I always say day napping is not a life skill and noone is going to ask them at a job interview if they went down regularly for a nap when they were a baby! Although saying that, i did read somewhere that baby routines for eating and sleeping only came about because when people started to work go factories etc in the industrial revolution that the factory owners were unhappy with their workers lack of discipline and bad time keeping because traditionally they had made their own loose routines based on nature and necessity when working on the land etc. So the powers that be in those times encouraged research etc into the benefits of strict routines for babies to make better, more compliant workers in the future. Now our culture is so ingrained with routine and clock watching we forget we are not part of the machine. But our babies remember! We should learn from them!
Nope, no set routine here either. My DD2 is 12 months old and I know she needs a sleep in the morning when she starts showing tired signs and the same deal in the afternoon. We fit food and feeding in around that. For my own sanity, my older two have a routine, but it works around DD2 and usually it means that I can get them all to sleep at the same time each day at least for an hour. Most days it works out, but every now and then, DD2 still throws me a curve ball and sleeps for 3 hours in the morning rather than her usual 1 to 1 and a half and I can't keep the older kids awake waiting for her to be ready for bed again because they are just too tired.
I think you are doing great! Six months is still very young and they are a bit all over the place with sleeping and eating. I think the main thing is that she is sleeping when she needs to for as long as she needs to and not getting overtired all the time. When or how that happens is not important as long as you are feeling okay with it all.
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