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I know what you mean! I tried to implement the eat/play/sleep in the beginning but LO would fall asleep nursing and I didn't want to wake her. I would try to wait until she's in deep, maybe 10 minutes, then I would gently lay her in get crib and tiptoe out. It didn't always work and sometimes I'd have to nurse her again to get her back to sleep, but eventually she stopped waking. After we got her to nap with some regularity, then I tried the eat/play/sleep by nursing her then waking her up to play and put her down to nap. In the beginning I had to nurse her to sleep but we were eventually able to put her right down without nursing first. It took some tears and it didn't quite work until she was about 3 months, but now I can just put her down and she babbles until she falls asleep. It takes time so don't worry - she will find her routine soon. =)

I generally try to follow the eat - play - sleep routine, but sometimes when DD is clearly overtired and she falls asleep after eating, then I just let her sleep. It's so hard to get my daughter down on a nap, that I'll take whatever I can get.

Eh in my opinion, whatever gets my son to sleep is okay with me. So now I nurse him to sleep for every nap and bedtime and I really have absolutely no problem with it. When he's older and weaned we will come up with a new bedtime routine to help him fall asleep but for now it's what works for us and I don't really understand why so many pediatricians/doctors/etc say it's so bad to nurse them to sleep. Plus, I really love the extra snuggles. It is the sweetest thing when he sleeps on me. I love it.

i try to follow the eat play sleep. but i definitely let them sleep for the last bottle of the day because my routine for bedtime is bath, bottle, sleep.