@Nazneen – Thank you for reading and for sharing with us! Great news that your little girl is sleeping well during the night! 🙂 Nap training can be quite different from night time training and frequently has different results. Generally, being consistent in your approach to nap training as she learns will help her learn what you expect from her for nap sleep. Once she’s learned what you expect, it may be easier to modify how she sleeps during the day from one nap to the next. Hope this helps, Nazneen. Hang in there!

Hi @Monica – Thank you for writing to us! Congrats on making progress on your daughter’s night sleep! It sounds like you have been working so hard for so long, and I completely know how exhausting this is, but do know that you have made progress, and you can get there with naps too! Naps can be tougher, so hang in there! Regarding whether to keep working on naps now or to wait until you are back from your travels, this really depends on you! You can certainly wait if you are “hanging in there” with things the way they are now, but it sounds like you are just about at the end of your rope, and you may want to work on naps now before you go! You should be able to see progress in the next couple of weeks, and just keep on offering those naps and choose what type of sleep coaching you would like to do/what works best for you.
If you would like more help with her schedule and nap training, and nights too if they do not smooth all the way out, we are here and have wonderful consultants waiting to support you through this!
Hang in there Monica, and contact us if you need assistance!

Hi @Kim – Thank you for writing and I am sorry to hear that you are having a tough time co-sleeping with your baby. We help so many families to transition their baby to their own sleep space, and work on this gently to limit tears. Unfortunately, we cannot predict a specific time frame for each baby, because progress is so heavily dependent on your baby’s personality and your implementation or plans too.
We are also not able to accurately predict how your baby might react to the changes made. I can tell you that generally, the gentler methods (no-cry) can take longer than methods that involve crying (Ferber style methods), but all sleep training can take anywhere from a couple of days to a month or more.
If you would like one on one help with this, your consultant can create a holistic plan for you that you can feel great about!
You can read about all of our sleep consultation packages here if interested: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-toddler-sleep-consulting-services
Good luck Kim and hang in there!

Hi @Mark, thank you for stopping by the Baby Sleep Site and I apologize you are frustrated. It can be super difficult with these topics because all babies truly are different and respond to the same thing like night and day. We try to provide some guidelines on our site to give parents a starting point and for some it is specific enough to get them all the way to a better night or daytime sleep! Other families do need more information and support, and we understand that which is why we offer so many other resources. If you are interested in downloading a free guide on nap help, please feel free to sign up to receive the guide here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/free-baby-nap-guide/
We also have a variety of ebooks, audio recordings, and offer personalized sleep coaching on our site to give parents whatever level of information they are looking for. If you are stuck with your child’s naps or any other area of sleep and want to work with us, we would love to have you. Feel free to contact us at contact@babysleepsite.com at anytime.
I hope this helps provide some clarity and I apologize again if you are frustrated.

Hi @Carol, thanks for using the Baby Sleep Site as a resource for helping your daughter nap. We have a free guide available to download with information on getting you started on improving your daughter’s naps. To access the free guide, please sign up here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/free-baby-nap-guide/
If you need more help beyond the free guide, we have an ebook all about naps that goes more in depth to help lengthening her naps and getting her on an age appropriate schedule. Here is a link for more information on that: https://www.babysleepsite.com/mastering-naps/
I hope this helps and you seen an improvement soon!

Nights are great, she sleeps 8:30/9pm to 8am with 1 MOTN wake/feeding, and she wakes in the morning happy & smiling. She does get rocked or nursed to sleep at night.

Naps have always been 30-45mins for her, and in the recent week or so, even shorter and harder to put her down. She always cries upon waking from a nap.

We have the same nap routine when at home: change diaper, put in sleep sack, close curtains, white noise, and hold her and pat until she gets drowsy, then down in crib. Except now as soon as I put her down, she cries.

I’ve tried different awake times…1h30, 1h45, 2h…I’ve tried getting her down at first signs (she gets glazed eyes/stares into space)…I’ve tried leaving her in her crib awake, and for about 5 minites she’ll whimper off and on…then escalate to screaming (I get her when it escalates…I can’t leave her crying like that). I’ve tried consoling her when she’s in the crib and it doesn’t work, makes her cry more…..none of this seems to be on the mark.

However, these past few days she will nap for 45mins+ if I am holding her or she’s in the swing…and I had to resort to doing this so she’d get adequate sleep and not be a cranky mess.

Several days a week she will take her morning nap in the car while I’m out on errands or moms group, could this impact napping at home?

It’s obvious she can’t get herself to sleep or back to sleep after waking from a cycle…and has sleep crutches, and I’m not sure where to start helping her learn to nap independently. Thank you for any advice!