Sleep training short naps

[Momhope15]

I have started to sleep training my lo (she is 6 months)
Before she would only go to sleep with a pacifier and only on the sling. She would sleep for over an hour.
I am on day 3 sleep training and she is only doing very short naps (30mn). Tried to wait 10mn before going in but she won't settle back to sleep during the day. At night time has been much better.

How long should it take for them to learn to self settle? I feel terrible to drag this on .... is it normal for the short naps and will it get better?

In my experience it takes a few weeks for them to have longer naps when sleep training. So if she's falling asleep alone that's great, when she wakes, best to let her get up and get on with play or whatever, eventually she'll sleep longer because she will get used to staying in her cot when she's tired rather than just getting up after a short sleep cycle .

Hope that helps but of course they're all different. Going through the same with my DS2 now who also used a dummy up until recently. His daytime naps have just started to lengthen but came once night time was well established and he goes down without crying at all

Also I've found it doesn't take more than 1 or 2 weeks for them to learn to self settle. My DS1 is almost 4 now and we did the same with him and he's been an excellent sleeper ever since.

I find in the long run better than having grumpy babies/toddlers who cannot sleep without intervention from you.

Keep going sounds like you're doing very well!

Thank you - I feel a bit hopeful - will persevere.
She cries for 10mn now before going falling asleep. I feel so bad, her voice has gone from too much crying.
Hopefully her naps will get better.

10 minutes really isn't long so that's positive...if you do feel its distressing then perhaps you could persevere at night first then try the naps when she no longer cries at night.

Can be a topic that is very controversial on mumsnet too so sometimes hard to get advice/support