What is your 6 month old's nap / food schedule?

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Just out of interest? My boy was a month early so technically is only 5.5 months... He has no interest in food but I keep trying. Still on a difficult schedule of at least 4 naps a day then a late bedtime... I know every baby is different but just looking for some solidarity. Then he still wakes a few times a night to feed. EBF. Anyone in a similar boat? My daughter was eating 3 meals a day by this point and I think this helped her sleep really well. I'm not comparing them just thinking back...

My son is now 15 months but at 6 months we changed up his routine and had help from a sleep consultant. We tried giving him 3 naps but eventually ended up on 2 longer ones. I think what really helped was waking up at the same time everyday so then his naps would be at the same time. So we get him up at 6:30, then first nap was at 9am until about 10:30/11 and then the second nap was 1:30-3:30 and bedtime at 6:30ish. This has changed over the months since, naps have got shorter and bedtime a bit later etc. But it worked well for us all to know what timings things would happen at. We moved him to his own crib in his own room at the same time and that also helped his naps.
I’m pretty sure at 6 months we were just doing little tastes of food, not full meals yet. I think by about 9 months he was having 3 meals a day, but before that some days he’d refuse to try anything and other days he’d eat a fair bit of food. Just keep offering it and eventually he’ll show interest.

Thank you for the detailed reply. I just don't know how to cap / control / change his naps because when I try he's really grizzly... wake windows can be anything from 1.5 hours to 3 hours. If only we could drop the last nap at 8.30-9 pm we'd be laughing!

Sorry if this sounds obvious, but would 8.30/9pm not just be bedtime rather than a 4th nap? That's basically the time I take my (admittedly now 7 month old but it's been about that for months now) upstairs and start her bedtime routine. She mostly has three naps during the day with around 2 hours between the end of one nap and the start of a feed (EBF here too) before her next nap.

Her night time sleep has been pretty bad the last couple of months, far too many days where she didn't do more than 2 hours at a time, but now we've got her in her own room (which finally happened a few days ago due to one thing or another) we are finally getting some much better sleep! Still waking and being fed at least twice a night but if there's a 4 or 5 hour stretch in there and then a couple of 2 hour stretches I am delighted with that. We think our noises were waking her up in the night bless her, so her own room + baby monitor for speedy reactions is really helping. (Edited to add: plus she was getting far too big for her next-to-me crib, in her big cot she can stretch out without immediately hitting the side and potentially waking up!)

I'm not sure how solids are affecting it - she's keen to try and eat (we are doing baby led weaning so this doesn't necessarily mean she actually swallows a lot haha) but some of her best sleep days have been the days she didn't have any solids, so I don't think it's the silver bullet by any means! Good luck.

Thanks so much @Everythingwinniethepooh We tried to put him down at 8.30 but he just wakes up even in cot in dark room on his own with cues like sleep sack. However, yesterday the naps naturally shifted which meant he went down at 10pm instead of 11. I slept in another room so he couldn't smell me and despite waking up several times he didn't cry and went through until 4am 🙌 The night is darkest just before the dawn, as they say. Thanks for your response and advice.