I have a 6 week old ds2. When he was first born we kept him in the living room with us, sleeping, until we went to bed and then took him up with us. Then, a couple of weeks ago it became clear he just wanted to be somewhere dark and quiet to sleep, so I started coinciding his with DS1's bedtime (between 7 and 8). That seemed to work quite well, with lots of waking and feeding he'd sleep until 8ish in the morning. However, the last few days he's been more awake during the days, but he's tired much of the time, fighting sleep. I have him in the sling or in the buggy, whatever I can to get him off, but those days of long 3 hour naps seem to be over temporarily and he sleeps for an hour or so max before waking up, except when it gets to around 4.30/5 when he's desperately tired and would sleep at the drop of a hat. DS1 is starting school next week and we'll all have to be up by 7ish, so I've had it in my head that DS2 shouldn't nap after 5/5.30 so that he'll still go to bed at around 7 and have the chance of getting a good 12 hours (on and off with feeding etc). The last couple of days he's been so tired and upset about being tired that I've ended up putting him to bed at about 6.30. I feel mean seeing him so tired while I'm trying to keep him up until 'bedtime'. I'm just interested in opinions. Will trying to enforce this bit of routine pay off (I'm not doing a day routine, not am I worried about how often he wakes to feed)? I just think I'll be waking him up in the morning tired otherwise and rushing him out of the house...