eat ,play, sleep, but dont babies sleep better if they are fed just before sleeping.

[OceanPrincess]

Some babies can go four hours between feeds - DD fell into a regular, four hour feeding pattern at around 6mths. So we fell into FPS, but not through me actively trying, it just happened.

Basically that is because she has never fed to sleep - maybe twice in her whole life? We have been BF since birth and she is now 15mths. So feeding just before sleep never worked for us, it might have made her sleepy sometimes but most of the time it was (and still is) like a tonic that wakes her up!

I think you have to try a few things out and see what works for you and baby.

[Pandora]

It really does depend on the baby.
If you think your baby is better with F-P-F-S than go for it - it has to be aboout what works for you, not what other people tell you. We only know what has worked for us
DS1 liked this and his day sleeping settled down once we move to feeed-play-feed-sleep

DS2 is a lot more flexible sleep wise FPS or PFS both work wel for him.

[Sagres]

I only have 1 babies worth of experience to go from, but the general answer was no, my baby didn't necessarily sleep better directly after being fed. Her actual sleep was pretty much the same regardless of whether it had followed play or feeding. So we mostly did F-P-S. In fact she wasn't really very good at feeding to sleep (would go to sleep then wake up 5-10 minutes later) so even when she was going through a growth spurt and wanted F-P-F-S there would need to a bit of awake time between the feed and the sleep to ensure she stayed asleep. A bit weird but it worked so we did that.

But as the others have said different babies have different preferences so there is no hard and fast rules, more like a variety of different strategies that you try out until you hit the one that works for you.

[Tamara101]

my DS is also 6 months old but he has no idea of any routine. i am lucky that he will happily go about his day as long as he is occupied. a big day running errands and such, may be out and about for 5 6 hours and he wont eat the whole time. i will make time while i am out btu he is too distracted.

i will admit i have tried the FPS but it really depends on his mood. he will on occasion try all at once. feeding is a game sometimes which involves spitting milk at me, then bang he is asleep. then i will go to put him down and the play begins all over again.
i think it is most important to do whatever works for you. and try to read their cues more than anything.

there are no such things as rules!

[MummaSue]

My baby has actually just put herself into the pattern of Feed - Play - Sleep in the last couple of days and I have to say, it is soooooo much easier to read her tired cues now that I am not feeding her to sleep. I was a bit confused as to what to be looking for and wondered how on earth I was going to get her to "self settle" and now that we are FPS-ing, she does self settle! It's really made things clearer for me and Evie seems to be happier in between feeding and sleeping. Don't get me wrong, I always offer her boobie before I put her down to sleep just in case she is hungry but so far she hasn't taken it.
Sue xxx

[lesci]

So far for me, baby sleeps well when fed, the p-f-s routine. But not that much or she'll be a needing 30 to 40 mins of rocking to sleep.

[HotI]

i would just like my bub to sleep!!