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3.5 months is when C's sleep started to really turn around and a schedule of sorts kind of evolved. Before that.... it was not good. And I've said maybe I wish I didn't nurse to sleep in the beginning, but I truly do not know what else I would have differently, so I probably will do the same with #2 if I can.

That said, at 3.5 months and pretty much until now, at 5 months, our schedule is roughly:
7:30-8:30-- wake up, nurse
1 hour after wake up, nap (that means she pretty much gets up, change diaper, eat, snuggle for a few minutes, back down). First nap is usually 1-2 hours long.
After that, it's pretty much a cycle of wake up, eat, nap, with her wake times being around 1.5 hours, sometimes more or less depending how long the naps were. Most days it's 2-3 naps, of about 4 hours total combined.
Bedtime is between 7 and 8, depending what time she woke up from the last nap. She still wakes up at least once most nights, usually more.

We have only recently been doing the eat part at the beginning of the wake cycle, before that, I agree with you, I felt like she was waking up because she was hungry.

We also did sleep training for falling asleep, at 3.5 months for bedtime, and 4 months for nap time. Nursing to sleep stopped working before that so we didn't have a lot of options.

I'm realizing this is why gonig back to work at only 12 weeks is too early, because now I have no control over daytime sleep and when I get home from work DS usually falls asleep in my arms!

He sleeps great at night (thank goodness) but fights naps during the day. He will only take short 20-30 minute naps and loses it if we try to put him in his crib. Our nanny thinks he's teething, but I really need to work with her on getting him to nap. I think she just kind of lets him do whatever and doesn't try to put him down.

@MrsStormy: Her naps didn't start getting longer until we taught her to fall asleep on her own (which involved CIO). I tried forcing them to be longer but she would get so upset, so I accepted the 38 minute nap, and as she got used to falling asleep on her own, the naps started getting longer naturally, after 4 months. She will still take a 38 minute nap sometimes, but it's becoming the exception, not that norm. And sometimes she will wake up, yell, roll around for a few minutes, and go back to sleep.