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How do nurseries put babies down for a nap?

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ReeseWitherfork · 19/01/2023 13:46

Anyone know how nurseries put babies down for naps? Particularly interested in babies around a year old and where there is a separate room with multiple cots for all the babies. Thanks!

(Don’t worry I will ask nursery too but settling in sessions aren’t for a while and would like to get into the right sort of habits now.)

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ReeseWitherfork · 19/01/2023 14:09

FlounderingFruitcake · 19/01/2023 13:53

Ours had cots or floor mats. Mine both preferred the floor mats and would just put themselves down after lunch. It’s probably good if baby can fall asleep independently and isn’t reliant on complete silence but otherwise I wouldn’t worry too much. Nothing you ever do at home will match the nursery atmosphere with all the other babies there. They adjust!

What age were they on floor mats? Our nursery has both but my eldest wasn’t on a floor mat until he was almost out of the baby room… maybe 18 months onwards? They said they prioritised the cots for the smaller ones.

Twin 1 is good at self settling. She needs a couple of minutes of quiet first though and I wasn’t sure if nursery would be able to offer this (what with having to look after so many others) so was debating trying to get her to rely on that less.

Twin 2 makes a dramatically loud song and dance about every nap time and I am worried nursery will abandon trying to put her down if she’s too noisy and wakes the others. Getting her to (quietly!) self settle is going to be quite an uphill battle but if I need to do it then so be it really…

I just couldn’t imagine a world in which most 9m - 12m babies are reliably good at self settling (maybe they are though and my experience is not common).

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FlounderingFruitcake · 19/01/2023 13:53

Ours had cots or floor mats. Mine both preferred the floor mats and would just put themselves down after lunch. It’s probably good if baby can fall asleep independently and isn’t reliant on complete silence but otherwise I wouldn’t worry too much. Nothing you ever do at home will match the nursery atmosphere with all the other babies there. They adjust!

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