Naps and sleep time!

Hi! I was wondering if someone could give me a bed time routine that isn’t bath bottle bed! It’s not working for me😭 I need some help! She also is so hard to get down but I think that’s why then for napping do I just put her down or do I start a routine with that too so she knows it’s time for a nap? If so any suggestions would be so grateful! First time mum so I’m literally clueless😢

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My baby naps between 11 and 1 then has tea, bath, playtime, story, a dance, boobs and sleep around 7-8pm

We’ve just been winging it. Bath boob and bed didn’t work for us so now we go crazy before bed, let him have lots of fun and laughs, practice skills etc. then he’s tired and goes to sleep. For naps, we never bothered with a routine, in the beginning though I’d do more gentle activities. I’d give him different textures to feel so he’d wind down a little bit more before a nap.
Now at 7 months we’re on a 2 nap schedule, nap from 10-11:30 then another nap from 3-4:30 then bed time at 8:30

I never follow a routine for naps he just goes down when he’s tired but I have started putting him upstairs in his cot for a nap and it seems to be working much better to get him to go to sleep on a night too as it’s no different for him from during the day! We have a longggg play at around 6:30 then at 7/7:30 he will have a good massage and a slight bit of tummy time in the bedroom which gets him super sleepy, he goes in his pjs and sleep bag and then bottle at 8 with some lullabies playing quietly in the background, the room is completely dark apart from his pink light machine which has a subtle glow and plays white noise and then we have a little cuddle till he’s almost asleep but not fully where I transfer him to his next to me… I lay him on his side with his comforter right by his face, I tap his bum constantly while I slowly roll him over to his back, by the time he’s on his back he’s fast asleep and will be asleep for 8 hours xx

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