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I set a 30 min limit on trying before we take a break and try again later.

We dropped to two naps between 6 and 7 months. During that time we would play it by ear and it depended a lot on when he woke up. Now, regardless of when he wakes up we try and get him down for 9, and he will usually sleep 2 hours, then we keep him up minimum 3 hours unless he seems exhausted...so he goes down for his second nap between 130 and 230, and usually sleeps til 4. Then he's up for 3 hours before bed. I will say, his naps didn't start lengthening beyond 45 minutes until we sleep trained at night and he learned to put himself to sleep. On the rare occasion where I nurse him down now (only if its been too long since he had food last), he will only sleep 45 minutes. I think my son is crazy about sleep associations though, he can never stay asleep through more than one sleep cycle if he's been rocked or nursed to sleep.
Good luck!! Hope you get to having more of a schedule soon!

@fussygal: 30 minutes ... Our doctor said an hour, but I don't have that much time! We are still on 3 naps per day at 10 months. 1st and 2nd naps are 1.5-2 hours each, and her last nap is 30-45 min.

Our max wake time at 7 months was 2 hours. Sleep scheduling was more effective than sleep training ... or I guess, it was just seemed like the most important part of sleep training. Up at 7, max wake time is 2.5 hours, max sleep time per nap is 2 hours. Repeat.

I stopped trying anymore. He naps where and when he feels like it and I just let him get away with it lol.

@fussygal: I think she dropped to two around 6 mo, but I sometimes had to work in a late afternoon catnap.

Sounds like she may be ready to drop a nap, DS dropped to 2 just before 6mo (which I think is a tad early - he has pretty low sleep needs), and it became so much easier to get him down. Once he was settled into a routine I never had to give up on getting him down for a nap as he knew it was time to sleep even if he fought it - but if he wakes really early from the nap I will try no more than 15 mins to get him back down, for both our sanity!