How are your little ones doing at nursery?

I'm going to just sit and hope for some heartwarming stories because we just started the settling in and it breaks my heart 😭 I was told it will be hard but omg

Its so tough but SO common that babies cannot sleep well at the start of nursery. Its a completely new environment and the staff have to work out techniques to get them off to sleep which will be different to yours.

My 3 year old was exactly the same at the start of nursery, he also wouldn't drink any milk there, and it was so difficult at the start as he clearly needed that sleep so badly but would only take little 20 minute naps. However they soon grow to an age where they can cope much better with less sleep, and when my eldest went down to one nap he would suddenly sleep for 2 hours at nursery!! So this is all just temporary and every day they get that little bit older helps so much.

My youngest has been at nursery for around a month now, and he will also only take short naps but they have managed to get 2 in each day and he seems to be able to cope well with that even though he would have longer naps at home.

Its so tough but I think she will settle into a rhythm soon! 🤞

Has been very hard. Her settle sessions last week were awful, I had to collect her early as she was inconsolable.

Today is her third day, it's getting better. She was on hunger strike on her first day but yesterday she actually ate something. Her naps are bad there.

She is also still screaming and crying when we drop her off, and we can hear her as we are walking to the car. It's awful but try to remain strong! I know this will be good for our LO and if we transitioned her to school/nursery at later stage it would be even harder!

I hope it gets easier for us all!

We went in to di oaperwork this week but start settles next week and dreading it

My daughter’s been going once a week for a while now but starting properly on Monday, the one day she goes is fine and it took her a while to get into the swing of it. She wasn’t napping to start with so she now takes a muslin with her which helped. It took about 6 weeks to fully settle/no more illnesses - but they said that was longer than normal as she was only doing one day. She now naps better at nursery than at home, it takes a while but I would persist and see if it’s just the settling in phase first. Then if it’s still no good, maybe if there’s an opportunity for you to do part time try that for a while? I’m a little anxious about her being away from me more I must admit but she’s learnt so much and progressed so well being there. It won’t be this hard forever ❤️