Do nurseries make babies cry it out??

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ds will be going to nursery when he’s 9m

Hes 7.5 Mo now. He gets cuddled/rocked to sleep, picked up and soothed when he cries

but I’m worried about nursery I feel sick thinking they’ll just make him cry until he falls asleep? Does anyone know if they do this I know they’ll all differ but does anyone have any experience

jm so scared I have no choice but to put him in nursery 3 days a week :(

When I was visiting nursery’s for my DS, the thing that sold this one to me was that the member of staff was rocking a baby to sleep, like it was her own baby. So they do what they need to do for each child, and as sometimes they seem to work actual magic to get them to do thing that wouldn’t normally do a home.

Yes! Me too. They had a baby who was only in one day a week and wouldn't settle in the cots, so the room supervisor sat on the floor and rocked her and cuddled her to sleep while playing with my DD and telling me all about the nursery. That was the moment I knew DD would be looked after by women who actually cared.

Another nursery practitioner here - no, we don’t do that.

often children learn to sleep better at Nursery and start napping in cots or falling asleep by themselves but this is not through being left to CIO, it’s simply that different people and a different environment makes all the difference sometimes.

Baby Rooms are busy, but this is why we have a set ratio of staff to children, and whilst it still can be difficult, we don’t just skip comforting children to get other stuff done.

Also, in my personal experience of working in a baby room, I’ve had children go to sleep by themselves in a cot, I’ve rocked the cot, I’ve rocked them in my arms and placed them in a cot, I’ve laid with them on a sleep mat and rocked them to sleep, I’ve pushed a pushchair to get them to sleep, I’ve sat next to them until they fall asleep, I’ve gone in and out laying them back down, I even once had a child who would only sleep in one of those sit me up blow up rings.

Baby rooms are about meeting the needs of the baby without having too much structure or routine.

Even in the busiest, most understaffed nursery I worked in, sleeping babies were the priority so none were left to cry it out. They often will be soothed to sleep with a hand on their tummy or back. They can be left to grizzle and grumble as often that's a sleepy sound, but if upset or agitated they will be soothed

My main issue with the baby room was actually the opposite OP. They always patted/cuddled DC to sleep which I never did at home. I worried it would ruin her ability to fall asleep independently. It didn't, I worried needlessly 🤷