Hi MN ladies,
You've always been so helpful to my worries and following your advice has always helped.
So at the moment my almost 9 month baby is still on three naps a day, which I'm fine with, problem is she is tired anywhere from one hour after her first nap of the day, same goes for the second nap. Was about 2hours then went down to 1.5 hours now she's showing obvious signs at 1hour. (I'm speaking to the doctor about this later as it's starting to worry me there might be something wrong 😢)
I'm in a very fortunate position where currently she's sleeping through at night, (after suffering months at the 4 month regression every night is a god send). However if we don't keep the naps going during the day she will be back to waking 3/4 times a night. Found that out the hard way.
So her signs are rubbing her eyes, yawning, but her early signs are looking distant and rubbing her nose and I try to get her up to bed by one of the early signs.
I have tried getting her up by one of the early signs.
Taking her up at the late tired signs &
Also stretching it out to two hours, what ever I do she screams if I put her to bed and refuses to sleep (apart from the first nap where she goes down pretty easily)
When she does eventually sleep it's out of exhaustion about 3-4 hrs after her first nap and it's only for 30-45 minuets (always a sign I've put her down over tired.
Am I reading these signs wrong, is she just bored and not tired at all?
I spoke to a HV and she said don't worry about her day time sleep 
which I can't do unfortunately as per the above.
Any advice would be massively appreciated?xx