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I wasn't very strict with EASY because Xander's naps were all over the place, but we eventually got into a 3-hour food schedule, which felt like the most important thing to me.

I would feed your LO early (5:30) so that you're not late to your 7:00 thing. Then if you have to, feed again at 8:30, but try to stretch it until 9:00 if you can. That usually is what worked for me.

I could never get her on a schedule- her naps were way too unpredictable and at that age she was eating more frequently than every 3 hours. In your case I would feed her early and then try to split the difference on the next feed (like 8:45) but be aware that she might be less hungry and eat less at 5:30, so could get hungry earlier.

At 4 months our schedule still changes every day based in wakeup time and nap lengths. I could wake her at 7 everyday but if she wants to sleep until 8, dammit so do I! I guess we aren't really schedule people.

@daniellemybelle: Same as @Foodnerd81. Our schedule varies daily depending on when she wakes up, how long each nap is, etc. And her night wakings have never been predictable--I think that's just something you can't really control.

ETA: LO is 4 months old

i'm not much help as we did EASY, but not the schedule, but routine. no matter how many times i said, "we're getting on a schedule" the next day LO was thrown off, or we had to go somewhere and it just stressed us all out!

@daniellemybelle: We kept (and still keep!) LO on a schedule, which he really thrived on. I think your idea of moving the feeding to 5:30 is right, then be ready to feed her early at 8:30 if she's hungry (at that age LO would have been!) or maybe you can push her to 8:45 and get her back on track that way. A lot of the time I would feed on the go and nap him in the stroller if we were out during a naptime (but more often than not he'd fall asleep late, 5 minutes before we got home, and then wake up once we were home, gah).

@daniellemybelle: I guess I don't think it's rational to expect LO to stick to a strict schedule but then change it when you have something to do? I don't want that to sound rude!! My LO's morning wake up time has always varied. He'll go through a few weeks waking at 6 then a few weeks at 7:30 and then back again. I have always roughly gone off his morning start time - so for a while he was nursing every 3 hours, taking his first nap approximately 1.5 hours after his first wake up, second nap approximately 3 hours after his second wake up. This was still a schedule/predictable time frame... it just varied depending when he woke! Not sure if that's helpful to you or not? I would love love love a more specific schedule, but I don't have the heart to wake him up at a certain time in the morning every day because the day I decide to do that, he invariably wakes up at like 5 am that day and my whole plan is screwed.