if she sleeps later in morning does she need an am nap?

[duvet]

dd is 6 months she sometimes doesn't wake til nearly 8am and i'm wondering if that is why she fights her nap sometimes, i try to put her down 2 hours later aned she will usually seem sleepy at the boob but as soon as i put her down she screams. some days i put mobile on and leave her 5 mins and she falls asleep other days she doesnt so i get her up again, it's confusing that the pattern varies when i do the same routine,so i can only think it may have something to do with the time she wakes? If she doesn;'t need it what time should i put her down if she wakes later?
I dont want to start waking herevery am at 7am, i did this with dd1 and it stressed me a bit plus dd1 doesn't wake so early these days , i need the sleep. please can anyone advise?

2 to 2 and a half hours between naps for a six month old is about right. I would leave her to settle for longer than 5 minutes if I were you. Try for 15 unless she's really upset. If she won't go down then, try and leave her a bit later and try again. At that age she should still need an afternoon nap. Tried to make sure my DD never slept later that 3:45pm, which suited her bedtime of 6:30pm.

Oh help I just tried again now to put her down for a sleep again I fed her she fell asleep /sleepy on boob as soon as i put her in cot she started yelling so picked up put back on, did same again afer 5 mins and she's yelling now maybe I'll try and wait 15 mins this time, I tried to avoid wrong sleep assoc, and at night I feed her she's often fully awake when I put her down and she's fine, happy and lies there and i leave and she drifts off - I don't understand.

she's gone quiet now, but i still appreciate some advise/encouragement.

Persevere. Try leaving for longer as I suggested. I think a five minute interval between checking doesn't give her the time to calm herself down before you are back trying again. I know 5 minutes seems like an eternity when they are crying, but she's seems to have settled now so hang in there. Where is she sleeping for her nap? Is it relatively dark?

Yes it's dark black out blind on window,I can hear stirring now - I'll hang on in the hope that she might sleep longer.

Duvet, I know how hard it is when their naps aren't working out and especially when they are short. I was lucky that with DD they sorted themselves out from 4 months. The day also seems so long when they won't sleep.

Thanks Jambot, I know with dd1 it did get better as time passed, guess I'm just having a bad day today, where's the chocolate!

That's the spirit?:)