My dd is five months and I'm struggling to implement any kind of napping routine. She had previously been sleeping a good 11-12 hours through the night but more recently she has been waking earlier (with terrible wind which I think may be caused by teething). She tends to go back down for a 30 min nap, wakes up and then fights tiredness until her mid morning feed. She's out of sorts in general due to teething but getting her to nap is a real struggle and she becomes so over tired. She eventually crashes out on me after pacing/rocking. I've tried encouraging her to sleep in the cot upstairs (she's not yet in this on a night but planning to move her to her own room at 6 months so thought it would be good to get her used to sleeping here) but it takes an age for her to settle. Unless she's sleeping on me she has a very short nap and inevitability wakes - I try to settle her back down where she is (cot/buggy) but she won't go back off. I feel like she's recently regressed to a degree in that she needs to be constantly held and is spending lots of time in the sling. She spends all day fighting naps then falls asleep late afternoon for roughly three hours which is too near to bed time!! Part of the trouble is we have different activities on each day and it feels near impossible to establish a schedule that is flexible enough to allow us to go out! She appears to be too overstimulated to sleep on the buggy or sling when out. I just feel we're a bit all over the place at the moment and we're both crying out for some routine. Does any one have any hints and tips for trying to establish a not too rigid sleeping/feeding schedule? She currently has 4 feeds a day roughly 4 hours apart but the timing of these depends on her initial waking time. I'm not sure how many hours of awake time I should expect at this age? She previously went off to sleep at night very easily in her crib but that is also a challenge now. I'm wondering if I should be shifting her night time routine earlier or trying to settle her back to sleep when she wakes super early? I'm conscious of how to fit in her tea/mine and DH tea and a night time schedule once she is weaning for tea time meals. I feel I should try and get a grip on things now before weaning and moving to her own room are added in to the mix. Sorry for the rambled post, any advice would be much appreciated.