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@winniebee: we are pretty much just like you guys!
Only difference is she wakes for day usually around 7-7:30

Our naps are usually 3 and last 40-45mins
A "normal" day is
7-7:30 wake
9-9:30 1st nap (40-45mins)
2nd Nap usually on the way home from some activity 11:30-12:30 (45mins sometimes an hour if I leave her in carseat)
Last nap 3:30-4 (lasts 40-45mins)
Bed 7:30

Her awake time is about 2 hrs

And once in a while he will really extend those awake times around the 3rd- 4th naps to 3 or when 4 hours depending on what we are up to! Very hit or miss. And his sleep overnight is pretty consistently 11 hours waking at least 3-4 times to eat (brief wake ups to latch on since we bed share)

She's 7 months now but has been on the same, two-nap schedule since 5.5 months.

Awake - 7-7:30
Nap - 8:45/9-10:30
Nap - 1-3:30
Bedtime - 7-7:30

If she didn't nap well earlier in the day, I gave her a catnap from 4:30-5pm.

I put K to sleep at 7:30 and she's up for the day around 7. Although she does sleep a bit on the 20 min drive to daycare.

Normally she takes a nap there around 9:30, but only around 30 mins. Then she might nap around 12 again no more than 30 mins.

DH picks her up from daycare around 1 and sometimes she'll fall asleep on the drive. Otherwise he'll put her down around 3. Then I wind up holding her for a 10 min or so catnap around 6:30.

Although yesterday she took a 2 hour nap and today she refused to, so there goes any consistency!

@winniebee: at 6 months our schedule was like this:

6:30 awake for day
8:00am-10:00am nap
10:00 - 12:00 pm awake
12:00 - 2:00 nap
2:00pm-4:00pm awake
4:00pm -5:00pm nap
5:30pm - 6:30/7pm awake
7pm bedtime

I'm a firm believer that catnaps are the result of being overtired (they were in our case, he wasn't always a great napper!). Pretty much any professional on sleep would say that being overtired results in trouble falling AND staying asleep. I'd start by reducing his first awake time to only 1.5 hours and adjust from there. It might feel weird doing such an early nap (7:30/8) but for us it worked really well and set the tone for the rest of the day.
Also, a strong nap routine helps a lot. Tried to always nap in the crib and did a mini bedtime routine (diaper, sleep sack, sound machine, music, and eventually his lovey).

At 6.5 months, Xander was around 3 naps a day. Although he definitely still had days of 4 30 minute cat naps!

Logan still cat naps for the most part. His naps are usually only 30 minutes IF we're lucky to get them that long. We do awake time of 2-2.5 hours usually.

@winniebee: haha, yeah, sorry I don't have any advice! He naps differently at daycare, but it's all over the place. Yesterday he did two 30 minute naps at daycare and had been up for 5 hours by the time I got there. Fell asleep in the car at 5:00 and napped 40 minutes, then up to eat. Fell asleep nursing and then up again at 8:30 to nurse again and back to sleep.

@winniebee: huh I did 1.5 awake time from 8-9:30 let's see currently still napping
but she had an awful night again, she just seems so uncomfortable..... must be teeth

I think some babies are just cat nappers. My first DD was still doing 40 minute catnaps every few hours at 6 months (3 over the course of the day), but once her night sleep evened out around 9 months, her naps settled down and lengthened too). And I haven't done anything differently with this one - she's just a better sleeper.