My 10m old son, who is used to a regular schedule of daytime naps, appears to be finding it very difficult to sleep at his new nursery.
At first I thought it was because his routine was not being followed and his (short)naps were at odd times. The nursery has, however, agreed to try to keep to our schedule but this seems to have made the situation much worse.
It appears that for most of my son?s sessions, the under 12m babies (rather than being in their baby room) are combined with the 12-18m infants, who also seem to share their cot room with the 18-2yrs group. As I understand it, although my son is going down at lunchtime, the older children are waking him when they go down for their (later) naps. One day this week he slept for less than 30 minutes - rather than 1.5 to 2 hours - at lunchtime and his morning and afternoon naps are also short (or non-existent) as my son will refuse to sleep (willingly)if he feels he is missing out on something interesting!
My son is now extremely tired and very cranky in the evenings, the mornings and at the weekends: a situation made worse by the fact he has also started to wake up some nights! I was warned that children often find it hard to sleep at nursery but I did not realise that it would be this bad.
Is there anything I can do (or ask the nursery to do)? Is the problem likely to resolve itself in time? Any thoughts or advice would be really appreciated.