Thanks for your advice - it was
really nice to see that someone had got back to me. I
was wondering if I should leave him to have a longer nap on the CN - he definitely would sleep longer as this nap falls at teatime for DS1 so he is always in the sling because I am busy cooking dinner and eating etc [and he doesnt self settle for naps at all yet

so I don’t have time at this part of the day to do it] - I normally wake him after 45mins ish to keep it as a CN...but if I don’t then it becomes a proper nap rather than a cat nap as is often advised so I wasn’t sure if I should - because that puts him at 4 full naps per day.
Today he was up at 5:50/6am WU - so, again, an hour earlier than he used to (defo linked to him dropping a NF), but I was this time unable to keep him going with any AP... so we will be on earlier timings - because of this I had intended to let him extend his CN today, and push some of his feeds further back to 3.5hrs if I can (I’m fairly certain this will be possible as he’s never screaming for a feed after 3 hours and goes 3.5-4hrs in the night), to try and keep him to his normal BT. Perhaps his day needs to be 6am-7pm, with 4 full naps? With some feeds 3hours and other 3.5? But I’m not really sure how this would look as EASY?

Especially with a serial catnapper who doesn’t self settle and the school runs to fit in! Any ideas on something to try??