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Sonadora
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Anyone else put their LO in daycare at a later age?
Sonadora
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I'm starting to get really nervous about how this is going to go. I stayed home until B was almost 6 months and my mom has been taking care of her since I went back to work.
After the first of the year my mom is moving back home and B is going to be in daycare at my office. I'm worried it's going to be a difficult transition since she'll be older.
Also, our daycare requires the kiddos to be walking, feeding themselves, on one nap a day, and off a bottle to be in the 1s room. We're good on the feeding thing at this point, but beyond that, notsomuch. I know that can all come by 1, but I fear forcing her into it, especially the one nap a day thing.
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Re: Anyone else put their LO in daycare at a later age?
The one nap a day seems like a lot to ask of a one year old. Every kid is different. K still takes two naps a day and she is only a few weeks away from one.
Will they not let her come if she takes two naps? What if she accidentally falls asleep twice? Do they make her wake up?
DS has been in daycare since 9 weeks, so I can't speak for how B will take the transition, but those requirements to be in the one year old room seem very unreasonable to me. How strict are they with the requirements? I highly doubt C will be walking by one, since he isn't even crawling yet. He's meeting his milestones based on his adjusted age, so those requirements don't seem very fair to each individual baby.
My pedi wants us to be off the bottle at 1, and daycare feels the same, so that's not unreasonable to me but the walking and one nap do seem unreasonable. If B is tired and only takes one nap, that may cause havoc on you and your H at night. C's "teachers" have told me that all of the babies in his room (8mths-1yr) have gone down to one nap recently. I'm not sure if that comes with age, or just being around the other babies makes them want to stay up.
This is a tough one.
It's a center, so it's pretty rigid. In the 1-2 room they only pull out the sleeping mats once a day, from noon-3. (Also, good luck getting my kid to sleep on a mat...) Given the level of noise in the room and the bright lights I seriously doubt my kid would fall asleep on her own at any other time...she's not the best sleeper and has never been one to fall asleep where there is real noise as opposed to white noise.
Of course, they'll let her come, but they will only put them down for that one nap a day. I'm just worried it won't be enough for her. The kids that are there from infants and that transition to the next room, they work with them as they approach 1 to get them onto the one nap a day schedule before moving them to the next room.
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LO has been in DC since 4 months however I'm also worried about her transitioning to the 1s class. They are on a stricter schedule and require 1 nap per day (12:30-2:30pm). Currently DD is @ 2 naps and its not at the exact time each day.
My best advice is to visit the classroom so B can get used to the teachers and environment. DD is really attached to us and her primary teacher -- 2 weeks ago DD REFUSED to stay with the sub or director, she screamed and screamed so I ended up bring her home. So I plan on spending some afternoons in the 1s and hopefully she'll grow to love her new teacher too.
GL!
Can you start her just before she's a year? So that she's still in an infant room? I was looking at a center for DS when we moved to Dallas, and they had all the same rules. And he was by no means off a bottle, walking, or napping once a day. What she told me was that if we started him before he was officially a year, he'd be in a room with older babies, and he could be transitioned to the 1-2 year room once he was ready.
I thought about this, but then worried that it might be even more difficult on her to make the transition from being at home to being at daycare and then just a few weeks later have to transition to an entirely new classroom?
Plus, I'm not sure they would even have space for us. I've been on the wait list since I was about 12 weeks pg and they still can't tell me for certain I have a spot come January, though they think they will. If I don't get a spot, I don't even know what I'm going to do. Plus, we're on the waitlist for a spot in the 1s room. I'd have to start all over again at the bottom of the list to be on the list for the infant room.
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You'd be really shocked to see just how quick they adapt. Since every other child is doing it most kids conform and want to be like the others, plus they aren't allowed usually to do anything else so they'll get bored and fall asleep. S's center did their move ups to new classrooms on tuesday and since I work there in the pm too I talked to many of the infant parents who almost passed out to learn that their LO's who moved up actually napped on mats and did in fact sleep.