Hi.
DS2 has just gone 3 months.
Our daytime routine is all over the place due to varying wake up times (from 6 to 7 but closer to 6)
He generally has 1.5 hours awake time and is fed roughly 2.5 hourly (breast fed)
He self settles really well and has no sleep props.
He mostly naps for 40 minutes, with a few 50 minutes and the occasional 1 hour and then from time to time longer than these, but this isn't often and is generally only for 1 nap per day. Where it does happen it's often on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th nap of the day (yesterday it was actually the first - but that was after a night where he was up every 2 hours the night before so likely he was exhausted).
Generally night wakings have been just once a night between 3 and 4 (last feed around 6, bedtime around 6.30/7 depending on what time last nap fell), last night it was 12.30 and 4.30 (roughly), the night before it was 10.30, 12.30, 3, 5. I fed at 10.30 and 3, rocked back to sleep the other 2.
I really do think he needs more than 40 minutes at s time as he often looks tired well before bedtime and is wrecked for nighttime bedtime.
Today I tried to re-settle him after nap 2, with patting - no luck, he got too upset if I left him and tried rocking him till he was pretty much asleep and putting him down, he just woke and wouldn't go back to sleep. So I instead decided to hold him to help him get a little more sleep (he's asleep in my arms right now - took some work though, he was quite unsettled). Generally I don't try to resettle as he'd the same as DS1, as soon as he's awake he's wide awake and there's no hope of getting him back to sleep without some work (and even then I'd say the only way woul be via rocking back to sleep which isn't ideal) and weds to sun DS2 makes this impossible.
Any ideas or recommendations for the short naps?
Can A time change through the day? Ie start longer off the back off night time sleep and then shorten (off the back of cat naps!!) ?