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No advice because we are in the SAME exact boat at almost 5 months as well. Sounds exactly like E's schedule. Does he sleep ok at night? E still wakes 3-5 times.

@Mrs. Champagne: at least he's got the night thing down!!

My LO was/is like that. She still takes 3 naps a day at 11 months! The naps were getting longer & I thought we were transitioning to two naps but they are back to short sweet naps now. He may just prefer to cat nap. I know it succckkksss, but honestly, nothing has changed it for us.

@Mrs. Champagne: I tried it all too; they started lengthening on their own around 5.5m

Same, I can't remember nap schedule with our first. It all will shake out sooner or later, but every day has different sleep needs.

@Mrs. Champagne: my LO is just over 5 months and we've been doing 3 naps a day now for a few weeks. We also struggled with short ones at first and still sometimes now too but he's been getting better in his own with time for some of them.

He also sleeps from 8-6 so I thought Id share our target schedule in case you want to try these timings. Often his longest naps are only an hour so I may stretch his awake time or desperately try to get him back to sleep in the stroller if he wakes up really early from a nap and it's threatening to completely derail our evening stretch.

6-wake and eat
8-nap
9:30 wake and feed
11:30 nap
1 feed
3/3:30 nap
4:30 feed
7 begin bath/ bedtime routine
7:30 eat
8 sleep

We moved from four naps to three naps right before 5 months, and it actually did wonders for extending the length of his naps. We had a rule we would "resoothe" if he woke up prior to 40 minutes, and just get him up if it was after 40 minutes.
@merbaby's schedule looks really close to our 5 month schedule, just and hour later on all fronts.

@Mrs. Champagne: she took a 3 hour nap twice this week! That's very rare for her though.

Okay so I am no help, but when my LO was 5 months, we were on 3 crap naps a day. They usually lasted 30 minutes each. We moved when she was about 6 months old and our life was just bonkers, and she kind of stayed up later because there was a week or so there when we were moving that I just didn't have time to go rock her to sleep, so she stayed up later and somehow we shifted into 2 (mid morning and mid afternoon) naps that were a little longer. They were typically 45 mins each I think. I remember her sleeping longer in the afternoon a couple of times and my husband and I basically danced around the house when that happened.

It wasn't until she started daycare at 11 months that they put the Nap Smackdown on her and she went to their one nap schedule. They assured me when she started she would adjust to one nap, no big deal, and I was so skeptical. Well in about a week, homegirl was taking a solid 1.5-2 hour nap, just one a day. So that made me think that if I would have just cracked a whip on her schedule and kept her busy so she'd stay up later, maybe I could have gotten fewer/longer naps out of her in the earlier months.

@Mrs. Champagne: I don't think it would have worked with my LO before she was developmentally ready to sleep longer. If I was to do it again, I would try once a week or so, just to see if it would work and not stress until then. If it's a developmental thing, it's not like you are doing somethig "wrong". Oh, and her naps got much longer and more consistent when we moved to 2 naps.

@Mrs. Champagne: We just got back from a long road trip to Toronto and Montreal and naps/bedtime weren't managed as usual. I noticed longer nights, more uninterrupted sleep at night, and baby falling asleep for naps easily (even in his ergo, which he NEVER does). This is making me wonder if he needs more wake time than I've been giving, especially after 2 maps.