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Attachment Parenting
benmichele
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Naps at Daycare
benmichele
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My 11 week-old starts daycare at my in-law's 2 days/week next week and I'm afraid about his naps. He's sleeping fine at night in his crib in our room (average 6 hours straight, after being rocked to sleep on our chest) but we started diligently putting him down for naps this week in preparation for my return to work and are having no luck. Up until now he napped on us or in a moby almost all the time. I'm pretty sure my in-laws won't wear him, since they've made negative comments about spoiling him by letting him nap on us too much (don't even get me started on my in-laws...). Anyway, we tried putting him down in a swing or in his crib this week and he sleeps 30 minutes max (usually only 15 minutes), where we get 1-2 hours when he's in the moby. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I really messed up.
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Re: Naps at Daycare
Good to know. I thought since he slept so long when we wore him that these short naps were not enough for him. He does tend to fall back to sleep when we pick him up, but you're saying maybe he only really needed that first little bit?
They'll get into a rhythm. If they see that there is an issue with getting naps they may see that wearing him may be a good idea.
DD still nurses to sleep for all naps except when she's with my mum and she'll go down for her with no issue. Yes my DD is older but it's always been the case, she'll go to sleep for both DH and my mum in ways she'd never do for me!
Kids are remarkably flexible, my LO still has to nurse to sleep for me. But H can get him to nap by laying down next to him and rubbing his back for less than 5mins. My sister watched him a lot when I first went back to work and she could always lay him down for naps whereas I had to nurse/hold him for the 30min-1hr.
So LO may surprise you and sleep great for ILs without being worn.
But like PP - my LO didn't start taking good, long naps without being held until around 6m.
30 minute naps are OK at that age.
But maybe this is not the right child care arrangement for your family. If they are making remarks about holding=spoiling and you consider yourself AP, it seems like there might be lots more "style differences" to face.