Daycare nap

Toddler Sleep

For different reasons my almost 19mo has only been to daycare for a couple hours in the morning.

Tomorrow I am seeing her teacher to talk about how we are going to extend her scheadule and how we are going to address her napping there, and honestly I Don’t know!

At night she falls asleep with a bottle, and during the day we use the pram a lot or we just hold her/ lay down in bed with her. But at daycare she won’t take a bottle and will not be held. She gets VERY upset if they try.

When she has stayed for a nap they ended up putting her in the bouncy chair (which she HATES). And she cried herself to sleep.

I partly understand why they made that choice but of course I don’t like that the whole thing is so abrupt.

PS: Even though i‘ve had lots of doubts about separation, I really love our daycare and the girls there are really caring and empathetic.

Any thoughts??

Posted Apr 9, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

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