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No advice. =/

I asked a similar question and most people said 5-6 months was the earliest to nap train.

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-at-3-months-yay-or-nay

@char54: We have failed up until this point to get any kind of nap and then all of a sudden he'll go down if we rock him. I have no idea why, but it works for now. He's gets so overtired but I can't make him sleep. Also I feed to sleep at night and rock during the day so I just figure I'll have to break them at some point but right now I'm just doing what works.

D2 turns 3 months old this week and I've already (sort of) started nap-training. From 0-2 months I didn't care if I rocked her to sleep and just held her in my arms for naps but for the last month I really wanted to establish good sleeping habits so I started going hardcore with a nap routine. At the first sign of tiredness, I'll put her in her sleep sack and carry her around in my arms and soothe her just until she's totally heavy-eyed and sleepy (but NOT asleep). I'll put her down in her crib and she'll immediately flinch and fuss or cry. I just leave her room and the longest I've let her CIO is 10 minutes. Four out of five times, she'll fall asleep within the 10 minutes. If she's still upset after 10, I will pick her up and soothe her and repeat the whole process. I've never had to go back in twice.

The thing is, though, is that I'm comfortable with crying it out and some people are not. BUT, yeah, I do think nap-training now is better than later.

@char54: So, our LO never really slept in a swing and he never nursed or bottle fed to sleep. We always did a wake to feed. The biggest hurdle was rocking to sleep...total nightmare. We did cold turkey CIO at night at 4 months and then naps at 10 months.

We have the same problem over here. DS sleeps great at night in his crib, no fussing, only waking up once during the night and goes right back down. But during the day he refuses naps in general and hates his crib.

We've been nap training in the crib and I've found it's more of an art than a science. You have to wait until LO is visibly tired (the clock will also help determine when sleep should occur) and get him in the crib before he falls asleep. My DS will almost always fuss/cry when I put him in the crib, but within 5 minutes he's out. Teh challenge is getting him to take long enough naps. If it hasn't been long enough when he wakes up we try to just leave him, but if his cries start escalating we'll rescue him and let him stay up. I'm hoping that over time he gets used to napping in the crib and doesn't see it as such a negative thing.