CM - Where do your mindees sleep/nap at your home?

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Hi

So I've already posted a topic on here tonight but I was wondering if the children you care for sleep downstairs or upstairs.

The first CM I saw today said hers sleep in bedroom on bed or travel cot and she has a monitor so she can still hear them.

The second said hers sleep in living room on floor (I hope on/with blankets but didn't ask) or on sofa for the older ones. Also travel cot for babies.

Just wanted to see the variations. I suppose there isn't a right or wrong, better or worse place, as long as it's safe. Im just curious.

I have 3 large travel cots - all under 3's sleep in their own designated cot with their own individual bedding - if all 3 want to sleep together, 2 are upstairs in individual rooms with monitors and 1 downstairs. I usually find that by 3 most have grown out of a sleep. However, if they still need one then I have ready beds which they can use if necessary.

Mine sleep in bedroom in travel cot (only have one that naps now).

Tbh, I would not be happy with my child on the floor, with or without a blanket, at the very least I would expect a mattress.

I would perhaps be ok with the sofa, depending upon it's height from the floor/age of child

I have 1 wooden cot, 2 travel cots, a pushchair or sofa.

I have 2 travel cots which can be put up in individual bedrooms, although I had one little boy who just didn't like it upstairs but liked to sleep in my living room (possibly liked to hear noises), as they have got older (usually 3+) I have a couple of exercise mats and blankets for "quiet time" and sometimes they will fall asleep. I always discuss individual needs with parents.

Downstairs in cots/beds, but I am lucky to have a chalet bungalow with downstairs bedrooms. They have also been known to fall asleep on settees, in pushchairs, in their home made dens, sitting in chairs, etc, but they do all have their own blankets and beds.

(Ofsted have approved us for overnight care, with the mindees sleeping downstairs, while we are upstairs on the end of a monitor)

I only mind downstairs, play room for playing, living room for sleeping, older ones on huge sofa with own nap blankets and own pillows, younger ones in travel cots..

All children can sleep through thunderstorms after bsing at my house for a few weeks, we dont do tip toe quiet...

Depends on the child. Some fall asleep in pushchair and I then put them in quiet porch, with door ajar so can see and hear them 9front door locked of course ).

Babies I put in a travel cot in conservatory (again away from the noise of the rest of children) and encourage parents to bring own 'blankie' from home to help them settle.

Older children crash on the sofa, or wherever they are comfortable - if they want to pile cushions on the rug then that's fine with me and their parents .

Thanks ladies

I never thought about their own individual blankets/bedding tbh but it's good to know for reference. Although the first one I saw said they have their own hand towels in bathroom and kitchen ( another thing I never thought of)
I know hygiene is important.

it's given me an idea of what to ask at my next interviews about how many cots, beds etc they have and blankets etc

V.large flannels from Ikea - £2.99 for 10, have different coloured tabs on top for hanging them up. Ideal for little hands as individual hand towels .

At my DD's childminder they sleep outside (weather permitting) in lie flat pushchairs - that seesm the norm around here

travel cot for the baby, or the buggy if we are out and about

one toddler prefers to sleep in the highchair laid back have permission from parents

the preschoolers sleep on the couches with bedguards, permissions held for this too

My youngest (16m) sleeps in a reclining buggy at the suggestion of the parents with normally two naps a day. The older two (18m and 30m) sleep in travel cots in the lounge at the same time after their lunch. My 3 year old no longer needs a sleep. At my recent Ofsted inspection, the inspector made quite a careful examination of my bedding making sure there was sufficient for as many children who could be sleeping at the same time and also wanted to see the travel cots put up and ready for use so she could check them for cleanliness and safety.

I have a travel cot/s in my own bedroom, with monitor, which is the only room up stairs to be registered, I have 2 cot mattresses I can use, most parents seem to be happy with older ones to sleep on the sofa or course buggy inside or out,
I had 1 Lo whose mum was Norweigan, at their house he used to sleep in his buggy outside in all weathers!!

It depends on when they nap.

If its a routine nap then they go upstairs in either a tavel cot or on a roll out bed.
If they have fallen asleep in the car, then I carry them in and put them on the sofa with cusions around them.
If they have fallen asleep while out in the pushchair then I bring the pushchiar indoors and leave them in it.

I used to try to carry them all upstairs if they fell asleep but we have very narrow stairs and it became a hazzard.

It also sometimes woke them up trying to get them upstairs and they would wake in a ratty mood not having their full nap.

All my parents are happy for me to do this and it works well for us.

I have one wooden cot (for 18m/o) and one travel cot (for 7m/o) although I've found that the 7m/o tends to fall asleep in the pram whenever we're out so she doesn't do much sleeping in her bed just yet - if we get back and she is still asleep in the pram then I just leave her there (weather permitting) as she wakes up the second I try to get her out.

When they sleep in bed they have their own sleeping bags that I've bought them as well as their own bedding, everything is washed every weekend.

I do have the individual hand towels for the older kids but I know for a fact that none of them use them even though I tell them repeatedly .

lolli in that case I would move on to using kitchen towel for everyone to reduce cross-inf risk

this has got me thinking about my cm and ofsted because I know shes due an inspection soon

my dd will only sleep in her house in the high chair when its reclined. Dd is funny about her sleep and shes decided that's where she sleeps at the cms, oddly shes also decided that the comforter that she needs all the time and cant sleep with out when shes with me and that I cant leave the house with out for fear of a non sleeping screaming baby, she doesn't like at the cms !

I have given her my verbal permission (basically I said do what ever you have got to do I know shes a nightmare! ) but do you think it would be worth putting something in writing? I would hate for ofsted to be funny about it.

dct your CM would love you forever if you offered to put it in writing

great I will suggest it in the morning then

you are v lovely indeed