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@Pumpkin Pie: This is me but at that age I would just do whatever it took!

Whatever you do be consistent. It's not fair to let the baby CIO for 30 minutes and go in to rock and hold because the baby just feels she needs to cry for 30 minutes for you to come rescue her.

Checks did not work for DS1 and so we just had to CIO extinction style with him. We did it all at once - night and naps. Night sleeping clicked faster than daytime naps but we just let him be. DS2 clicked on better on sleeping for long naps before STTN. His nighttime CIO was worse than his naps. But he responded to checks and quick soothing. Both got it within 2 weeks and other than illness, teething (we go in and offer ice water and Motrin), and really bad Wonder Weeks (there's one around 7 months that was bad for both kids where they just didn't nap well for weeks so I'd end up nursing them to a dead sleep and transferring them a few times a week when their overtiredness was too much) we generally just leave them alone. My 1 year old usually always wakes up during his naps and rolls around for a while and goes back to sleep because he knows naptime ain't over until I go get him.

I'm curious about wake times too. At 5.5 months my kids were on two and a half naps a day and transitioning to dropping the third nap. They woke up around 730am. When morning nap was 930-1130am, then afternoon nap was 130-330pm and they took a disco nap from 6-630pm with an 8pm bedtime. Or if morning nap was 10-12, then afternoon nap was 230-430 and they went to bed at 730pm for the night. If they are awake 30 minutes within the desired wake time then I get them or if they just hadn't slept at all, I get them 30 mins early.

We do the exact same routine aside from baths for nap. We read a book or two, we change into PJs and sleep sack, white noise, blackout curtains, same lullabies, etc.

@Pumpkin Pie: well then you may just have to bite the bullet and CIO. If it's something she knew how to do before, she can learn to do it again.

@Pumpkin Pie: when I did nap training I let them cry for 20 min, then get them and try again in an hr. Ie - down at 9am. Cry until 9:20. Get them, redo nap time at 10. Typically by the second time they were tired and would nap. A few days and no problems

When she falls asleep nursing then do you go put her down in her crib?

My kids were a little older when I nap trained so they had mostly stopped falling asleep while nursing but for me personally naps are not the hill I'm going to die on. So I would continue doing what you're doing. Try for naps in crib. If she falls asleep nursing, put in crib. She'll get it!