Long lie ins but starting nursery

[chocodrops]

DD has always been a sleepy baby, was a nightmare in the early days waking her for feeds but once that was behind us I've been enjoying it ever since!

She used to wake around 8am (bedtime also 8pm). She's just getting over a nasty cold and has been sleeping in till 9.30-10am the last 3 days and still napping as normal (2.5hrs in the day over 2 naps). She's still sleeping now 🙈

I've been letting her get her rest but she has a nursery settle on Thursday (9am start) and starts 3 days a week there from Monday - an 8.15am start.

Help!!! What do I do, should I gradually start getting her up earlier over the next few days, or just jump her to earlier starts and an earlier bedtime?

I would start banging cupboards and putting the radio on

I’d nudge her wake up time forward a little bit each day which should hopefully mean she starts going to sleep a bit earlier.

I had this with my DS. Still do for school some days.

Get yourself ready in peace first - all bags etc ready to go and get her up just when you need to. Hairdryer would normally stir mine 😂 she'll start getting used to it.

I think you're likely to find she is so tired from nursery that she'll start wanting to go to bed earlier so the problem will resolve itself

To save time, bath her and dress her in leggings and a soft top at night. Quick nappy change in the morning, milk, brush teeth, good to go (if she has breakfast at nursery). You won't need to faff about getting her dressed.

To save time, bath her and dress her in leggings and a soft top at night. Quick nappy change in the morning, milk, brush teeth, good to go (if she has breakfast at nursery). You won't need to faff about getting her dressed.

That’s minging! How long does dressing a toddler take

Oh yuck,that's grim.

It's hardly minging. She's in clean clothes after a bath and is asleep, what exactly is going to happen overnight to make her dirty when she's wearing a nappy? I'm not sure I would do it but I don't think it's disgusting in any way!

To be fair we put her to bed at 8 because it suits us 🙈 it has just worked: DH home from work, bit of play time, then tea, bath, milk, story, and bed ends up at 8pm 💁🏻‍♀️ I think she'd go down earlier happily if I shifted her whole routine earlier but 8-8 has suited us.

I do think she'll need an earlier bedtime with nursery as she'll be so tired so was expecting that. This cold she's had has thrown a spanner in the works and nursery has snuck up on me with Christmas plans - can't believe she starts next week 😭

I'll try getting her up a little earlier each day between now and Monday to try and ease her in, might phase bedtime earlier too, especially while DH off work and see how she goes.

Thank you everyone x

I hardly think it's minging. If a baby is bathed every night before bed how dirty will they get before early morning, in the winter when it's not sweaty weather? You do realise they get caked in paint and food at nursery?

Obviously my older children now wear pyjamas and get dressed into their uniform in the morning. But when they were little I put them to bed in clean nursery clothes (made sure they were super comfy ones just like pyjamas).

As a teacher I had to leave my house at 7am to get to nursery for opening at 7.30 then to work for 7.45. This gave me 45 mins to prep for the day before my class came in at 8.30.

Leaving after 7am meant I hit a huge rush of traffic and wouldn't be in work until 8.15.

It wasn't fun but we did it (thankfully part time) and took whatever shortcuts I could to get out on time!

My dd is miserable as sin when she gets woken up for nursery and is a total nightmare to dress in that state - think she's ripping clothes off one end while I'm still trying to dress the other end so if she woke up dressed, it would be much easier!

She's been going to nursery for 2 years, she tells me she loves nursery but still every time she goes all I hear while we get ready and all the way there is [loudly] "I don't want to go to nursery", then she cries and clings onto me when I leave her. Before I'm out of the door, she's happy and playing with her friends!

@KellyHall oh you poor thing, that sounds like a daily challenge! And you don't even get to see the sunny child you leave behind 😕 well done for persevering! Although I suppose DD won't have a choice even if she hates it 🙄

Thank you!

DH is a misery if he's been woken up too - the apple never falls far from the tree 🙄

If I thought she actually disliked nursery, I'd find a different one. But she's full of stories about the fun things she's been doing with her friends at nursery and they have an app which provides info/photos too so I know she does enjoy it. It just comes down to the fact she'd rather be with me, it's a compliment really!

She slept till 8 this morning without her usual 6.30 feed so I fed her then let her doze on me till 8.30 and got her up.... she was not happy!! 🤦‍♀️