My girl started nursery a few weeks ago. At the beginning she had 2 short naps there. Now most days it's one short nap. As a result she's really tired, and can hardly finish her bedtime milk before falling asleep at 6.30.
The staff say they spend about 20 min getting her to sleep and all she does is 30-40 min ;/ They're saying she might be going through 2 to 1 nap transition but i think its too early. I think she's going through a sleep regression
She's got her sleep sack there, they have white noise as well.
At home she's recently been having short naps too, unless I'm holding her.
Any advice how to make her sleep better at nursery?
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As someone who works in a nursery, the only thing that I can say is just ride it out …not helpful when she’s not sleeping well, but there’s a lot going on there for them and sometimes they don’t want to miss out.
Do they put her to sleep in a cot or a mat? That could be the difference! Sometimes she may just need to stay awake a bit longer as usually 30-40 mins can be to do with sleep pressure and/or like you say, regression.
Most babies at this age and stage aren’t ready to drop to one nap, and you know your baby best so stick with it.
She may turn a corner in the near future and be ok.
My girl is yet to start nursery but will be in the next few weeks so I’m preparing myself for 💩 naps and over tiredness in the near future! X
they have a few cots in a separate room. I think she stays awake for way too long, if she has one nap, like 5 hours:(

This is my little boy is morning nap has been getting later and later and he has been dropping the second nap at nirsery and then having a really short cat nap at home or we’ve powered through a couple of times but today (he does a half day this day) he didnt sleep at all! He had a very sleepy lunch at home and was asleep by 12.35 and slept for 2hours 40! (I think his longest sleep before that was 1hour 40) Went to bed normal time though