Sleep routine

Advice please!!
Is anyone else feeling like they are putting too much pressure on a sleep routine?
My baby has a bath every night (he loves them) I aim to get him down for 7-7.30 every night however, he eats when he’s hungry and naps when he’s tired. For example this evening he was so tired at 5.30 but I’ve tried to keep him awake so he’s still in his bath bed and sleep routine. Meaning he’s gone to sleep overtired and waking every 10 minutes.
Should I just follow him? Let him nap when he wants and then just slightly push back bed time if necessary?

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Maybe try and bring bedtime forward, my little boy goes to bed sometimes at 6pm if he’s tired. So we just bring bedtime routine forward

What time is your last nap? Could you give them a quick cat nap about 5pm for 20/30mins so they still have a 2 hour wake window before bed?

We had this exact thing this evening! Baby napped right up until bedtime! 😬 I didn’t know whether to wake him or not but I decided to leave him. He woke up just before his usual bath time and I was so worried he wouldn’t be tired for bedtime - but he’s gone down as usual!

We used to have a full routine for the whole wake window but I noticed it was just making her sleep off, so now our only routine is that after about two hours or so we go to bed I get her changed, fresh nappy, and then I tell her it’s bedtime and sing twinkle twinkle, with white noise, all while feeding her. and it is working much better. Our bedtime can be anywhere from 6.30-8.30pm depending on the day and her previous nap times x

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