Anna - thank you! That's so helpful! Reading through that... alot of it is what we've been doing with DD already so thats good to know I'm on the right track to teaching her to self settle.... I think my problem is, I'm not 'consistent' enough!!!!
And I think you are right re: don't bother with trying to resettle them into 2nd cycle because i find after a 30min sleep my DD is up and ready to play and wide eyed and no chance of getting her back to sleep!!!! lol Besides I think my DD is one of those babies that just likes to have 20-30min naps throughout the day rather than 2 long sleeps for example.

La DeeDa - hope today was better for you these babies can turn around so fast.... like today my DD had three day sleeps and each one slept for at least 40mins! some days are good but some days are not-so-good! lol these babies can surprise us huh.