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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I vote confusing. I think consistency is really important when sleep training, and I don't think naps and nights are as separate as you think.

The language barrier is stressful, but I think it's time to take a half hour and start fresh. Walk her through the fact that you're sleep training, you're goals (to have the baby go to sleep independently and take two naps of at least an hour a day), and what steps you'd like her to take during the day. I think particularly with a language barrier, you might try to get your point across verbally, in writing, and in action if possible. So, start with verbally walking her through it. Encourage questions. Do you have book that you're working off of? Could you maybe flag some key pages and give them to her to read? Or write down the details of your routine (with guidelines of what to do when) and give her basically a one-pager? Especially with a language barrier, sometimes having both a spoken and written option can help bridge that gap. And then maybe have her watch you do the routine one day?

This is a hill I would die on, but I'm alllllll about baby sleep. [/quote]

PP here - I also think it would be best to have this conversation on a Friday, then hit it hard over the weekend, so she's jumping in on day three of intense nap training on Monday, rather than day 1. You do want to minimize the crying she has to deal with. You might even want to even take a couple days off to get a longer stretch of time where you can do it. [/quote]

Or maybe she can take time off during nap and put baby down and show nanny how she wants to do it. Innoway both to train the nanny and sleep train the baby. [/quote]

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