Napping at daycare

belizeitornot

H is loving daycare so far which is good! The bad is she's only napping once there - for an hour. And the ugly is it does not make for a pretty evening when I get her home.

She adjusted well to moving her bedtime earlier, and when she's at home she naps fine. 2 naps and each of them is at least an hour. I know she's probably getting used to a new environment and all the excitement and doesn't want to nap even though she's tired. She's only going 2x a week which probably doesn't help.

Is there something I should be asking her teachers to do to help her nap? They're already turning down the lights, and she has a lovey and her paci just like at home, but there's obviously more action around than she's used to. (Also missing are her "crib tv" and her sleep sheep). 

Amy&Steve0421

Is it an option to bring the "crib tv" and/or sleep sheep w/her?

jess08200

Could it be that she is ready to drop to one nap.  I remember DS dropped to one nap around 1 year.

Try skipping the morning nap and nap more around noon and see if that works.

bh2720

A lot of kids go to one nap around a year old--Warner did and I think that's what a lot of daycare centers do for the one year olds.

Are they trying for two naps at daycare? Or does the whole class go down for a nap  at the same time? If it's the latter, I would suggest changing things at home to match their schedule so she has a consistent routine everyday.

tomandcourt

I wish I knew. J has never been good at napping at daycare, and recently he hasn't been napping there AT ALL. Which means he has to go to bed pretty much right when we get home, or else he gets too wired and won't fall asleep until late, and wakes up early.

Fun!

belizeitornot

bh2720:

A lot of kids go to one nap around a year old--Warner did and I think that's what a lot of daycare centers do for the one year olds.

Are they trying for two naps at daycare? Or does the whole class go down for a nap  at the same time? If it's the latter, I would suggest changing things at home to match their schedule so she has a consistent routine everyday.

They work on everyone's individual schedules at the moment since she's still in an infant room. So two naps *is* theoretically possible if she'd actually fall asleep when they put her down for the first one... the problem is she doesn't. So they get her up, and then try to put her down again later (which usually winds up being an hour or 1.5 after the first nap should have been) and she still only sleeps an hour.

I'm sure it's incredibly distracting for her to have other kids and adults moving about the room when she's trying to sleep because it's not at all what she is used to at home. But I know this is not enough sleep for her - I can see it in her eyes (red rimmed and baggy) when I pick her up..

bh2720

ugh, poor baby girl :-( fwiw, Warner napped really poorly in the infant room, too, I think for that same reason. he was just too easily distracted to fall asleep with all that activity going on.

however, when he moved up to the toddler room, he napped SO much better since it was nap time for everyone.  

belizeitornot

tomandcourt:

I wish I knew. J has never been good at napping at daycare, and recently he hasn't been napping there AT ALL. Which means he has to go to bed pretty much right when we get home, or else he gets too wired and won't fall asleep until late, and wakes up early.

Fun!

omg. no nap at all= miserable!!

ak1234

My oldest napped sporadically at daycare until he went down to one scheduled nap.  At one year, when he moved over to the toddler side of the room which was more structured and started one nap (all the toddlers nap on the same schedule), he slept beautifully.  My youngest seems to be the same way.  He naps every day, but it is a crap shoot on the time he naps and how long he sleeps.