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Ummm I think we might have this issue too...last weekend was a nightmare trying to get her to nap after her first week at daycare I'll report back this weekend!

Since being in a nanny share at 8 months our LO has almost never napped on the weekends with us, ha. When she did nap it was kind of a long process and ultimately one of us would just fall asleep with her. At age 3, she naps every day for 2 hours with her nanny and takes 0 naps on the weekends. We don't try anymore.

@mfa_lady: ahhhhhh crap....lol DD at daycare is in a pnp in her living room too......lol back away from her family room where the other kids are...she naps pretty well there, jet afternoon nap is not long enough yet so she usually crashes for 30 mins nursing when she gets home

@mfa_lady: I have to say life got easier for me once I tried to stop forcing things. There are definitely times that we get a grump baby but we go with the flow. There have been plenty of times we sit in the car waiting for one to wake up or cut dinner short because a melt down is about to occur.

At that age, my LO wasn't napping regularly at home OR at daycare, so we usually just had her nap on the go in the stroller or carseat. In fact, we often planned errands or trips around when we wanted her to take a quick nap in the car. It it helps to know, things eventually settled down (maybe closer to 10 months) and she got better at sleeping on a schedule. As a toddler, she started sleeping less at daycare and then making up the time on weekends, so these days, her naps are way longer on weekends! Baby sleep is crazy.

At 2.5, LO almost always takes a later nap on weekends. At day care, they put her down from 12-2, but on weekends, we usually do more like 1:30-3:30 or so. Maybe she just needs more time to get sleepy after being excited about being home with you.

I loved it when my son was napping on the weekends, I can't tell you how many cat naps I took myself. I solved the problem of my son's bad naps by laying down with him, which eventually meant that we were not doing too many errands or fun things, but I figured if he was sleeping, he needed it.

@snowjewelz: I agree. My LO naps like a champ at home (at least 4 hours per day) but at daycare only 1-3 30 min naps!