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Probably not what you're hoping for, but E naps horribly at daycare. He sleeps for 20-35 minutes about three times a day. He's not cranky or anything, he's just so entertained by everything going on around him that he won't sleep. They try to lay him in the crib, rock him, put him in the swing, he just doesn't sleep. He takes long 1.5-2.5 hr naps on the weekends though. Maybe he's catching up on all the sleep lost during the week.

At that age, LO was still a fairly good napper at daycare. It was once she became mobile that naps became a huge issue. I can tell you that it does get better. Part of getting better was changing daycares (for us). At our current daycare our LO (14 months) is considered a "old infant" and the class is on a schedule. All the kiddos nap at the same time which has led to only one nap, but it's 1.5-2 hours long consistently. This is also the case at home now as well.

my friends' kids napped great at daycare.... better than they napped at home.

charlie was older when he started (21 months), but he napped great from day 1.

She naps...unpredictably at daycare. She's 15 weeks, and usually takes 3-4 naps that are anywhere from 20-90 minutes (but the 90 minute ones are the exception!). They don't put her on any schedule, they try and put her down when she's tired, and she sometimes naps in the swing or bouncy seat. On one hand, she's a tiny baby still, so I don't want her forced on a schedule, but on the other, when I pick her up at 5:30 and her last nap was for 20 minutes at 3:30...well those evenings are awful. But not sure what else to do, she's a great sleeper at night, and even on maternity leave her naps in the afternoon were a crapshoot (but a long morning nap (1-2 hours) was always a given, and I hate she doesn't get it anymore).

My baby naps better at daycare than at home. I worried about the same thing but she adjusted pretty quickly

My son is 6 1/2 months and has been in day care since he was around 10 weeks. I was worried about how he would adjust but he actually sleeps pretty well there. I think sometimes it's easier for him to check out there vs. when he's at home playing with mom and dad. But we've also been dealing with the 30 min nap stage again and he does that at home and at day care. I'm hoping this phase ends soon- it's impossible to get anything done at home on the weekends!

For the first week he was only napping for 30 minutes 4 times. Now he is back to his original nap patterns which is 2 hour nap in the morning and 2 1 hour naps in the afternoon.