Schedule going into nursery

My LO is going to nursery in about a month for two or three days a week..how do people transition from home schedule to nursery schedule..for a one year old I think is too early to drop him to a one nap schedule so I'll try to ask the nursery staff to keep the two naps schedule for a bit longer..is that even possible? 🥺 But I would like to slowly increase his wake window and transition to align with the nursery mealtime or playtime..is that what people normally do? Advice needed!! 😱😱

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Nursery should ideally follow your child’s schedule, especially at this young age. You can definitely ask them to keep the two-nap routine for a bit longer, it’s totally reasonable! We just started nursery last week (my LO is 13 months old) and they offered us three settling sessions before the official start. It really helped my little one adjust. He’s doing very well now, and we even received a happy photo of him at nursery through their app

I'd try not to worry about this too much tbh. Children behave differently at nursery and adapt to the schedule even though they would have put up a fight at home. As an example, my kids have both been extremely difficult to get to nap - often involving the pram and long walk as a last resort. However, at nursery they lay down on a little mattress on the floor and fall asleep happily with someone rubbing their backs. That'd never fly at home 😆 So as much as it's difficult to imagine, just try to go with the flow. They'll be sick on and off for the first year or so and maintaining an absolutely consistent routine will be impossible anyway.

Our nursery do one main nap, but he did occasionally have a short one in the morning there too while he was transitioning. But we stuck with two at home for the first couple of months because he did still need it really.

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