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Daycare naps suck. Some days Logan only naps once in the morning for 30 minutes and then is cranky all afternoon and passes out immediately on the ride home. It gets better as kids get older and they all nap together (though I guess an in-home one might not do that...).

@snowjewelz: I would definitely offer the Ergo! Does she transfer well? I know in our state the babies are supposed to be sleeping on their backs in cribs, so they would bend the rules a bit to help her fall asleep but transfer her to the crib once she was out.

For us, daytime sleep 100% affected nighttime sleep and her overall mood so I was willing to drive around for a half hour before dropping her off to get that cat nap in!

@snowjewelz: I know you aren't comfortable with CIO, but are you okay with the care provider doing some CIO?

In our experience, daycare naps are amazing! She naps so much more easily there than for us. It's just a total different thing. At home, lo still naps 2x a day most of the time, but at daycare just 1 longer nap. She falls asleep soooo much more easily there. Like, she goes to her cot and lays down and goes to sleep, versus at home we have to rock her to sleep.

LO naps pretty well at daycare most days, but not at the same time each day. Sometimes he does 2 longer naps, sometimes 3 shorter ones. He has slept much better at night ever since daycare started.

@snowjewelz: My daughter has been the worst napper for me since she was born. I had to rock her, hold her, and sometimes throw her in the car and drive around to get her to nap.

Meanwhile at daycare, she naps like a champ. Daycare providers are nap wizards. I honestly just let the daycare provider take the lead on putting her down however she put all the other kids down. I sent in DD's favorite lovey and told the daycare provider her general routine, but basically told her she could do whatever worked best.

@nana87: YES! Naps are wonky, BUT she puts herself to sleep in PNP easily with zero crying.....this is starting to show at home now too

My daughter is a light sleeper at daycare and does not as well there as she does at home. She always gets up after the first kid who wakes up. Sometimes it's only after an hour. The good news is, it hasn't caused her to nap poorly at home, if anything, she makes up for it on the weekends. She went down to one nap right around 14 months

@snowjewelz: Yes!!!!!!! I think she relizes there OK I got to nap now.....lol

It can be rough, but they adjust. You won't get the same napping at home as you do in daycare. I would work toward getting her to nap without being held and in general getting rid of sleep assists of all kinds so her environment for naps is similar at home and at daycare. Our LO has short naps but she actually is starting to move toward two naps instead of three at daycare which is good because she has to be down to one nap when she starts in the 1-2 year old room.

@snowjewelz: Actually, it didn't really affect her night time sleep. She usually woke up as soon as we got home because, being the light sleeper she is, she would notice the car turn off.

And yes, as crazy as it sounds, all of the kids would just get on the cots, lay down and go to sleep. The teachers had to sit next to some and pat them, but otherwise, they just go right to sleep. (I wouldn't have believed them if I didn't see it on the webcam!). She would still take a short nap on the way home because she really needed the sleep.