Preparing contact nap baby for nursery

My baby starts nursery in August and we do contact naps only .

We LOVE them 🤣 when do we need to start practicing cot naps for nursery ?? Anyone has any tips and tricks to prepare baby for nursery ? ( Like ; how long did it take to your baby to adapt , how did you do it? )

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We're in the same boat at the moment. But start nursery settling days on Tuesday, and properly there mid June.

Ive attempted out first cot nap this afternoon and he seems to have just taken to it 🤞🏼
If I come across anything or they give any tips next week I'll let you know! 😬

You don’t really need to practice cot naps as baby is used to contact napping with you. They will find their own way at nursery as they won’t necessarily ‘expect’ to contact nap there with it being a different environment. It can be a really good way to keep the connection while they’re settling too! X

Mine is a contact napper but happily goes down at nursery, usually does 1-2 hour naps with minimal interference there but still needs the contact at home! So not really anything you do need to do, just soak them up x

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