What happens with naps? For those who work in nurseries.

[Lelophants]

For various reasons I now won't have to use a nursery, but a lot of my nct friends are and are preparing to return to work. With a lot of us ours babies only contact nap. After being fed to sleep of course! I'm also still breastfeeding and he isnt a fan of a bottle.

How on earth do you manage? Stresses me out just thinking about it!

Naturally, as soon as soon as dc2 joined dc1 at nursery, he also became a champion napper.

I work as a senior in a baby room and I rock sing and pat babies to sleep. I’ve been known to wear babies who are used to slings and have one at the moment that likes me to lay with him and sing Eric Clapton. Whatever they need, we do!

When I worked in a nursery all the babies were put in the sleep room and would be screaming their heads off whilst one or 2 members of staff would frantically try and pat them to sleep.

Some would sleep through the screaming, others wouldn't. It was like something out of a horror film! I didn't stay their long but I worked in a few nurseries when I was younger and generally nap times were horrendously stressful. You cannot calm 3 screaming unsettled babies who do not know you at the same time. Parents are only shown the blissful photos if/ when things calm down and they eventually drop off!

I don't work in a nursery anymore. It was horrible.

Nurseries are magic, I don't know whether it's the change in environment, the way the day is more structured than it often it at home, or purely due to the wonderful staff; but they're incredible.

I have worked in several juries and can get a room of 15 1-2 year olds in around 15 mins, you know who needs what and the best order to do it in etc.
I loved getting babies to sleep. Then came my two, had to have a boob,\ bottle to sleep, had to be cuddled, wouldn't eat get veg but at nursery they did.

I'm a nursery nurse & have worked in many many nurseries. I have never been to a nursery where every child is rocked/patted to sleep. In toddler rooms when they've transitioned to beds & sleep all at the same time, yes. But the babies who are still in cots in separate sleep rooms, the cry it out method is generally used. Don't get me wrong, they're not left to scream, but self-soothing is taught. It would be impossible to rock every baby off with ratios. I think nursery practitioners tend to have a higher tolerance for the crying, much more so than a mum would be with their own baby, so it tends to work.

Consistency and other children are sleeping. Children are very intune to the adults around them they pick up on the subtle things. If you are stressing about them sleeping then they will pick up on it

It’s like the nurserygirl who babysat my 2 yr old.

Straight to sleep.

Slept thru the night

Never ever bloody did it for me!