childminder sleeping arrangements

[forevergreek]

Just wondered what your set up as a childminder is for naps.

a) separate room/ bedroom with cot/ travel cot/ bed per child
b) travel cot in playroom/area where other children may still be
c) buggy
d) sleeping mat on floor
e) something else...(what?)

as a childminder can you use your own bedroom? for example if its registered and had travel cots added?

The only room registered upstairs in my house is my bedroom and ensuite for very little ones, which I dont have..

My boys, in my opinion, being that bit older need space to do homework and chill out on their own.. so I told Ofsted |I didnt want them registered..

I only have after schoolers so they know the 'rules' as it were.

When we moved to our new house, I had fond visions of a sleeping room, tastefully decorated in Beatrix Potter furnishings. I'd had to manage with just two bedrooms before, you see.

The reality of children chattering and singing instead of sleeping soon put paid to that twee idea

Now, they each have an upstairs room (older children's playroom, DD's room, our room, DS's room, in that order according to what is needed. We use a large travel cot for babies or Readybed for older children.

I still yearn after my lovely sleeping room, though!

Cots and beds in 2 separate rooms and sleep mats used for our 6. The older ones can nap on mats if it's quiet, otherwise they use the beds and reappear when they wake.

All downstairs, although upstairs is registered.

My upstairs is registered too so that I can put babies down for naps in the bedrooms in a travel cot. (Always put them in seperate rooms for the same reason Tanith suggests!)

However my 2.5 year olds are now able to climb out of the travel cots and although I have a stair gate at the top of the stairs I don't want them wandering round upstairs as a) this is where we keep things we don't want minded children to have access to and b) I like to keep the mess limited to just downstairs!

So the older ones who are too big for the travel cots now nap in my living room. I spread a double duvet out on the floor with pillows and use this as a 'sleeping mat' and draw the curtains too to help them recognise that it is quiet / nap time. My playroom is then still free for play for any children who don't want / need to nap. So far it works for me!

Pushchairs until they are about 2.5-if theyre still napping at that age,they have a sheet and blanket on the sofa.
I dont have the room for travel cots and if they are in a pushchair I can move them around if i need to-sometimes they go outside,or in the conservatory,or in the living room;wherever will be best for them!

Travel cots for each child in a sleepy room. If a child is teething/doesn't go down easily (for whatever reason) their travel cot is set up in another bedroom, so as not to disturb the other child/ren.