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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's unreasonable for you to ask your daycare teachers to help with naps.  This is their job; you are paying for their services and they also want to help your child!  We have found success with most of the teachers by stating our goal, explaining why it's important, making suggestions of how that goal could be accomplished but also empowering them to achieve that goal however they see fit.  For example "We'd really like our daughter to get x amount of naps/naptime per day.  This is important to us because her doctor has recommended this/we think it would improve her night sleep/she is not awake enough when we get home to eat dinner/etc.  At home for naps we do xyz at abc times, but if you find a better way to put her down/there is a different classroom schedule, please let us know and we can try that at home."

Our son started daycare at 3.5 months - before that he'd napped in his crib at home 4 times a day but once he was in daycare where there was noise and excitement, he really struggled with naps (understandably).  For the first couple of weeks one of his teachers (in a normal infant room in a large center daycare in DC, i.e. 8 kids and 2 teachers) would hold him FOR THE ENTIRE NAP (2-3 30 minute naps each day), without us asking (or even knowing, I found out after two weeks and it made me really appreciate his teachers!).  Over time we've communicated with the teachers and worked with our son on weekends to get him to improve his daytime.  Now my son (10 months old) takes two hour-90 minute naps at daycare each day.  They usually put him in his crib and pat his back until he is close to sleep at roughly the same times every day (we are on a largely baby-led schedule still on weekends but at school they're a little more consistent with nap start times).  We've never done sleep training for naps, at home or in daycare.  I've been there during the day and they have a different nap routine for each child - some are easy to put down and others need more effort but generally they are able to meet each child's needs in time.  And sometimes he has an off day refuses a nap even though they try a couple of times and we say thanks to the teachers for trying so hard and move on with our lives!

p.s. Every parent using full time daycare because they work sends their kids in with sniffles/coughs etc.  Otherwise you'd be paying for daycare and never sending your kid there!  Your child is just getting all the minor illnesses now instead of kindergarten.  [/quote]

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