Anybody start ferber during naps first?

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Were doing ferber for naps...probably will do it tonight too.
How many days before babe slept without crying? Thanks!

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We didn’t start with naps, but we did start sleep training BECAUSE of naps.  Little guy was always a decent night sleeper, but by 3 months refused to sleep in his crib for naps, would only nap on us.  So at 5.5 months we opted to sleep train to help correct that.  At the recommendation of Taking Cara Babies we started with nights which for us meant we just needed to wean him from one night feed that happened between 3 and 5 am.  There was only minimal crying for 2 nights and he’s slept 11-12 hours every night since (6 weeks now).  Unfortunately naps were way harder.  Two weeks into using Cara’s method (essentially Ferber) I was ready to give up because we’d have one or two great days and then a day where he cried himself to sleep for every nap and I wasn’t sure I could take it anymore.  But we persevered and after about 3.5 weeks he started going down with a smile on his face reliably (we still have a bad nap here and there if I miss a wake window because we’re out and about but it’s rare now).  If you don’t already, definitely create a pre-nap routine that lasts a couple minutes and stay super consistent with it (I think my routine was too short when I started and he didn’t have time to wind down), and if you can, try to be home for the first week or so for all naps until he gets used to it! Good luck!

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