Naps

How do you fit only two naps in?? My son usually wakes up between 7-8 he usually wants his first naps around 10-11. I try to let him sleep a hour and a half but it’s impossible his body just wakes up after an hour so he’s usually waking up around 11-12 depending on what time he falls asleep. I try not to let him nap past 5 so realistically he would need to stay up all the way until 4 to do that but he does not last 🙃 he can only last about 2.5 max 3 hours… I try to keep him entertained but after a while it gets hard… I’ve always struggled with sleep even with 3 naps it felt like I could never fit in 3 to match his wake windows so that’s why I started two naps but now it seems like he can’t stay awake that long of a stretch… I feel like my goal was to have him nap around 11 wake up at 12:30 and then go back down at 3:30 and nap until 4:30-5 so he could get the 3 hours of day sleep in but that’s definitely not gonna happen lol. Maybe someone could layout there daily routine? Sometimes I feel like I’m doing his schedule so wrong and that’s why I keep running into sleep issues😕

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my son wakes up between 7-8, i try to not let him go down until 11:30, he will wake up at 1-1:30 (sometimes longer). then we play and keep him distracted he will sometimes take a short nap around 3:30ish, but no longer than 45 minutes! then wake up, play, and feed solids at 5:30, bath at 6-6:15, then start bedtime routine qt 6:45. he will normally start nursing to sleep at about 7:45!
i try not to stress too much! if its office by 30 minutes it's off! but normally thats our schedule! since starting that he sleeps through the night or only wakes up once

For us, my baby is up between 6:30 and 7, her first nap is between 8:30 and 9, then up around 10 and 10:30, back down around 12- 12:30 up around 1:30. Her last nap usually falls between 3:45 and 4 pm and I just make sure she's up by 5 and then her bedtime is at 7. If things run over because later wake up or later naps, I just let her catnap for 30 minutes or so to still be up by 5 and in bed at 7

I’m struggling as well. My daughrrr usually goes down about 830/9. Wakes around 9, but with protest and would rather sleep longer until like 10/11.. then she wants to nap after an hr and a half! But only naps 45 mins at most

So yesterday we did this. Wake@9am nap 11am-1145, play 1145-2:55 lay down . Sleep @3:05-4:30 bedtime @ 9. It took her awhile to settle for bed so we need to fine tune it. I tried putting her to bed about 8:15 but I think she needed to be starting to be put in her crib about 7:55/8. Because I’m trying to make her schedule 8-8 as she sleeps better in the night. But she only woke 2x tonight which wasn’t terrible

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