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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We tried sleep training for naps (and yes, I have since learned you’re supposed to do nights first). It was a dismal failure. Hours of crying for every nap for 3 days only to have her wake up 15-30 minutes later crying not refreshed like all the sleep training zealots claim happens. It also alerted her personality and made her fearful, clingy, and sad for weeks. Again, there are reasons I am not interested in sleep training for nights.[/quote]

I’m a NP here and I don’t want to pile on, OP. But, if it’s helpful, I found it absolutely impossible to sleep train for naps, even following books to the letter. My baby just cried and was miserable, and I gave up quickly. I did work on sleep training for nights after that and it was (sorry for the cringy pun) night and day difference. I did timed checks so she wouldn’t fee abandoned, and it probably took 2-3 nights total. Afterwards, she was calmer and happier after having better sleep at night. She never really figured out naps until she dropped to one nap a day sometime after 12/18 months.

Only you can decide what’s best for you and your family, and you should make your choices. But, I would caution against using the nap training experience as a proxy for how night sleep training would go. [/quote]

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