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[quote=Anonymous]I followed an adapted "Good Night, Sleep Tight" Kim West with my son who would wake up 6-8 times per night.  Instead of the 2.5 weeks it was supposed to take, it took 2.5 months.  It is all about helping your child self calm. So you need to start using the same words to help her self calm. 
(I started at 14 months).

We never got the nap working given that method, just used motion to get the nap to happen. But my son learned to calm himself. I used words like "We are sleeping."  "You need to stay calm or mommy is going to have to leave".  If he was calm while I say in his room, I would say.  You are doing a good job staying calm."  I would read this book, it has solutions for ages up to age 5.  You will probably have to adapt some, but the most important thing is that you teach your child to self calm.  Everyone wakes up in the middle of the night, the key is to learn to calm yourself and go back to sleep.

As for a sleep study, my child has had that too.  I didn't think he would get to sleep with all the stuff hanging out of his body, but he did around 9:00 pm and slept for a few hours and woke up.  I was able to snuggle with him in his bed and get him back to sleep after about an hour.  I think if I had gotten in his bed earlier, it wouldn't have taken so long. My child had a sleep study because of his adenoids, not because he woke up multiple times per night.

We also work on self calming during the day.  If my child is upset, he needs to go to his room and calm himself. I'm not talking making a child self calm when he is hurt or sick, but if he got upset because I put the wrong something on or whatever he really wanted.  [/quote]

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