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At 6 months my LO was just starting to transition to 2 naps, but it took a good 2 months before she was strictly on 2 naps. Here is what I would suggest:

7am- Wake up
9:00am- Nap 1, for hopefully 1- 1 1/2 hours
1:00pm- Nap 2, for hopefully 1- 1 1/2 hours
5:00pm- Nap 3, short cat nap for 30 minutes
7:30pm- bedtime

My LO dropped the short cat nap around 7/8 months I believe? And then we just put her to bed earlier (6ish) and spread out the time between her naps.

My LO just turned 7 months old, but here's what his nap schedule looked like a month ago (lately he's been fighting me on that first nap and sometimes skipping it.)

7am - Wake up for the day
9am - Go down for a short nap, typically just 45 minutes or an hour.
12pm - Long nap, sleeps until 2:30ish
5 or 5:30pm - Another short nap
8pm - bedtime (sometimes 7:30 depending on how that last nap went.)

When my LO was 6 months it was similar wake up/night down and we did nap between 9:30-10 & 1:30ish.

@Revel: Once my son really got on the schedule his naps all lengthened except the last one. That was always a cat nap, but it really helped him and it gave me a chance to get dinner ready

@Revel: yes, still in the land of crappy daycare naps. the "schedule" i talked about was obviously for weekends. on weekdays it was much more regular! one 30-minute nap around 12pm and ta-da! that's it! anyway, i have a very good feeling you'll be able to get her on a schedule--fingers crossed!

If you think she's ready to move to 2 naps, you can try either the 2-3-4 schedule or pick 2 times, like 9am and 2pm, and have her nap then. At that age, my LO was still on 3 naps though--I think til about 7 months or so. his naps lengthened around 6.5/7 months o their own.

My LO is 5 months and we have 2 long naps and 1 cat nap. I did a light version of nap training right after 3 months. Nap training for me meant 1)introducing a nap routine 2) tightening up her schedule and no more naps out and about 3) letting her fuss for 5-10 minutes if it didn't progress to crying to get her over the 45 minute nap hump. As in, if she woke up after only 45 minutes, I would just let her fuss a few minutes until she went back to sleep. I only had to go back in to pick her up 3-4 times on different days and then she started just sleeping through.

So if wakeup is 7:

1st nap at 8:30 (sleep 1.5-2 hours)
awake from 10:30-12:30
2nd nap at 12:30 (sleep 1.5-2 hours)
awake from 2:30-4:30
3rd nap at 4:30 (sleep 30 min)
awake from 5-7
bedtime routine at 7, asleep by 7:30 pm

My twins are 6.5 months and we've been doing a loose version of 2-3-4 and it usually works well (of course, today I've only gotten two 45 min naps out of DS but DD 1.5 hours this am and is coming up on 2 hours now!). A typical schedule looks like:
6:00 am wake-up (kill me now, please)
8:30 am nap
10:30 am awake
1:30 pm nap
3:00 awake
6:30-7:00 pm bedtime