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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are doing your child a great disservice by not helping them transition well during nap. Take care obviously won’t be able to breast-feed them. So you should try from now until they start daycare for your child to get used to either not being rocked or nursed to sleep. take care will obviously have to handle it but it will be tough for your child.[/quote]

+1. Start the daycare routine now.  Ask the providers how and when they put the babies down for a nap and start doing it before she starts.  Yes, daycare can handle it but why stress your baby more than you have to.  [/quote]

+2 It's much harder on baby and the providers if you don't do some form of sleep training at home, preferably before daycare starts if you still can, but at least on weekends once daycare starts.  It often isn't possible for a daycare to rock/feed a baby to sleep (maybe some will do it, but most just don't have enough staff to do this), so doing this at home is going to make it a more difficult transition for everyone.  My son started daycare at 5 months and for the few weeks before he started, we trained by cutting out the rocking/feeding to sleep (which we'd previously been doing) and I put him down awake.  That way the start of daycare wasn't a total disaster with naps.  I would check on him after ten minutes of crying (but not pick him up).  He definitely cried for the first week, which was tough, but then he adjusted.  I felt like so much was already changing for him, I didn't want the naps to be another thing that was totally different.  Our daycare does some rocking when really needed, but they can't always do it as a general practice for every baby/every nap.

Good luck!   [/quote]

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