My LO has done 3 settling in days and now 2 full days. She’s never been a great napper but we manage at home with a mixture of cot and contact napping. However at nursery she’s only doing 15min and 30min naps. I’m worried for her as she’s crying all day and hardly sleeping. I feel like she’s not even getting the chance to enjoy nursery if she’s exhausted.
To add to that, she’s refusing a bottle from them even though she’s bottle fed. Has anyone ever experienced this. Any tips on how to get her to take a bottle from them?
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Oh no, does she hold her own bottle? Get one with handles so she can and hold a comforter/lovey to her while feeding the bottle then try giving it to her to hold herself while also giving the comforter and sending her in with it? I guess you could also ask friends over ask them to give the bottle and leave the room or something. Or try an open cup. Hopefully it will be better once she has settled in. I've heard it can take 4weeks so hang in there. Sending hugs
she can hold her bottle, they tried that at nursery too but she wouldn’t take it. I think the foreign environment was too unsettling for her.
She’s a great baby but doesn’t take food or bottle well from anyone except me. She’ll take it from her dad but even then she’s fussy with him as he rarely feeds her

I wonder if you can stay for 15 mins in nursery when they have breakfast and then you sit and give her a bottle there and then a carer sits with you so they become safe and familiar to her, then the next time half way you hand over to them and you sit with her and then ease her into it so she feels on to attach to someone else to feed with?

I have a friend who’s girl (turning 2 soon) has never accepted a bottle at nursery, and has never napped either. Another friend it took 2 months, I think 5 days is still so early days! X