Nursery sleep

[siriusblackwell]

Hey, my LO started nursery this week and she’s one week shy of turning 1. She normally has a nap at around 9.30am and then at 2pm with bedtime between 6.30-7.

The days she’s been in so far she’s had a short nap in the morning, and then they’ve put her down for the 2nd at midday! So she’s awake by 1pm and there’s no way she’d make 5pm for bed let alone her normal time 😅. And if we put her down so early she’d just wake up at 5am..

Tried giving her a catnap this week and her sleep was horrendous. So not sure what to do? Should I be giving her a little nap to tide her over or should I be keeping her up?

Catnip?

I'd give her a third nap. If her "long nap' is only an hour and her first nap is even shorter, then she's definitely not getting enough sleep. A third nap would be better than an over tired baby trying to sleep at bedtime.

At nursery they nap 12/12:30-2/2:30 so they will be moving her to that schedule. It simply doesn’t work to have kids napping at different times.
The will be giving her a short nap in order to tide her over until midday and then she will be going down for the big nap then. She might have shorter naps at first but eventually she will settle into the 1 nap routine.

In the evening I would just keep her up, they are more flexible than you think at 1, you don’t need to stick to minute by minute wake windows. When my oldest was settling at nursery she would go to bed about 6:30pm.

What time are you collecting her from nursery? Would another 30 min nap on the way home from nursery work?

Another option is to ask if they can encourage a longer midday nap. She's at the right age to start lengthening her naps, so by 18months ish she just had 1 long one.

(Having said that mine slept terribly day and night, and no amount of advice or "at the right age for.... " made any difference!)

@Queenfreak I collect her at 4.30, and it’s on our road! I could take her for a little walk I guess and see if she’d have a quick 10 minute catnap and just put her to bed later.
yeah that’s the thing, if she woke up that early at home we’d get her back to sleep!

@Tulip8 @Completelyjo Thanks both! Baby sleep is such a minefield 😅 she’s always slept terribly and we’d finally got her into a bit of routine, hopefully she adjusts to one nap quickly or I’ll keep offering her the extra little nap

I'm going to take a slightly different tack – it sounds like she's still very solidly on 2 naps a day, if her first nap is 9.30 and her wake window is roughly 4 hours. A good nursery does accommodate different sleep times in babies, so I'd talk to them again and ask if they can do her second nap a bit later. Do they have many others around her age (most of whom will be on two naps), or is it mostly slightly older children?

Do they have a separate sleep room for the tinies? Our nursery uses the sleep room for children on 2+ naps a day and gets mats and blankets out in the toddler room for the big after lunch nap, but they are flexible on which children sleep where.