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Anonymous wrote:I guess you will find out in two days. Yes, she may cry all day - and that is your fault. I simply cannot believe you did not prepare her at all for this.

+1 I took my DD to daycare every day for a few hours to get her acclimated and learned the daycare schedule and practices so we could start them at home. The transition was easy.

Yes, OP, you really screwed up and I cannot believe none of this occurred to you until this morning. You poor baby will probably cry for a few days and not understand what is going on. I am actually angry with you for that.

On the other hand, I did actually try to "train" my DD on the nap practices at home and it just made our last weeks frustrating for her and it's simply nothing like sleeping in a room full of babies so she didn't adjust well. It's a big transition no matter how you ease into it and artificially creating daycare circumstances at home wound up can be more confusing for a baby than just getting used to the transition as it comes. You need to go to therapy if you are "actually angry" that OP's baby MAY HAVE had an easier transition and may have a rough few days as a result.

I get angry when I see any child made to suffer because of stupid parents. Do you really think a nine-month-old baby who has only been nursed to sleep is going to enjoy her first day in a strange place without her mother's breasts or her mother? It is NOT all about you after you have a baby. It should be about the baby.

The acclimation you did was entirely worthless and you just happened to have a kid who dealt with it well. Congratulations.

There are a lot stupider parents than OP, you must be angry all the time! Sucks to be you or your kids.

Are you serious?! If a baby crying all day NEEDLESSLY because the parents were too lazy or stupid to acclimate her doesn't make you angry, I feel very sorry for your poor children.

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Anonymous wrote:OP -- please ignore the rants on here. So, does your child take the bottle or no? At nine months, if she takes the bottle she'll be given a bottle before naptime and then put in the crib. They will let her cry, unfortunately, for however long THEY deem is reasonable. As some on here have said, she will learn there are different rules at daycare and at home.

Our daycare never let the kids cry in their cribs--they weren't even allowed to leave the kids in the cribs when they were awake. They also worked really hard to get the babies to fall asleep--rocking, singing, feeding, swaddling. I used to go nurse my baby on my lunch hour and I would see their efforts to get the babies to nap. My kid didn't nap well in the infant room, but it wasn't for their lack of trying. She was just a really alert, observant baby, and if there was anything going on around her at all, she wanted to see. She's still that way as a toddler, but she does nap better now that the kids all nap at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:OP -- please ignore the rants on here. So, does your child take the bottle or no? At nine months, if she takes the bottle she'll be given a bottle before naptime and then put in the crib. They will let her cry, unfortunately, for however long THEY deem is reasonable. As some on here have said, she will learn there are different rules at daycare and at home.

Our daycare never let the kids cry in their cribs--they weren't even allowed to leave the kids in the cribs when they were awake. They also worked really hard to get the babies to fall asleep--rocking, singing, feeding, swaddling. I used to go nurse my baby on my lunch hour and I would see their efforts to get the babies to nap. My kid didn't nap well in the infant room, but it wasn't for their lack of trying. She was just a really alert, observant baby, and if there was anything going on around her at all, she wanted to see. She's still that way as a toddler, but she does nap better now that the kids all nap at the same time.

If you think they come in a swoop your child out of the crib as soon as their awake or don't put them in their cribs awake for naps (but rather rock them to sleep every time) you're delusional. And it's not a good or bad daycare. They just don't have the time to do that for every child. They might have been putting on a show when you were there.

Anonymous wrote:OP, how did it go today?

I totally disagree with the PPs who are yelling at you about you somehow not preparing your baby for this. You've done what your baby needs and are doing what many babies do to get to sleep. It will take a transition but isn't the end of the world. It will also likely work better for them than it will for you, since the baby knows you have milk and COULD nurse her to sleep.

I take offense to the idea that the daycare teachers won't be attentive to your baby during naptime. They may not be able to rock every kid to sleep all the time, but they will certainly do what needs to be done and will work on getting your kid into a routine that works for everyone. A screaming baby is not going to help the other babies that are trying to nap, so they aren't going to just let a baby cry without responding.

Just hang in there, communicate a lot with the daycare about what you can do at home, and give it time!

Anonymous wrote:Oh, my God - your poor baby!!! You are just thinking about this now, two days before daycare?!!