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Would she ever nap if you lay down with her? Sometimes E will conk ou if we lay down with him, most other times we go to the living room and play toys and try a nap later.

Do you have a white noise machine for the maste bedroom? Earplugs?

I have a high sleep needs kid, so baby sleep always trumps adult sleep, because when baby doesn't sleep well everyone is miserable. He can always go lay down again while she is napping!

It's life. I am as quiet as is feasible (I got up with E at 7 and DH is sleeping so we are watching tv quietly and having breakfast, not playing bongos) but if she's screaming for a nap, I wouldn't stop her

I kept industrial earplugs by my bed when I was going to sleep in and E was a baby. They drown out a LOT of sound

I'm with @Mrs. Lion: that baby sleep trumps adult sleep. I was big on just letting them cry it out. Sometimes they would cry and then whimper for up to an hour (I know!) but will fall asleep eventually and sleep for an hour or less sometimes. Those usually weren't the best naps but a nap is better than completely no nap. The rest of the day was still filled with whines and crankiness but less so than if they didn't nap. We were lucky that when my youngest was born we were still living in our house back in the states. Because their bedrooms were on opposite ends of the house and our master was close by but our bed was quite far from the nursery so couldn't hear too much. Our apt. in Asia now...whoa...my youngest cries he wakes his big brother. Although, now it's not that big a deal b/c they are older and my oldest usually gets woken up when he should be waking up anyway. Hang in there! Sleep can get better with some tweaking and good schedule. At least it did for us.