Nursery with a breastfed contact baby

So today my daughter started nursery officially. She's 10.5 months old, exclusively breastfed and a contact baby day and night. Shes also the most social happiest baby ever.

Nap time was to be expected. She was easy to bounce to sleep, but impossible to transfer so only managed a 20 minute morning nap. She drank no milk from the bottle or cup, but was fantastic with her solids and ate all her lunch.

She only had a half day 8:30 till 1, but fell asleep in the buggy within minutes of leaving.

Those of you with a breastfed contact baby who is impossible to transfer and attends nursery, how is it going? Are your babies struggling? Does it get better? She'll start full days eventually but I'm just worried that she wont get any sleep.

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My super velcro, EBF, contact nap/cosleeping clinger of a baby is currently in nursery for 3 full days a week. It's a struggle to get him to nap but they're managing with varying results. Today, he's had a 30 min nap, last week he slept for 1.5 hrs. They did manage to transfer him, once he had a contact nap (note that they won't be able to do this anymore from September).

I gave up on bottle and formula since he won't take any, so I feed him in the morning (and all night long lately!) and when he gets home but he's eating there with no issues.

This actually sounds really good for her first day! It's a massive change and it takes some getting used to but the fact she fell asleep and ate her food sounds to me like a great start :)
My velcro first baby started at 14mo and she never had anything other than water and food at nursery, and very quickly started going down for naps by herself despite continuing to only contact nap with me.

Honestly, the first couple of weeks are the hardest, then it gets better as they find their new rhythm! Xx

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