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I started a parent-child led schedule right around 5.5 months. I began putting P down for a nap 90 minutes after her last waking but the "time" of her naps was dependent on how long she had previously napped/slept.

Until then I just nursed on demand and slept with her as much as I could, usually holding her since she had lots of feeding/tummy issues. =/

I promise it passes and while it seems like forever while you're in it when you look back in just a few months it will seem like so short and soooo long ago.

ETA: She's really fallen into her own easy schedule and has pretty much sleep & nap trained herself. We do still nurse on demand but that's spaced out to about 3 hours between feedings, sometimes before & sometimes after naps.

We started the 90min nap program around 4 months I think, but I def could have started sooner and made my life easier But like @runsyellowlites said, it's based on their last waking time instead of a set schedule. We also still feed on demand at 5.5 months. I think some kids are more receptive to schedules than others. My kids just weren't receptive to it, and since I'm a SAHM, I have no real reason to force it. We definitely have solid routines just not a clock based schedule.

I tried getting my LO on a schedule for the past seven months but she would change her wake, sleep, and breastfeeding times all the time. It wasn't until she turned 7 months that her sleep patterns suddenly became predictable enough to create a routine. So I would journal when they eat and sleep, to create a schedule that they can follow

we never really put LO on a schedule, he kind of fell into it on his own, and then its loosely based on ours too. but it definitely took a while - at 6 weeks it was (loosely) a 2 hour schedule; nap, feed, up for an hour(ish), nurse, nap.

I started a very basic schedule around 6 weeks...
Basically just deciding arbitrarily that bedtime was at 9 PM based off the fact that he was willing to sleep a long stretch around that time. But he didn't have real naps until around 3 months. Around that time his nighttime sleep fell apart so we had to really schedule. I am reading Weissbluth right now and I really wish I had gotten it before he was born, it really outlines perfectly how kids go from no rhythm to a set sked. We really tumbled into it. I wish I had done more to begin with for him to protect his sleep....

@Mrs. Sketchbook: I also started our only specific routine of the day:.bed time around 7/8

I didn't try to put DD on a schedule but she sort of made her own schedule around 8 weeks....and she still follows it now at 6 months old. In the newborn days, I made sure to feed her every three hours during the day (I never woke her at night to feed!) but around 8 weeks, she started feeding every two hours during the day and dropped all of her night feeds. She still follows that schedule now and it works well for us so I'm happy to continue letting LO dictate the schedule for now, within reason of course!

I didnt put C on one, she put herself on it. I let her tell me the times she wanted to do things and over time, I realized that she had developed her own pattern and schedule.

Maybe start logging feedings and sllep/wake times? You might start to notice a pattern.

We started doing the EASY schedule around 6 weeks. DD put herself on a bit of a schedule....more like routine rather than schedule. But of course it is subject to change as with everything

A is 9 weeks and she feeds and sleeps on demand but I try to structure her day as diaper change, feed, play, sleep and then start over - but really I follow her cues.