https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:31:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1418284 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:01:11 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1418284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: Even though our daycare was Infant A and Infant B, really the older kids (10-18 months) were all on a scheduled nap. They were lenient though about letting them take an extra morning or afternoon nap if needed. </p> <p>I would suggest talking to them, but not demanding that they put her down for a morning nap. If she is functioning in the room and can make it to lunch then great! I know our daycare schedules the best activities before lunch so the kids are busy and want to stay awake (playground, circle time, lunch, etc). </p> <p>Bottom line is that for us, it was just an age where she was tired. We often had to push through dinner and get her to bed to try to keep her on a schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1418275 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:58:12 +0000 immabeetoo 1418275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: yeah that is hard :( But if they can't/won't put her down, I would prioritize an earlier bed time, even if it means skipping bath or what have you. I know at least with my son, the later he goes to bed, the earlier he wakes (and he is on one nap). He woke up at 5:30 today becauase bed time got bumped later... ugh!!! Normally it is 7 or 7:30! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1418263 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:54:24 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1418263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our old daycare moved all the kids to one nap at a year old. I hated it because I knew DD still needed two naps. The only way I got over it was letting her nap in the car on the way home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1418246 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:50:02 +0000 Revel 1418246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: This is exactly what goes on with my 8.5 month old at daycare, and like yours and @tinyperson: 's LO, mine doesn't really get super crabby when she's tired. But she IS tired.</p> <p>I've had to kind of just let go on the sleep front and figure she'll make it up on the weekends and other days of the week. She is only at daycare 3x a week so that helps us, I think.</p> <p>@tinyperson: It's really a shame that daycare promised you one thing (flexible nap schedule) but is delivering another. I hope you can get it sorted out soon, or maybe your LO will transition to one nap. Baby sleep is so stressful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1418113 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:11:24 +0000 tinyperson 1418113@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's so hard to know what to do. I think we're going to keep telling them to try to put her down in the morning and see how it goes. I really don't think she's ready to go to one nap. </p> <p>@danda: I don't think we can do 6pm! I don't get home till 5:30, DH doesn't get her home till 5 and dinner takes a long time.</p> <p>We have a long weekend coming up this weekend, so I'll have 3 days in a row. I'll see how her naps are for us at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417992 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:25:26 +0000 danda 1417992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Either insist that they must try to give her a nap at X time in the morning, or try to adjust your schedule for home - like maybe a 6 pm bedtime could be needed at first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417981 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:22:29 +0000 Anagram 1417981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: I'm in the same situation, but my baby is only 7 months. My LO is also a sweet, happy child who rarely cries about anything. And when she gets overtired, she just gets more energetic and happy and squealy and laughy. </p> <p>Most days at daycare, she takes like two 30 minute naps when at home she will nap for 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and a cat nap at 5.</p> <p>So when I get her home at 4:45, she passes out and wants to sleep through...but after trying that a few nights with some crazy 1 am wakeups, I now let her take a long nap from 5-6 or so, but then I wake her up for some (very cranky at that point) awake time before her real bed time.</p> <p>I also keep trying to get daycare to understand that she is tired...EVEN IF SHE DOESN'T LOOK TIRED. Like, she won't scream or have a meltdown like a lot of other babies. She typically wakes up at 6 am(ish) at home, so she should be ready for a nap at 8:30 or so right when she gets there. But istnead on her nap sheet I'll see first nap at 10 or 11 am...WAY too late for a 7 month old. =(</p> <p>It sucks and I feel your pain. When I bring it up to day care, they say she's too interested in the other babies to sleep, but honestly I'm not there and I'm not sure how hard they are trying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417969 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:15:46 +0000 NovBaby1112 1417969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ok so this kinda happened to us. we put LO in daycare around 11 months and she was still on 2 naps. our daycare lady could not get her to go down for a morning nap at all- either too much excitement from other kids, new environment, etc. I was worried bc at that age LO was also waking up early and I thought she was way overtired and too young for just 1 nap. then at home she started fighting morning nap as well, so we gradually switched her over to 1 nap by 12/13 months? as a result, she now sleeps in later so it makes the 1 nap much more manageable. I wouldn't stress it if they cant get her down for her morning nap- this might be the beginning of the transition for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417310 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:08:03 +0000 brownie 1417310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You need to insist on a nap. Yes they are professionals and have some different knowledge and training BUT you are the parent and you have some knowledge. My dude was taking two naps until he was 18 months old. This should be a partnership relationship for the best advantage of your child. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417203 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:44:00 +0000 sunshineandsushi 1417203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That seems odd. When my boys switched to the 1 year old room (also in a new daycare), they have a 1 nap schedule in the room, but they totally worked with us on transitioning them. If they seemed tired or sleepy, they'll pull the mat out for them take a nap, whether it was in the morning or later afternoon after the regular nap. </p> <p>That said, they actually only did it for a week or so inconsistently because they were too interested in playing with everyone else. Now they're pretty solidly on a 1 nap schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417123 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:23:16 +0000 tinyperson 1417123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: All they told DH was that they try to put everyone down after lunch, and that she seemed fine. She doesn't show her tiredness by crying, whining, etc. She's just a happy girl. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417119 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:21:36 +0000 tinyperson 1417119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: We can try to get her to bed earlier, but she likes to take her time to eat dinner. Unfortunately, we can't just cut her off at a certain time, because she's at the bottom of the charts and isn't gaining as quickly as the doctors would like. Add in a bath, and the time is gone! We get her down by 6:45 some nights, but it's hard to do.</p> <p>What bothers me is that their documentation says they will go with the child's schedule in this room — and they asked us several times over the first days what her schedule was. I really think they just don't realize she's tired because she's such a sweet, happy girl! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417102 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:17:15 +0000 looch 1417102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: In that case, i'd insist they'd try. What's their reasoning for not doing it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417094 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:16:06 +0000 immabeetoo 1417094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you get her to Bed earlier?? It might help fix the over tired loop if daycare won't help with two naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417092 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:15:38 +0000 tinyperson 1417092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're still in the infant room with under 18-month-olds. The nap room adjoins the main room but has a door and big glass windows. It's pretty quiet in there - and she's used to sleeping in a nap room with no door while kids are playing (at the other daycare). I don't think she'd have a problem sleeping with some noise, but maybe that's part of it. I just wish they'd try. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417091 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:15:02 +0000 looch 1417091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's the policy at our daycare that if you are in the one year old room, you are at one nap a day, afternoon only.</p> <p>I don't know why that policy came to be honestly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417084 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:12:39 +0000 autumnlove 1417084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daycare let the kids nap as much as they wanted in the infant room but they can only take one nap in the young toddler room. (12 months +) My LO was really tired/cranky for the first week or so but then she adjusted. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417081 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:11:55 +0000 regberadaisy 1417081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most daycares have a policy that when they move up to the older room ALL kids are on one nap. But I know with my daycare they did say if we felt she was not ready to be on one nap yet they will be more than willing to put her down for a morning nap. But then you run into the problem of would she even sleep with all the noise of the other kids playing? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-and-naps#post-1417075 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:09:34 +0000 tinyperson 1417075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Would this bother you?</p> <p>My 14 month old is an early riser. She generally wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 (sometimes closer to 5, and rarely closer to 6:30). She still naps twice a day when she's home with me, and was taking two naps most of the time at the first daycare we had her in.</p> <p>We switched her to a new daycare at the beginning of the month because of cost (we finally got off the wait list for this place which is quite a bit cheaper) and because it's closer to DH's office (like 2 minutes away). </p> <p>They've been really great, and she's adjusted really well, EXCEPT they won't put her down for a morning nap. She was up at 5 yesterday, so DH told them she would be tired and needed a nap and to please try to get her to have one. We got the report when we picked her up, and she slept from 12:20 to 1:40. DH spoke with them this morning, and they said they put all the kids down after lunch (which is contrary to their documentation that says in the infant rooms, they work with the individual child's schedule). They said she goes to sleep by herself, but it can take her a long time to fall asleep. DH countered by saying that she was probably overtired. She's been taking a longer time to fall asleep at night too — and is really silly and giddy (which is her cue to tell me she's overtired). She's in bed by 7 every night, but sometimes isn't asleep till 7:45. </p> <p>I know daycare is an adjustment and there's a transition period, and she's at the age where she might drop to one nap. But, she takes two naps no problem at home would take two naps at the other daycare most of the time.</p> <p>Should we keep bugging them to put her down or just go with it? She's the kind of child who doesn't really get cranky or crabby when she's tired, so I don't know if they're just misinterpreting her pleasantness as being ok with their schedule, or if she's not giving them the cues to tell them she's tired.</p> <p>ETA: wow, that's longer than I thought - sorry! </p>