My almost 10 month old sleeps great at night, put him in his cot after his bath/bottle/cuddle and he'll drift off himself between 7.30-7.45pm. Sleeps until 7am. Didn't do any sleep training, discovered he could do this by accident when he was 5 months-ish and I had to answer the doorbell as I was putting him to bed one night, put him down in the cot awake and by the time I'd come back he was asleep.
However his day time naps have always been ON myself or DH. He sleeps 9.30-10.30am and 2.30-3.30pm. We have tried putting him down the way we do at night, drowsy - he's a lot more wired/energetic; or putting him down asleep and he wakes after 20 min in a bad mood/still knackered that one of us will settle him back on us. We can get him off to sleep on us in 5-10 mins with the help of his dummy.
With the year its been we haven't exactly had to be many places! So it hasn't bothered us that whoever he is sleeping on is pinned to the sofa
for 2 x 1 hour slots each day. Especially as we feel very lucky he sleeps well at night. If it's me I'll read a few pages of my book/scroll through Mumsnet! I find it very relaxing.
Have we been silly to carry on like this? He's our only child so I feel if we had others we'd have less time to sit down/not use the time he is napping for chores etc. He's starting nursery in 4 weeks time when he'll be almost 11 months so will obviously need to learn how to nap there on the days he is in. But I feel if we start day time sleep training at home it might be too many changes in a short space of time?
Sorry this was longer than I intended it to be!