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I have a just-turned-1yo so I remember his 6 month schedule well. My 4yo was about the same at 6 months so at least for us it’s been consistent.

6:30/7am wakeup (But we don’t get them till 7am)
8/8:15-9:30/10am Nap 1
11:15/30-1/1:30 Nap 2
3/3:30-4:30 Nap 3
6:30 Bedtime

Slept 11-12 Hours no wakeups

Two options I downloaded from babysleepsite.com and never tried to use

@bhbee: a couple things you said reminded me.
Agree that 3 naps is good at this age. Some are on 2 but I don’t actually know any. We didn’t move to 2 naps till 8mo for my oldest and 10mo for my current baby! But he was hovering between 2-3 for a month or two.

And agree with a super early bedtime on bad nap days. It feels weird to do 5:30 bedtime but every time he still slept till 6:30.

DS is not quite 6 months but we are still on 4 naps most days because he also tends to do short naps no matter the awake times we try. We are working on routines and drowsy but awake as nighttime wake ups have gotten out of control. 2-3 per night ugh. I’ve been reading some sleep training resources and we tried a bit of CIO but I think we/he isn’t ready.

Usually he wakes at like 6/6:30 and first nap is 1.5 hrs from that. Naps can range from 30 mins to 1.5 or 2 hrs, it’s all over the map. We do 2 hrs of awake time after the first nap. Bedtime is by 7pm. Today he woke at 7, napped 8:45-10:30 (amazing!), napped 12:45-2:30 (double amazing!) and 4:15-5 and will go to bed at 7. Those naps aren’t typical and we are still working on it. He throws in days of one long nap usually, but then the next he’s back to 4 45 minute naps. It’s a bit frustrating because we would love a more concrete schedule and to go reliably down to 3 naps...but bedtime at 5 or 5:30 isn’t feasible for us right now.

All the sleep training stuff has these great schedules but what if your kid is an unreliable napper?! Then it screws up the whole rest of the day.