit: okay I need to scale back the snacks I think. She's had some one hour intervals today! Which is not unusual...oops... The boob is a little bit too easy of a fix for things I guess. Don't feel bad! I tell myself that my LO just misses me so much that she doesn't want to be asleep for long and miss our time together, or something, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988643 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:07:18 +0000 Littlebit 1988643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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).</p> <p>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) :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988632 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:00:15 +0000 MenagerieMama 1988632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit: how much is too much snacking? LO is EBF and I bet she snacks too much too! She's a chunk and could go way longer between feeds if she put her mind to it! Any tips on dealing with the micro nap issue? Maybe if I can atleast put her down awake that would help, but we still aren't there yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988565 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:33:34 +0000 Littlebit 1988565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988551 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:22:28 +0000 Jess1483 1988551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For awhile, we did sleep, eat, play, eat (if he didn't the first time), play, sleep with those short naps. They consolidated around 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/short-naps-and-easy#post-1988546 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:21:21 +0000 MenagerieMama 1988546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO isn't into schedules (yet? she's almost 12 wks) but I've been loosely following the EASY routine - with the exception of at night when I routinely nurse her to sleep. But lately she's been really into super short naps lately, like 30-40 minutes, and when I'm holding her to sleep for the first 20 min of them they seem really short! So she's often not hungry again to eat when she wakes up, but then when she's ready for the next nap sometimes she's too hungry to sleep without nursing so we end up nursing to sleep. I'm trying not to nurse her to sleep, even though it works well, because I WOHM and she doesn't always have that option so I wanted to have good habits for her!</p> <p>Any thoughts on how to make this work? Or just let it go? Also on a side note, one of my stupid dogs just barked at my MIL coming home, and now LO woke up enough to bust her swaddle (again...) and I only had her in the crib for 10 minutes! I feel like all I do is get her down for micro-naps repeatedly all day these days, bah! </p>