After months of wearing DS for naps because he couldn't sleep for more than 35 min in the crib I nap trained him at 7.5 months (took 1 day!) and he was getting in good long naps. Now at 8.5 months, I have been struggling with his afternoon nap.

With his first nap, he will be asleep within 2.5 hours and will sleep a little over 1.5 hours. I'm still trying to figure out when to put him down for the second nap. He starts to yawn 2 hours after waking up but he will flop around the crib for 20 minutes and then only sleep for 35 min. So I tried 2.5 hours, same thing. 3 hours, same thing, sometimes he won't even sleep. I will them end up putting him in the ergo 90 minutes later for a third nap.

The first week or so after nap training I was able to get him down for 2 naps because he napped for so long, but now I wonder if I should have him on 3 naps and shorten his awake time to 2 hours between naps? Any advice?