https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 26 May 2026 08:19:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874379 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:27:03 +0000 LemonJack 2874379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: Thank you. This really stressed me out, especially because it’s being approached as if there are no solutions other than the cover. It’s reassuring to hear I’m not crazy for feeling there are a lot of other options available.</p> <p>I’m not sure what I will say when I talk to her tonight at pickup. I have a hard time with confrontation, but the cover is obviously a hard no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874378 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:24:48 +0000 LemonJack 2874378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <br /><p><i>This comment has been deleted by the original poster.</i></p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874371 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:16:42 +0000 bees_knees 2874371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: Those PJs are intriguing (and brilliant) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874297 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:34:58 +0000 SweetiePie 2874297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Here are the PJs.<br /> <a href="https://littlegrounders.com" rel="nofollow">https://littlegrounders.com</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874295 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:33:34 +0000 SweetiePie 2874295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bees_knees: ditto everything you said.<br /> 1) clean the daughters room. That’s not your problem, that’s her problem. You’re paying her.<br /> 2) sleep sack or there’s another one meant to keep kids from climbing, I’ll look for it.<br /> 3) too bad for her husband. Again. You’re paying and he’s wfh at an in-home daycare. Not your problem. ESP if putting her in her messy daughters room would help contain the sound! He can use headphones. He can go to the library. There are a lot of ways they can fix a problem that isn’t yours to fix. </p> <p>Agree also about trying the balckout shades. Or before investing much if you want to test it out...duct tape and black garbage bags. Instant blackout. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874266 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:51:50 +0000 LemonJack 2874266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jennlin821: She actually has one of those that my older daughter slept in for awhile. She tried it today and it didn’t work.. I’m guessing it might take awhile for her to get used to, but maybe it could work eventually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874265 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:50:10 +0000 LemonJack 2874265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I’ll suggest those shades and see what she says. Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874264 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:49:12 +0000 LemonJack 2874264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Petitduck: Four kids total. DD is 1.5, our older DD, and then two other children.<br /> Thanks for making me feel like I’m not crazy. I don’t understand why the solution isn’t just to clean the room and put her back in there... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874263 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:47:14 +0000 LemonJack 2874263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bees_knees: She has a sleep sack, and I should check to see if she is still using it. I agree with not understanding why her daughter’s room can’t be cleaned, since DD was happily going to sleep in there with zero issues before.</p> <p>I don’t think your thoughts make you a jerk. I’m frustrated that I am paying, and yet it comes across as if it’s my problem. I would love to help if I could, but I don’t see how this is something I have any control over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874260 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:30:28 +0000 annem1990 2874260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A foot-less sleep sack might solve the problem. I don’t thibk anyone could climb out in one of those things. Maybe I’m wrong? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874257 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:55:42 +0000 Foodnerd81 2874257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bees_knees: I had the same thought about the husband. When you have a home daycare, I would expect the house to be loud at some points. </p> <p>However- if the sunroom is too bright could she get temporary black out shades? I have the redi-shade paper ones and they work amazingly well (even if they aren’t the most attractive things). We did go through multiple phases of bad naps with my LO including right before she turned two. Hopefully you can come up with something! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874252 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:33:46 +0000 jennlin821 2874252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Could you get rid of the pnp and get a crib mattress in a tent? Something like this?<br /> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Pop-Bed-Tent-Twin/dp/B008MEF3MQ?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_10&#038;th=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Pop-Bed-Tent-Twin/dp/B008MEF3MQ?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_10&#038;th=1</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874251 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:27:35 +0000 Petitduck 2874251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How many other kids are there? Ages? I had a kid in a pack and play in my basement with a baby monitor and my own children in their own rooms. Important question: does your child sleep in a sleep sack? That would be a huge game changer if not. They won’t be able to climb out in one or it would be quite difficult. I darkened the room and play music and pat kids’ backs until they fall asleep if necessary. I have never heard of a pack and play cover in my life, but they don’t sound good.</p> <p>Agree with above poster, clean the kid’s room. Jeez. When I take care of kids I want my life to be as easy as possible and that means doing everything in my power to ensure the kids sleep for a good nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874250 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:27:30 +0000 bees_knees 2874250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don’t think you’re overreacting about the cover; I wouldn’t be comfortable with that either. </p> <p>Why can’t she just clean her daughter’s room? That sounds like the easiest solution?</p> <p>Can she still crawl out if she’s in a sleep sack? Putting a sleep sack on bought us a few more months of containment with DS2 😆</p> <p>Also, I have no sympathy for the crying and screaming affecting her husband. Like. You’re paying for your kid to be there, if it bothers him he can leave. Maybe that makes me a jerk 🤷🏻‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-help-at-daycare#post-2874241 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:05:30 +0000 LemonJack 2874241@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hey all, sorry for the novel, but I’m in desperate need of some advice about my 21 month old and sleeping at daycare. When she went back to daycare in September, she suddenly started fighting naps. She was upstairs in a sunroom/playroom, and although there were curtains, I suspect it was too bright for her. She was eventually moved into one of the bedrooms where it was darker, and she started sleeping just fine. At some point, her sitter moved her down to their finished basement, which was also fine...until she learned how to climb out of her pack and play. With that new development, it’s no longer safe to have her down there, so she was moved back up into the playroom. Apparently her sitter doesn’t have her in a bedroom anymore because the room she was in is messy (it’s her daughter’s room).</p> <p>DD is the only one in the playroom, so there aren’t the distractions of the other kids, but she’s been screaming and refusing to nap since she was moved up there this week. I’m hoping she will eventually get used to it, but I don’t know how long that’ll take.</p> <p>Her provider wants us to get a cover for the pack and play so she can’t climb out. I’m uncomfortable with that idea because I have read that can be a strangulation hazard. If she has climbed out already, I can see her trying to find her way out of the pack and play even with the cover on, and it makes me very uncomfortable.</p> <p>We’ve been with our sitter for years and I really like her and typically don’t question anything, but in this case I said no. She is upset because the yelling and crying is hard on her husband as he is currently working from home. I empathize with that, so I would love to help her come up with a solution we are both comfortable with. Any ideas for how to help a reluctant toddler with adjusting to a new sleep environment?</p> <p>At home, we’ll keep her room brighter for naps, but that’s only on weekends, so I don’t know how much help it’ll be.</p> <p>Any suggestions from those who have worked with kids this age, especially in a childcare setting? I suspect this will just take time, but I feel pressure because her sitter seems really upset about this.</p> <p>PS - If you think I am overreacting about the cover, let me know. </p>