About my sons nursery, would this put you off?

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My son is due to start nursery in March.

DH & I have looked around several nurseries and found one we both really like.

The staff are lovely, they have a really gentle approach. The learning is very sensory based which we love and the offset is rated outstanding.
They also have webcams which we love the idea of so we can watch our son throughout the day.

The only “issue” is that that don’t have a sleep room.
By sleep room I mean the typical room with cots, which is what we observed at the other nurseries we looked around in.

My son will be a year old when he starts but he will be going into the baby room 0-1 until he’s 14 months with a few other babies his age (His learning will be based if the EYFS)

In this room they use bouncers, pushchairs and they have sleep baskets, which have mattresses in there but it’s a low down floor type bed (really hard to explain)

I did like these ideas as my son doesn’t take
Day naps in his cot so suddenly having one at nursery would be hard for him to transition to.

When he moves up to the next room, they don’t have a sleep room either, they have floor mattresses that they put out for the babies to sleep on.

I’m assuming at this stage he will having 1 maybe two naps a day, so it’s not as if he will be spending all day sleeping.

As a whole we really love the nursery, but I’m
not sure if the sleeping arrangements are putting me off.

A friend commented and said it was weird and I’m not sure if that’s putting ideas into my head now.

Sounds fine to me. Why on earth are they settling him in one room for two months and then moving him? That would be a massive issue for me and completely unacceptable.

Dc nursery also had floor mats and they never had a problem with getting the kids to sleep. My dc would sometimes do a half day and finish at 1pm and I’d always be amazed that the kids managed to stay asleep with the amount of noise some of the older kids made! Kids get used to things very quickly.

When mine were at nursery they didn't have sleep rooms either. They had mattresses along one wall and babies slept there.

Never even heard of a sleep room! My son is a terrible napper at home but naps every time he goes to nursery, despite goodness knows what presumably going on around him.

It wouldn't put me off at all. If they have any babies under 6m they should be supervised sleeping anyway so it makes sense. It's essentially what I do with Ds2 (nearly 3 but still naps occasionally)- if he falls asleep I put him down on the rug in whatever room we're in. It's also what I intend to do with dc3 when they arrive in march assuming they'll let me put them down.

I've worked in 3 nurseries, 2 had this set-up and 1 had a sleep room. The sleep room was checked every 5 minutes (they kept a timetable thing to tick off but there were often times where it would be 10 minutes before the person remembered to check) whereas the children asleep on the floor mattresses were observed constantly. The children seemed much more settled on floor mattresses and were able to be soothed back to sleep if they woke up.

I’d question why they’re going to have him in one room for 2 months then move him. That sounds unnecessarily traumatic - just as he forms an attachment to the staff it will be broken?

I only considered nurseries that kept children in the same room 0-2 for this reason. I’ve seen nurseries that move children 2 or 3 times before they are two and it just demonstrates a total disregard for child development.

I work in a nursery. Kids all sleep on their own mattress in their classroom. I work with the littles 14-18m and they ALL have one nap between 1pm-3pm. It amazes me how well kids adapt.

14-18 months? So they have to cope with a transition every 4 months?

I love the floor mat set up too. Easy to observe the children and they take ownership of getting and putting away their own mats. I looked round a nursery with a sleep room and the kids were just left there in bunk cots. Really worried me about them being unobserved from an accidents and SIDS point of view.

No seperate sleeproom here either. They had some of those low down floor bed things and two cots at the back end of the room ( I assume as a just in case babies don’t sleep unless they go in a cot or perhaps due to parent requests). I quite like the low down floor bed tjongs

I work in a 3m - 24m baby room. We have a sleep room off of our main room with cots that have little bunks underneath and sleeping coracles as well as fold out mats. I find though that most children settle better on the fold out mats and they're also much easier to sanitise between children (sheets are changed and kept for that child alone in a labelled basket) as we can wipe them down quickly. I can't remember who said a baby room will only accommodate one sleep after lunch but at our nursery throughout the rooms we accommodate each child's individual sleep needs, if they need two or three sleeps then we work to that.