tired after nursery trials

[pamelat]

DD is 15 months old (tomorrow), she will start nursery in 3 weeks. 3 full days.

She has had 2 separate 2 hour trials 0and loved it, not even cried and loves playing with the other children.

Each time I have collected her (once in the morning and once at tea time) she has been shattered, to the extent of just hugging me, crying and trying to go to sleep on me.

I collected her at 430pm tonight and she was ready for bed by 530pm.

I am not a true Gina F mum but I do have sleeping routines in place and dont want to upset these.

DD only chooses to sleep 11 hours at night so we do 7pm - 6am ish. I really dare not put her to bed before 7, neither do I want her to nap after 3pm - so whats the answer?!

Tonight I got to 6pm and gave in, she was too tired.

Am just worried about how she will cope with full days there, is the tiredness just because its new?

Both dds were always tired after nursery/preschool.

What time are the staff giving her a sleep?
Maybe they could get her to sleep 2-3pm ish, would that help?

I can remember dd1 falling asleep after nursey at 5pm and having ot wake her, bath her and get her into pjs at 6.30pm.

Hi and thanks litterach, she has not yet been there over a nap time.

At home she sleeps 2 hours at lunch, I took her there straight from her lunch nap today and collected her 2 hours later and she was shattered. At home she would not have been tired, am wondering if its just the novelty?

When nursery starts I will be collecting her at 430pm most days, am wondering whether to delay it until 5pm so at least we can go straight to bath and early bed, maybe she will just sleep longer now she is at nursery?!

My DS was knackered after his first all day trial (9-4). He was in bed and asleep by 6.30pm and slept to 4.30am, downed 7oz and went straight back down sparko until 8.30am. He's NEVER slept that long!! I think it was all that crawling about!!

After his first full day, he slept for 12 hours straight with just an hour's nap in the day. Think he was too nosey to sleep for longer!

Good luck with it

My DS took a month to settle into nursery (as in happily go in and get picked up without crying!) but his naps took a lot longer to settle! He's been in nursery now for about 3 months now and JUST started to sleep for over an hour for his nap in nursery (he was having half hour naps for the whole day before!) and getting better at staying awake till his regular bedtime. He sleeps for 2-2.5 hours when he is at home. There's just too much going on in nursery for them to sleep properly and in my limited experience, it seems that the napping took longest to settle down. I hope it gets better soon for you, I would give it a while for your routine to settle down... Nursery is a big change for the LOs!

DS was and still is exhausted after his 2 full days of nursery. He's always slept well and would sleep a bit less at lunchtime but still did the sleep as all the other kids do too. She will get used to it and probably will be more tired for a while - it's all that stimulation and playmates and new things. TBH I always feel knackered after a night out with my mates - all that chatting !. I often put DS to bed a bit earlier on nursery nights - too late and he'd wake earlier as I think he'd get overtired.