Is this as common as I’ve heard? Worrying!

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DD starting nursery when she’s 1. I will be back at work. Lots of people have said to expect sleep to completely go wrong once she starts? I’m worrying as my job is very full on and not sure how I will manage.

I don't remember it affecting sleep with my eldest, although there was an increase in illnesses initially which would have disrupted his sleep!

My 13 month old is starting nursery next week so I'm hoping he settles as well as his brother!

I'd worry about the illness more. DD didn't do a full week for 3 months. Her sleep was worse but that was mostly because of the constant fevers.

I don’t remember anything about the sleep but they were constantly sick, sorry to say that now but you will be ok, like everyone else and will deal with it one day at a time.

It hasn't been my experience with either of my children.

My daughter struggled the most but only because she point blank refused to sleep at nursery so would sometimes be overtired and frazzled by bedtime, but once she fell asleep she was well conked out! My elder son never had that issue.

Oh it'll be sickness every other week. You'll only get half of what you've paid for childcare wise because of the bugs.
Get them on wellkids multivitamin and Sambucol.

It might or it might not. Full on job or not, at only 1yr old, it’s probable that you’ll face a few bad periods of sleep - be they because of routine changes, nap dropping, illness or whatever else. You just have to roll with it. Hopefully you have a decent partner to share the load.

Agree with others forget the sleep issues and focus on the much more realistic issue that your child is unlikely to do a whole week between now and Christmas! Nursery bugs are bloody relentless and the chances are the only reason their sleep will be disrupted is because they are constantly unwell

It's not the sleep it's the sickness, be prepared to not have a full week for a while.

Didn’t affect my DD’s sleep and she didn’t get sick a lot either

I don’t recall sleep being an issue. Constant sickness on the other hand…

We were fortunate that Covid aside DS never brought home illnesses that made us all (or him) so ill we had to take time off work or nursery, but the constant colds and other viruses for 18 months got hard at times.

Have a back up plan for if your DC is sent home ill.

Sleep was fine. Illness was another as nursery would send them home in a flash if anything was up. Luckily we tried to evenly split the time off and my boss was great. It’s crap though, but sorts itself out in a few months!!

Mine was fine for sleep but yeah, illness was TERRIBLE. She was sick continuously last winter from start of school through mid November when we got a break because she had pneumonia so was off school
for a week, and therefore couldn’t get infected with something new. A week after that, she was back and sick till Christmas.

Sleep was fine. No illness too. But she was older than 1.

@HaddawayAndShite how much older? I’m wondering whether to defer it a bit

My daughter slept through when she started and that didn't change, but she was putting herself to sleep for naps and at night before she started nursery and for a few months afterwards she would only fall asleep with me holding her or being really close. Went back to normal eventually though.

To be fair DS didn't start until just before he was two (COVID related) and it made no difference to how many bugs he caught. Age won't matter unfortunately.

18 month but she’s always been a hardy kid so it may mean nothing.

Neither of my two had any disrupted sleep and despite the fact that all kids are constantly sick when they go to nursery, apparently as I often read on here, that didn't happen either.
No idea if it was pure luck, they have always eaten well so plenty of vit c in the diet etc which might have helped.
So, it might just all be fine. Good luck

Didn’t notice it with ds nor did he have lots of sickness

Never affected sleep and he was a bad sleeper but I couldn’t believe the amount of illnesses he brought back. That first winter was horrific. Hope you have some annual leave days left!

I think it depends on his current sleeping pattern?
Nursery has set times for naps, there is more noise and distractions so theirs naps tend to be shorter as well.
It didn't impact us but our son joined nursery at 5 months so got used to it very young. Some of my friends' toddlers still sleep at random times of the day for 30-60 min, and then go to bed relatively late at night. It's not a problem for them now, but they starting nursery soon and it's likely going to affect their sleep for a bit until they get used to it.

Mine were exhausted the two days they went to nursery compared to the two days with grandparents or at days at home.
Unfortunately, they were prone to lots of bugs during the first few months leading to time off work.

My son started at 12 months and his sleep was disrupted for 2 months after, it was a MASSIVE change for him - he’d had his mummy with him 24/7 up until then and suddenly he was thrown into a new environment without him. And he was continuously ill for 2 months which also didn’t help.

Never affected sleep generally (in fact he was knackered) but DS was ill relentlessly for the first year of nursery, which naturally affected my capacity to be a decent employee. It did pass and honestly he’s never ill now so I think it might have been worthwhile! Maybe.

Like everyone else, sleep stayed much the same, illnesses were brutal.

But my second was a fantastic sleeper as a baby, started nursery at 10 months and nothing changed. And then at 18 months started waking 2 hours a night that continued until she was nearly 3. Brutal.

There are no guarantees unfortunately.

(Except snot. I feel confident in guaranteeing you snot.)