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According to Dr. Weissbluth in Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child, day sleep and night sleep are organized in different parts of the brain so theoretically you can nap and night train separately. I think this is true because LO didn't need to be rocked to sleep for naps, only for bedtime. So I only needed to night train. I have heard that nap training is harder though because babies are not as sleepy during the day.

We tried to do it separately. We did not have success until we did both at the same time. I did not want to mess with his nights. At the time I nursed him to sleep, but he would then STTN. Nap training alone did not work. I think consistency is the biggest thing and for us, that meant treating naps and bedtime the same.

I did them at the same time, and actually has a much easier time with naps.

@NovBaby1112: This could be what happened to us last night. We've been sleep training and nap training at the same time. Sleep training has gone well until yesterday where he struggled to sleep for 1.5 hours. We didn't go in and rescue him, just let him CIO. Before that during the day, he was also CIO for naps. So, he spent a lot of his day CIO for naps and then bedtime. We were afraid that he wouldn't distinguish the two. Also, we only have the weekends to nap train as well since he's nap trained at daycare. We probably made it worse for ourselves yesterday, but we wanted to make sure it was consistent.