To be honest, up to a point, i found that too much sleep in the day, as you would expect for anyone, made her wakeful in the night.

It's a balancing act - you don't ever want her to get to the utterly-exhausted-crying-and-distressed stage though lack of sleep, but you do want her to NEED to sleep at night. Luckily for me DD looks after this herself and has done since she was small.

If anything, i just paid attention to the days she slept well in the night and was cheerful during the day and gently encouraged that pattern on days when she seemed disrganised sleep-wise. For us, by the time DD was Natalie's age, that was first feed at 5am, up for the day at 7-8am, 1 hour nap after midmorning feed, 2 hour nap after mid afternoon feed, bedtime at 7.30pm ish, sometimes woke for a BF at midnight, but stopped waking at all when i put her on FF at 7 months. But the times aren't relevant - every baby is different. What is important is that if your DD usually seems to do fine and sleeps well at night on 2-3 40-60minute naps i would encourage that pattern.

DD has just moved from 1 nap to 2 and i was mystified during the precess as the nap she kept is at 11am!! This means she's up at 8am, has breakfast, a wee play (out to the library/bounce&ryhme or walk round the park if the weather's nice) then a 90-120 minute nap! Then she has lunch and goes the rest of the day fine and is ready to sleep 12 hours overnight! Wouldn't have thought it'd work but it does for her. VERY occasionally she also has a nap at 4pmish but if she does she won't sleep until 9pm.

HTH

Bec