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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I nursed my kids to sleep for bed and weekend naps until they were toddlers and they never had issues napping at daycare. Daycare did not allow them to go to sleep with a bottle. [/quote]

This is exactly what I mean when I've read babies are adaptable to different caregivers. Surely she is not affecting his night sleep and I'm just looking to blame someone for his difficult nights this week. But I do wonder if the totally different environment at daycare helps dissociate any sleep associations from home. Thanks for sharing your experience with me.[/quote]

I agree with the PP, OP. I work in child care. We do not "sleep train". We are not allowed to let babies cry uncomforted even for short periods. We do LOTS of things differently than parents do.

Even between my husband and I, we put our kids to sleep differently. I was a rocker, he was a put them down and leave kind of guy. Children, even babies, are extremely adaptable and able to figure out different set of expectations from different people. [/quote]

Thanks, this is very helpful. Especially that you and your husband had different approaches with success. So much sleep training feels very rigid and inflexible and we are doing the best we can with the information we have to help our baby get good sleep and see the benefits. But the rigidity of many approaches is hard to navigate when you're not the one responsible for many of your child's sleeps. I do hope you're right and he's adaptable to different approaches from nanny and mom/dad. [/quote]

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