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Are you trying to train her to fall asleep on her own and sleep through, no wake ups, at once?

I read the book but didn't follow everything to a T. For me the bigger issue with my older one was getting her to fall asleep in her own, especially at night. It had been taking an hour of nursing, bouncing, crying, trying to put down then waking up... So for us it worked best to work on things in stages. That meant CIO at bed time, then I still nursed for MOTN wake ups and nursed to sleep at naps. Then I stopped nursing in MOTN before a certain time (midnight). Then worked on falling asleep on her own for naps.

However sleep training for her MOTN wake ups just never worked for us. She got to the point where she mostly only woke up once to nurse and went back to sleep quickly, vs crying for ages and not resettling, so I just nursed until she dropped it on her own at 9 months.

So all that to say doing it in stages worked better for us.

We loved that book and it helped our son's sleep. I thought it gave good sleep schedule guidelines, although we didn't follow it religiously. We sleep trained starting around 4-5 months and it worked for us. He never cried for more than 7 minutes before falling asleep. He was in general an easy baby though. It does take time, and we had good and bad days. Hang in there.

I agree, that seems like a lot to tackle at once when your baby is so little! I think also some
Suggest to do whatever you can to get those naps in so baby doesn't get overtired. Focus on bedtime first. Too many changes at once are stressful for you and baby! Good luck.

We used the Healthy Habits book for night time sleep and Baby Whisperer EASY method for day times. fWIW my priority was to get them to fall asleep at night in their own crib with a dream feed. I never could get them to nap in their crib during the day though, I didn't have the heart or energy to do nap training so my Oldest never napped in a crib until she turned 1. Only the Ergo..... And so far my second is on the same path. Two bottles for dream feeding at night and naps almost exclusively in the Ergo. But I put up with it because her night sleep training went so well and as long as she slept at night I wouldn't ask for more. But I've read that you need to tackle day sleep first before you do nights...

I used the book for its development appropriate sleep info, but didn't sleep train per say.