How will they get DD to sleep at nursery?

[tiredpooky]

Hello, due back july when DD 13m part time, but how on earth will they get her to nap when she feeds to sleep? i dont suppose they do that there or will take her out in car or sling or poss pram?
I am hoping to get her off my breasts but dont know how or how itll go.
Hence rising anxiety and perhaps I should just jack the work idea in. I would love not to work while she is so young, but if I dont go back (only 11h a week) I will deskill and my lifetime earnings will be greatly affected as no retraining available.

breast feeds to sleep i mean

I went back to work when my DD was almost 10 mo. She had always BF to sleep and I was worried about the same thing. But nursery isn't home and they soon adapt to a different way of doing things. DD slept 3 hours a day at nursery in a cot, even though at home she still needed to BF to sleep and wouldn't go in a cot unless asleep.

HTH

DS (12 months) started settling into nursery this week. I had no idea how the sleep was going to work out (never been a great sleeper-usually walked in his pram to sleep). On his third day there, I went to pick him up after 2.5hours and was informed that he'd gone for a sleep .

There's HEAPS of time between now and your return to work-you might just be amazed that sleep will have changed quite significantly between now and then. I also agree that these babies seem to do stuff for others that they don't do for us, as elvis says. DS is also BF, BTW, and if you don't want to wean, I don't think you'll have to.

As others have said - there is plenty of time - and also that children are more adaptable than we give them credit for (on the whole.) You might to want to start thinking about different approaches to getting her off to sleep as the date approaches - if nothing else it gives you a bit more freedom if you can feed and give her to someone else to settle (DP?) Knowing that she will settle in another way may make you feel more confident about putting her into nursery.

I amazed at what they will do at nursery. I remember rolling on the floor with laughter when ds' nursery told me that they popped mats down on the floor and the children all slept on those. I knew my ds wouldn't do that. He'd be all over the place and need to be rocked to sleep. When I went to pick him up on the first day, they told me he had gone down no problem and slept for 3 hours....

It will be ok.

It can take a while for them to settle, but as everyone has said, they are really adaptable.

The staff at the nursery pat them to help them sleep (if they need it). I dont pat DD, but it obviously works. They do this pat, stroke and then stroke the head thing - 2yo DD demonstrated to me this afternoon when I asked her to pat me to sleep

Thanks guys
you've all been so reassuring
i will keep the 'babies are adaptable' comments as a mantra /positive affirmation to try to make me feel better

another anecdote-DS who usually sleeps with white noise as he's SO easy wakened, slept for an hour and a half at nursery yesterday, with the other four babies creating a ruckus around him...amazing!

I am constantly amazed at their ability to get a room full of 2 y-os to sleep in nice little rows on the mats. Is amazing.

DS2, however, was the exception...he was always sitting playing when I went to collect him as the others snoozed blissfully.

Yes, my Ds was the same- never napped. But he had a lovely time having 1:1 attention (and often more) from the staff.

My niece is like your Dd and she sleeps alone at her childminders. I have no idea what magic is used, but it works!