Nursery and contact naps?

Hello, nursery worker here…it’s been a long time since I worked in the baby room but they don’t request to be sleep trained.
When they start nursery, you will be able to give full details of your routine, including bottles, nap times/nap lengths if necessary etc.
they may encourage your child throughout the day to take a nap in a cot and see how they get on.
It may take a few days of your little one being exhausted anyway from a full on day at nursery and eventually they will just sleep, even if for 20 mins to start off with because of such a busy and new exciting environment!
You may find that they actually sleep better at nursery eg. In a cot or on a sleep mat !

We used to have children who ate so much but ate very little at home, who slept long naps but used to have half hour naps at home…used to drive the parents wild!🤣

Hi, also a fellow nursery worker, who works in a baby room.
A lot of children have come in who contact nap. I usually talk with the parent and explain that obviously we can’t sit and contact nap however we can take steps to work towards the cots. I start with rocking them to sleep, then popping them on a mat next/near to me so they’re still close to someone. Once they’re more settled I introduce the cots. It takes a while but after a little while they do become settled in a cot.
My 2021 daughter was 9 months when she started nursery & she was a strictly contact napper. I worked 40 hours a week so she went to nursery in that time. They rocked her for a while then made several attempts to put her down. Eventually she became more settled and started sleeping in a little snooze pod they had. I did start putting her in a cot for one nap at least when we were at home. But still contact napped mostly.