Does daycare equal better sleep at night?

mrs.cb

My twins are starting daycare next week, and I've been told that they will sleep better at home at night because they will be so stimulated and so tired from daycare activities.  Did any of you find this to be true?

How well did your LOs nap at daycare?

TIA!

kafunder

They nap decently at daycare (3x/week) and MIL's (2x/week). We started sending them at 4 mos, and by then, we already had them on a good schedule that both DCPs adopted. However, their night sleep fell to pieces around then. I'm not sure if it was the overstimulation at daycare, the 4-month wakeful, teething, or some combination, but their night sleep didn't get better until recently. They also started going to bed earlier. Before daycare, they went to sleep around 8pm. Now, we need to start bedtime at 6:15pm or they are a mess.

OrangeSmoke

I expected disaster - but they still got two snoozes in (plus one or two in the car ride)... no impact to their sleep at night at all.  The only "issue" I had was that DC let them nap whenever they wanted so on weekends they weren't on any sort of "schedule".

We are starting a new DC in 2 weeks.  We'll see how that one works out.

Rangergal9

Our girls are full-time at daycare and it took them about two weeks to adjust to napping there because they had been napping in the swings during the day with me.  THeir sleeping at night didn't really change, except we put them to bed about 30min earlier than we used to since they are tired.  

mmbench

We started daycare at 3 months, and their sleeping did improve.  Their naps were shorter with more going on around them, so they got more sleep at night.