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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By 8 weeks, I recall Eat-Wake-Sleep PLUS a fixed “start” to the day, as much as possible (I.e. first feed at 7am, even if waking baby up early from sleep) really helped. The latter seemed to do the most to bring predictability to the days (huge for my mental well being!). Once that was established, we naturally fell into a schedule. Did this with #2, didn’t with #1.[/quote]

OP here. We have him on a strict wake up every morning. He takes good morning naps but the afternoon can be harder. He has a strict bedtime routine.

A typical day. Everyday is a little different when it comes for he afternoon. He sleeps by himself for the morning naps but I hold him for the afternoon naps. He is combo fed and gets a two bottles of formula a day.

7am - Wake up, eat
8-9:30 - nap, eat 
10-45 - 12 - nap, eat 
1:15-2 - nap, eat 
3:15-4- nap, eat
5:30-6 - nap, eat 
7:30 - Eat
8- bedtime. Wakes up around 4 for a feeding. Sometimes will wake up around 1 to eat. [/quote]

All of you are doing really  great!  Just a few tweaks you may want to consider or ignore.

When he is awake is it just eating time? If so he might benefit from a little playtime, especially in the afternoons between 1:15 and 4.

As for schedule, it seems he more or less settled into a sort of a schedule, so there's nothing wrong with putting him down for his naps at the same time every day just like you do for bedtime, sort of establish a naptime routine, do the nap routine and let him be, now if he's fussy or crying obviously you've got to hold him.

so 
7:00 Feed'
7:45 Play
8:15 Nap
Cargegiver takes a break  or does whatever they need to do
10:00 get baby up from nap if not already awake and feed
10:45 play
11:15 nap
Caregiver takes a break or does whatever chores they need
1:00 get baby up from nap if not already awake and feed
1:45 play 
2:15 nap
Cargegiver takes a break  or does whatever they need to do
4:00 get baby up from nap and feed
4L45 play
Cargegiver takes a break  or does whatever they need to do
6:00 feed
7:00 bedtime routine
7:30 feed
8:00 feed

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OP here. He can’t stay up from 4-7. He only stays up for a max of two hours at night from 6-8. [/quote]

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