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DC room transition help (long)
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Mobile: DC room transition help(long)
Gah! So DS is going on 10 months old. I don't know when exactly he'll transition to the next room. Probably right around the time he starts walking since I imagine he'll be around a year or more by then based on current progress.
He won't hold his own bottle (can, but won't) and barely messes with a sippy at all. I've bought FIVE types of sippy. 3 different straw ones (lollacup, ZoliBot, Playtext sqeeze), and two more like regular sippies. He can't have a bottle in the next room.
Also he naps REALLY poorly at DC. It's not a huge issue because he still is pretty happy in the evenings before bed. At home on the weekends he naps well for me (in his crib, white noise, etc.) He can't see me which is the main difference, I think. In the next room he HAS to nap at a certain time.
Pacifiers. He's not SUPER attached as in won't be mad if you take it away, but if he sees it, he puts it in his mouth (unless there's something else he'd rather have in his mouth). He apparently DOES need it to fall asleep because they once called me and had me bring one because there wasn't one there and he wouldn't sleep. He doesn't gets upset if it falls out at night, though. It doesn't wake him up. Can't have pacis in the next room, though.
Gah! I'm freaking out a little bout this transition. In general I don't love the teachers in the next room, either, and wish it wasn't still a 6-12 month wait for the school DC/Pre-K he's on the waitlist for.
Any tips on the above issues?
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Re: DC room transition help (long)
Does he drink water out of a sippy? My LO never drank milk out of a sippy, just water. When he turned 1 year, I stopped sending bottles to DC in an attempt to switch him to a sippy. He still never took it, but he just stopped drinking milk at daycare. He got a bottle of whole milk at home at night after I started BFing, and I only stopped the bottle of milk about 2 months ago (22 months). He got plenty of yogurt and cheese.
I wonder if the napping would be better in the next classroom since everyone is napping at the same time.
I was a little apprehensive about the next classroom up too (although he was older - 16 months). The teachers are less cuddly with him and chatty with me than the infant classroom ones were. But the class has been good for him, I was surprised by how much he could do there on the first day. They sit in a circle on mats and he sat right down where he was told and stayed there for the whole circle time. If I hadn't seen it on the webcam I never would have believed it.
Best of luck, and I would try not to worry about this until closer to the time.
Thanks! I haven't tried anything BUT water in his sippy. They've done formula at DC and whatever he didn't drink out of straw sippy they put in bottle and gave him. They regressed a little, though, in the last couple of weeks because he had hand, foot, mouth and wasn't eating much so they reverted back to bottles.
The whole bottle thing is totally my fault because we had a lot of eating issues in the beginning. I'm super paranoid about his eating/weight (12%) because of it all. So, honestly I haven't given him a lot of opportunity to hold his own bottle or drink it out of a sippy.
It's mostly just the one teacher in the next room that I don't love. She was in the infant room for a little while. She's always on her freaking phone. TBH, if I notice it once he's in her room it bothers me enough that I WILL be talking to the director about it.
Do the bottles you use convert into any sort of sippy? For instance, we used Tommy Tippy and you could buy a separate "sippy cup" top for it. Maybe having something similar to his bottle during the transition now would help?
Also, I was really worried about naps when we started DS in DC. We moved him from an in-home sitter to DC when he was 14 months old and he did fine. Kids will surprise you. They tend to go along with the pack - if all the others kids are laying quietly on a little cot, he may do the same. Our center plays a CD and the teachers will rub kids backs or whatever to help them fall asleep if need be.
I also wouldn't stress too much about it as you do have some time. At our center, infants had to be steadily walking, comfortably down to 1 nap, AND on a sippy. It's not uncommon for babies to go on a strike of sorts when you take away their bottle.
Is it normal for babies to be on one nap around 12-14 mos.? I always figured it was a bit later. *sigh*
My LO went down to 1 nap at daycare at 10 months. It seemed pretty early to me too, and he kept the 2-nap schedule for many more months at home, but they just couldn't get him down for an afternoon nap when the older kids (12-16 months) were still awake.
I can't relate to the nap schedule situation. However, I will highly recommend trying the Take 'n Toss sippy cups with your baby. DS2 (10 months) wouldn't hold his own bottles and refused all the "age-appropriate" sippy cups we threw at him. However, one day I decided to give him some water in DS1's Take 'n Toss (DS1 is 2.5 years old). Holy cow, was that a match made in heaven! DS2 took right to it, holds it himself and will set it down when he's done. He's also able to pick it back up when he needs it. They're semi-disposable, inexpensive, and come in a pack of four. I don't even send bottles to DC anymore, they just give him his formula/water in the cup. The transition to the cup took less than a couple days.
I hope that my son is the rule not the exception. GL, and I hope you decide to try it and it works for you guys as well.
This.
You have at least two months. That is baby ages away!
A decent DCP will work with you on this transition. They should be encouraging him to be more independent with the bottle.
Everyone worries about the one nap on a mat transition. Again, good DCP should work with you on this. In most cases, parents are shocked at how easy it is.
Lots of LO's have trouble napping at DC. My DS was only taking like a 30min nap in the infant room. When he moved up to toddlers and they all napped together he started sleeping for about an hour and a half. I wouldn't worry about the naps. I think theres just too much distraction in the baby room.
My DS also wasn't great with a sippy at 10months. He would take juice better than milk. But the teachers kept working with him and when he moved up at 12months he was fine without the bottle. At 15months he is still getting a bottle at home at morning and bedtime.
At most daycares, the rules about bottles and pacis are still somewhat flexible as they transition to toddlers. They will not let your child starve or thirst all day.
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