Hellobee Boards

Is that the one where you sit in the chair and move it further and further away? We did a modified version of that a few weeks ago. We couldn't use a chair because my son is weirdly particular about where people sit (my husband brought in a chair from the office and he FREAKED OUT) so instead my husband slept on the floor of his room for 3 days, moving his blanket nest further and further away from the crib and shushing him when he cried (sleeping in the room was good because he was right there when he had night wake-ups). On night 4 he slept in the hall. By then my son was sleeping through the night again, so since then we just shush him a little from outside the door until he falls asleep and then we're mostly good. Last night he woke up twice but only cried for a few minutes each time and then settled himself back down. He's 19 months, for reference.

Nope. When we originally did sleep training at 5 months I couldn't face letting him cry it out at naps (my husband did all the nighttime stuff but I was home on mat leave) so I just got him to sleep however I could. Eventually he sleep trained himself on naps - he started just pointing at the crib, I'd put him in it, and he'd fall asleep on his own. We kind of ruined that sleep training (we got lazy, he had a sleep regression, etc) so the situation I described about was us re-sleep training, but now he naps at daycare during the week and on the weekend I usually nap with him, because I'm 11 weeks pregnant and tired all the time, so we lay together in our bed and sleep. Our sleep doula told us that nighttime sleep and naps are pretty much unrelated in a baby's mind (not sure if it's the same for a toddler) so if you can't face doing it all at once you can do naps later.