Baby doesnt sleep at daycare

[booboo173]

Please share with me your stories about your babies that didnt sleep at daycare and what you did.
DS has always been a crappy daytime sleeper but was a good nighttime sleeper.  By the end of my maternity leave he was up to 8 hours a night and even had started to do a decent daytime nap of 2-3 hours with a few snoozes while eating.
I have been back to work almost two weeks now and his sleep has definitely regressed.  For the most part he will not sleep at all at daycare.  Some days he will do an hour but like yesterday and the day before he slept 30 minutes in the entire 9 hours he was there.  However when he gets home he passes out, often times before we even get home.  On top of that he has gone back to MOTN wakings. 
Originally when I was waking him up around 6:30-7 at night so he would stick to his 9pm bedtime, but it was not increasing his nighttime sleep and he was overtired.  Yesterday I let him sleep as long as he wanted when he got home and he slept 5-8:15, then 10:30-2 and 3:15-5:50.  So overall not horrible but I am hoping we go back to where he was and really would like him to sleep at daycare, I think it would help so much 6am-5pm is a long time for him to be awake. 
I apologize for the ramblings.  I guess i am looking for stories of anyone that had a baby that refused to sleep at daycare and then started to.

[karinothing]

DS basically refused to sleep at daycare (we were lucky if we got 30 minutes a day). He started to sleep 2+ hours once he changed rooms to where everyone slept at the same time (so 11 months).

[curbsideprophet]

How old is he? He could still be adjusted to the new routine.

[niq]

The first 2 weeks, V got horrible sleep at daycare. Maybe 1-1.5 hours total.

He still sleeps better at home than at the DCP. At daycare he usually averages 2-2.5 hours sleep total, usually over 2 naps. Sometimes he the bus ride home, usually waking up when we get off the bus. On days he's, home he sleeps more like 3-3.5 hours total. Bedtime is the same, but I think he might wake up earlier when he's been home for the day.

[ssmjlm]

E was never a good daycare napper. Well she was never a good napper until we nap trained. She's doing better now that she's in the next room when they all nap together.

I will say, when she first started daycare her bedtime shifted early real fast because she was so tired from all the stimulation. She was pretty much sleeping 6:30-6:30 with 1 wake-up.

[booboo173]

May 14, 2014 18:31:58 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

How old is he? He could still be adjusted to the new routine.

He's almost 15 weeks.  That is my hope.  He is also in an in home daycare where no all the kids nap so I wonder if that is affecting him.
The other part is I question if I should have or should be doing something different at home.  I have always been going baby led schedule and never forced him to go down for a nap but more if he fell asleep then put him in his swing to sleep. 

[curbsideprophet]

Do they try to make a dark, quiet place for him to nap? I know in the infant room at our center kids were on all kinds of schedules, but they did try to turn out the lights and make things quiet for at least part of the day. What are they doing to try and get him to nap? Are they able/willing to rock him for a bit?

[Velar Fricative]

Very normal. I think it took DD about 2 months to nap well at daycare (still sucks with naps at home though!). Her nighttime sleep regressed too BUT that was general four-month wakeful stuff and even when she improved at napping her nighttime sleep still sucked until we sleep trained. And yes, the first few weeks she was so overstimulated at daycare that she fell asleep so early each night, but she got less exhausted a few weeks in.

[booboo173]

May 14, 2014 18:46:11 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

Do they try to make a dark, quiet place for him to nap? I know in the infant room at our center kids were on all kinds of schedules, but they did try to turn out the lights and make things quiet for at least part of the day. What are they doing to try and get him to nap? Are they able/willing to rock him for a bit?

He goes into a separate room to sleep that is darker.  From what they have told me what typically happens is he falls asleep while eating and then they go put him down, or they will be holding him and put him down to do something quickly and they look back and he is sleeping.

[asoctoberfalls]

May 14, 2014 18:25:00 GMT -5 karinothing said:

DS basically refused to sleep at daycare (we were lucky if we got 30 minutes a day). He started to sleep 2+ hours once he changed rooms to where everyone slept at the same time (so 11 months).

Same here, except he was 17 months when he switched rooms. He didn't sleep more than 20-30 minutes per day at daycare until he went to the toddler room, even when he was tiny.

We put him to bed by 6 or so, and he would sleep almost 12 hours at night (with several wake ups in there, of course).

[lmb5109]

May 14, 2014 18:44:01 GMT -5 booboo173 said:

May 14, 2014 18:31:58 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

How old is he? He could still be adjusted to the new routine.

He's almost 15 weeks.  That is my hope.  He is also in an in home daycare where no all the kids nap so I wonder if that is affecting him.
The other part is I question if I should have or should be doing something different at home.  I have always been going baby led schedule and never forced him to go down for a nap but more if he fell asleep then put him in his swing to sleep. 

DD goes to an in home also and when she started there at 10 weeks old, I didn't have a nap schedule established for her but did use white noise at home for night time. The DC lady puts her upstairs in her bedroom where it is dark and puts on the white noise. She put her down for naps at 9am (2 hours after waking up) and at noon when all the other kids napped. Sometimes she slept, sometimes she didn't but she kept to it and I stuck to it at home. DD would also nap at 4pm when we got home. It took till about 5 months old for her to really get a nap schedule established.