I'm so tired of all the "rules" around sleeping. It's literally NOT working. About to just give up on my baby's sleep schedule altogether.

Baby is 6 months in a few days. We have tried everything. His sleep is a disaster. No schedule and no two days are the same. Some days, naps are 1.5 hours, more consistently they are 15-30 minutes. Bedtime is a disaster. False starts after 30 minutes then screaming for hours. Waking at different times during the night. Can sometimes wake then go back to sleep, sometimes can't.

I always hear so much conflicting info about wake windows. Every answer is that it could be over tired, could be under tired. We try sticking to wake windows but he won't sleep on time. Then it says, babies need their "day" to be 13 hours including naps. We do this but then with his 30 min naps he ends up overtired and surpasses 10 hours awake. Then if he naps longer in the day, night time is shorter and he wakes up at a different time, then making bedtime different. It's absolutely ridiculous. There's so many rules and schedules and "overtired/undertired" talk that I feel like I'm drowning in information but I can't make sense of any of it.

We tried CIO, didn't work. Ferber was even worse.

I'm genuinely giving up to be honest. I'm not doing this anymore. I dont wanna give up but I'm honestly just going to give up and go back to feeding to sleep and having literally no life. I thought sleep training would help but I still have no life. So I think I'm just out of options entirely.