Struggling with my babies sleep schedule.

[Boymumma24]

Hi all, this is my first post so bare with me…

my DS is almost 10 months old and I’ve been really struggling to get him into a routine but I have to go back to work in a few weeks and need help!

He goes down to sleep (in his cot, independently) at 7pm and will generally sleep through until anywhere between 6/7pm. I let him wake up naturally unless it gets to 7am and he’s not awake still.

I have no idea what I’m going wrong from there. He only naps for 30 mins at a time and he usually has 3 naps a day. He wakes up crying and I can’t settle him back down. His wake windows are currently 3hs.

thanks in advance for any guidance

I think maybe moving to 2 naps at this age? If his wake windows were longer then he might be able to nap longer. I think 3 hours is fairly normal for the first one but the others should be more like 3.5 then 3.5 or 4. My baby is almost 11 months but has been on 2 naps for several months and currently doing 3.25 hours then 3.75 then at least 4.25

I definitely agree about 2 naps. Mine went onto 2 naps from about 7/8 months. If I remember correctly our schedule would be roughly wake at 7ish, nap for 1 hour from 10-11 (sometimes less if I had something on in the morning), an then another hour nap 2-3 and then bed for normally 7-7.30pm.