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So this is a bit in flux since we just shifted her bedtime with daylight savings. She's been on 2 naps for a while, we often will try for nap 3 because she'll be tired and it's a long stretch from nap 2 to bedtime but she HATES her 3rd nap so we usually just need to go adventuring in the afternoon. We don't push it because it just makes everyone cranky and as long as she stays occupied she's fine. Girlfriend loves her bedtime though! It was 6pm until we used daylight savings to move it.

6:30-7:30am wake up
9:30am nap 1-2 hrs
1:30pm nap 1-2 hrs
(she's been doing 1.5 hr naps lately)
7pm bedtime
Usually 2 MOTN wake ups

Though today she was up 4 times last night, then catnapped slept in bed with me after I got her at 7:30 for an hour, and went down for her first nap at 10:30 and is now waking up at 1pm! So go figure. Clearly just a "loose" schedule, ha.

2-3 hours after she wakes up for the day, then 3-4 hours after that. Bedtime is 3-4 hours after her second nap.

We pushed to a 2 nap schedule at 5 months. It was hard, but her naps consolidated naturally shortly thereafter. We just had to do super early bedtime which she fought, but there was no other way.

Have you tried nap extensions? Assuming you are home with LO during the day. I was a SAHM at that point and I would rock LO back to sleep once she started to stir around 40 minutes in. It would get me another 45 minutes and a happier baby.

LO didn't drop to 2 naps until pretty late (maybe 8 months?) and even now he still has some 3 nap days. His day looks something like this:

5-6am Wake up
8/8:30 - 10-11:30 First nap
12/1 - 2/3 Second nap
(Optional 4-5 Third nap)
7:30 Bedtime

I only attempt the third nap if the first two were super super short like 1.5 hours each and the second ended at 2, which even if I did bedtime at 7 would be too long of a stretch. Sometimes he'll just lie there and play around in bed for the entire time his white noise is on which is fine with me, so I just leave him there.