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Our naps were all over the place at that age...like you say, it was impossible to plan to do something at a certain time because I never knew if she would be awake or not! Things got much more predictable at 6 months when she dropped to 2 naps. Regardless of everything else, we stuck to her 7pm bedtime.

At that age, our naps were based completely on when he woke up. And bedtime ranged from 6:30 to 7:30, depending on his nap, but 7:30 was a hard-stop bedtime, regardless of his wakeup!

And they do get more consistent as they get older and start dropping naps.

My LO hasn't gotten any more consistent and she's 10 months! I think some babies just aren't great nappers. She usually wants a nap about 2 hours after she wakes up when she's home, and another sometime in the early-mid afternoon, but no set times. At daycare, it's all over the place and a couple 20-40 minute naps per day is the norm. I'm hoping when she moves out of the infant room and all the kids nap at the same time, she might do better...she's just too worried about missing something to sleep!

We followed the 2-3-4 schedule from about 6-12 months. It really helped!

We were very similar at that age. Plans got cancelled, postponed, etc. quite a lot. At 16 months she's got a great schedule going though. Up at 8, nap 1-3, bed at 7:30.

We're similarly irregular at 4.5mo! Naps and bedtimes are just happening whenever he seems sleepy, varying by an hour or two from one day to the next.

I was just reading a part in Weissbluth's 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child' where he basically says anything goes, don't even try to schedule till 4mo, and even then some babies aren't biologically ready for longer naps till 5-6mo. Bottom line I'm getting from him is not to worry unless your baby regularly seems overtired. So I'm not worrying!