I feel like I've failed my baby by not having a bedtime routine and I'm too tired to think about how to start putting one in place.
He wakes up between 0700 and 0730 like clockwork, but the times he falls asleep for the night vary wildly, especially since he's been recovering from a cold. He's awake now at eight at night! He has three naps a day, longest one an hour in the morning and then about 30-45 minutes for the other two. The last few nights putting him down has been a lottery of whether he'll sleep for 15 minutes or two hours.
We've transitioned him out of the next to me into a cot, but still in our room. I don't want to sleep train him, but I want to be able to give him a consistent routine so he can fall asleep at roughly the same time each night. I can cope with the night wakings, I just want to have a couple of hours to myself in the evening.
I don't want to particularly build in a bath to his routine as it's then such a pain if we go out and can't ensure he gets one. I don't mind if he goes to sleep around 2000 or 2030 so he gets a bit of time with husband in the evening
Sorry this is really garbled, but any advice (or telling off) is welcome.