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Sorry I dont have much advice. DD was a horrible napper at daycare especially when she was an infant. At home she'd nap for at least an hour. At daycare we were lucky if she napped 30 minutes. In the infant room there was no set schedule so different babies were napping at different times, which I think made it hard for DD to nap. She's very interested in whats going on around her. Now she's moved into the Toddler room and they're on a set schedule which I think helps.

I'm sorry, I can just send my support. I went through this. M had crappy naps at daycare until she moved to the 1's room and they make all the kids nap at the same time. She survived, though and thrived.

I think we made it a bad situation b/c at home, she has a quiet room with a noise machine and it's dark. It's nothing like that at daycare!!

@Smurfette: i feel your pain. my LO often only gets one 30-minute nap the entire day at daycare (he's 6 months old). there's a licensing provision that prohibits the staff from moving a baby to a crib unless the baby is already asleep--as in, the baby has to fall asleep out in the play area or being rocked to sleep by staff before being transferred to the crib. but LO gets easily stimulated, and does not fall asleep easily. i've asked them to make an exception for him and put him down in his crib when he appears tired, even if he's awake, because the policy is not working for him.

so far things have not improved, although i bring it up from time to time...at this point i feel like short of pulling him out of daycare and getting a nanny, i just have to grin and bear it until he gets to the toddler room where they have a set naptime.

on the slightly brighter side, he is still growing and healthy (as i'm sure your LO is), so i guess it's not a dire situation.

@Smurfette: Aghhh, naps at daycare. They are such a PITA. We tried everything with LO and I'm not sure any of it really worked. He eventually out grew it and I'm hoping (fingers crossed!) it gets better when he is in the toddler room and they all nap at the same time. The infant room is a zoo, since each baby is on their own schedule. It's much easier when all the kids nap at the same time, so they can dim the lights, etc. So, no real advice. Just hang in there! I know it's rough...

@Smurfette: I thought the same thing. B would fall asleep on this bouncer, and they would move him to crib. The minute they moved him, he'd wake up.

@Smurfette: Yeah, I know it's not much consolation. I would try whatever you can in the meantime with white noise. Our daycare used to also drape a blanket over part of DD's crib to make it a little darker while she was napping, since they rarely turn off the lights in the infant room.

I feel your pain- my son took horrible naps in the infant room. We had a lot of days where he would only sleep for 30 min max- I have no idea how they dealt with him on that little amount of sleep. My only advice would be to see if you can get them to put the crib against the wall or in the back of the nap area. My son is also very nosy and being in the middle was just too distracting for him. It wasn't a huge help but it was the best they could do. If it's any consolation, even though it seemed like an issue it honestly never affected my son that much. He would be so exhausted that he would sleep really well at night and a lot of times we would get some long naps out of him on the weekends.