I have formulated a cunning plan to save my sanity...any experts out there to take a look?

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Well it's not that cunning as it.goes but.I have to do something soon or I'll go mad.

DS is just 6 months and is chronically overtired. From about 6 weeks he stopped doing any napping without lots of help and no naps of longer than 30 mins. We're now down to 15-20 min naps at best, and his nighttime sleep had previously been good, with just one or two wake ups. He's now waking every hour, he's taking 2 hrs to drop off into a proper deep sleep and we're all shattered.
I need to get him into a routine and I have to get him sleeping more during the day.

So this is my idea of a routine:

7am wake, feed.
8 am breakfast
9:30 nap, once back from school run. Can be earlier, usually only 30 mins and use.sling or buggy for this if I have to.
10:30 feed
12. Sleep. For the moment, feed to sleep and rest whilst he does. Today I'm stuck on the bed with him sleeping on me but hrs done nearly an hour like this, hurrah!
1:30 baby group etc, swimming, bouncer, lunch, anything to get him tired out
3pm sleep, 30 mins of I can, either on school run or fed to sleep after.
Dinner at 5, bath with lavender etc, massage, bed by 6 so I can spend time with dd. Feed to sleep of necessary but try to lay him down in cot.
Dream feed with bottle at 10/11

Eventually try to stop feeding to sleep, not bothered.about sling or.buggy but I get.nothing done when I'm stuck with a baby asleep on my boob! Although he's y.last baby so I love it sometimes

I'm just going to really focus on this for 2 weeks, getting him 2 hrs during the day regardless.of how I do it, then try to see where we are.with the nights.

Does this sound ok? I've tried looking at other routines but they allow for babies who sleep for proper naps. Not power naps!

I'm not going to do cio or anything like that but I wonder if once I get his sleeping during the day better, it might improve the nights? I don't think I've had more than a 2 hr stretch of sleep in over 2 months, it's turning me into a monster and im not enjoying my lovely boy.

Apologies for typos, one thumb typing...

looks good to me

6 month olds vary hugely and some need 2,3 or even 4 naps.

i always found my babies slept better at night when they slept enough in the day

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This!

Yep, point taken, definitely will be flexible about it but currently were just all over the place and I need to feel like I'm doing something to help him. I don't want to be tied to.a routine and for a while I just gave up, got on with our day and let.him catnap, but it's got ridiculous now, he's so tired by 5pm he's sobbing and whacking himself in the face from overtiredness.
I would like him to have another later catnap and a later bedtime so dh can see him but for now I rhink.I just need to get him doing 2 hrs a day minimum. Then maybe I can deal with the when and how he sleeps? Or should I be trying to set him up to fall.asleep alone from the get go?

You don't say what his sleep is like now in the daytime, but I assume it is bad. So on the assumption that he was getting no (or very little) daytime sleep previously then the mantra of "Any sleep. Any how. Anywhere" is what I would recommend first of all.

Just get him having sleeps as often as possible (the more frequent the better) and as long as possible - however you can get that.

Then later have a view to work out more of a routine and good going to sleep habits. Firstly though, eliminate baby exhaustion by really focusing on getting him to sleep - any sleep, any how, anywhere.

Yep FATE it's shocking in the day, 20 min naps and nowhere near enough of them. I do everything I can but he just doesn't drop off. I am thinking if I can try to set times I will lay down with him or have him in the sling then I can get him into the habit of sleeping longer.
Miraculously he did 40 mins this am, 1.15 on me with boob in mouth at lunchtime and another 40 mins in sling. However I started bath etc at 5:45 and he was still attached to me thrashing about and not asleep 5 mins ago. Just put him down and we'll see how long before he stirs, usually multiple times before midnight.
His sleep was great before about 5 weeks ago, he even slept through one night and used to do a solid 6 hr stretch. We Co sleep and have a bedside cot, not sure if it's helping but I can't face the thought of getting up to sit in another room to feed 8 times a night. Plus he would have to share with dd, 5 so it's not ideal.