Feed before or after nap

[voobylooby]

Somehow without really thinking about it, got into a schedule with 3 month old of eat, play, sleep. The problem with this is she never sleeps for more than 30 minutes. Although obviously it is great she can fall asleep without a feed.

Ideally I want to try and feed her before her nap instead, like I do for her big night sleep. Been trying this the last few days but seem to have ended up feeding her way more often, but she has slept for slightly longer.

Is this normal?to feed her often within each 'cycle'?

I quite often did eat play nap play nap eat. As otherwise Ds would have fed twice as often In the day and it would have been ridiculous

Did your ds sleep a decent time? I'm worried my dd is waking out of hunger if I don't feed before nap.

My 12 week old will not sleep longer than 30 minutes even if she's completely stuffed full of milk (we bf). It's like a timer is going off in her head... I wouldn't worry about her being too hungry to sleep longer.
Just out of interest: how do you get her to nap? It's an ongoing battle for us.

He was a catnapper when he was that age. And he mostly slept on me or on his playmat

Short (30-45 minute) naps are normal at this stage of development. She isn't waking due to hunger, she is waking after one sleep cycle (normal thing to do).

Feeding upon waking is a very good habit to get into. Completely separating feeding and sleeping is a healthy long term sleep habits.

Incidentally, in case you had not realised, the cycles you have naturally fallen into is called EASY (eat > awake time > sleep > you time)

Doublehelix we're lucky-just a dummy and white noise does the trick.

Maybe I'm wrong about waking from hunger then- sounds like it. Just funny because a lot of people have seemed surprised she only does 30 mins.

Yes we'd realised we'd fallen into EASY but was worried I was sacrificing hood sleep for a convenient routine....

Thank you voobylooby. Count yourself lucky, we need 15+ minutes of bouncing and rocking each time. Although my arms have gotten a lot stronger as a result :-D

We were doing that for a while doublehelix, but it now has no effect on her! Babies are so unpredictable!

As PP said, most of the advice is to separate sleeping and eating so they don't think they need a bottle / breast to fall asleep.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm going to stick to the pattern we fell into as it was working for us! It's great to have such a supportive group of mums to think out loud with at whatever random hour you want!