Do we get randomly split? And how will I find my group? There are some of you here that I want to spend the time with, we should have been given a vote on a poll or something as to which group you choose . I guess our group was big after all.

I've given up for the time being on the settling thing. He started getting tearful when I walked into the room or if I said naptime. That's not the reaction I was looking for. He isn't used to sleeping alone so I have to take this really slowly. Ho hum. So this is what a day will look like if I relax about it:

7.30am - up
8.30am - sling nap
9.30/10am - up
11/11.30am - cot nap (goes in awake, but is so tired, just passes out without fuss)
12noon - wake (AUGH!)
1pm - nap (in cot if he'll take it, if not, on me somehow)

if he napped on me then it's at least a one hour nap, if not, it's another half hour nap

Then that nap is repeated for third nap (split into two half hours or a full nap on me).
4/5pm - nap in sling
5/6pm - bedtime routine
7ish - DH bounces to sleep

So all naps, unless they are taken on me (sling or laying in hammock with me) are half an hour, then he wakes. Our night sleep is fine, he sleeps and wakes to feed as he should for his age but his daytime is just one long dragging mess. He grizzles after half an hour awake, I still think that's too soon for his age, and if I put him down then, it takes ages to get him to sleep so I can't seem to pick his tired signs. I've researched the pants off tired signs, I KNOW what to look for - I just can't seem to see them in him, or if I do, it means nothing to his settling.