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[judecorp]

My child goes to sleep without a swaddle at day care.
After she is put into the crib awake and told, "Have a good nap."

Double Yew
Tee
Eff

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[marlatiara.livejournal.com]

Video or it didn't happen. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha!! Apparently it happens twice a day!

[gala.livejournal.com]

"Not da mama"

[gala.livejournal.com]

(Mine apparently eats food at daycare.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Shocking!! V eats food!!

[artemis44.livejournal.com]

My DCP has told me time, and time again: "They just act different at daycare"

I still bristle every time she says it, but dammit if it ain't true.

On the bright side - now you know what's possible! :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Heh, possible THERE. We try this at home on a regular basis. And have for oh? Seven months?

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

yep, kids act totally differently for other people than they do for you. it's MADDENING. remember when fisher was the worst sleeper ever but then he'd go to my parents' house and sleep all night? it made me insane.

even now, tate will be incredibly whiny and clingy with me, but then i'll leave him at mom and dad's where he will not make a PEEP of cranky until i walk in the door.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally remember how Fisher always slept through the night at your parents' place. How frustrating. Maybe I should send A over to your parents' place at night. ;)

I seriously need your mom and dad to live in my town, too.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Well, at home, I make my own dinner, but if I go home my mom makes it for me. And I am a strong independent woman! It will always be that way!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I think I would like your mom making me dinner, too. :)

[colleenod.livejournal.com]

It could be that she misses you and Jen when she's at day care so she's more willing to check out for a bit and sleep and save up some extra awake time for you two. Maybe that's a warm fuzzy spin on it?

I know. The people at day care think we're nuts because we're always obsessed with them letting us know if he's having teething pain so L. can come give him Tylenol if necessary. She has never had to. He never seems to have teething pain at day care, but when he's with us, he lets us hear about it... and how. Our ped. says her daughter never has diarrhea with her nanny... she saves it all up and lets it loose when her mom gets home.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I think part of it is that she's not as invested in having lots of cuddle/rocking chair time with M, for sure. Because she loves her mama!!

But I also know part of it at least is because it's just naps, not bedtime. Naps are an hour or two tops, and she WILL go to sleep without the swaddle sometimes here at nighttime but she wakes more frequently (every couple of hours) which is annoying to say the least.

These babies!

[yip95.livejournal.com]

Teething pain isn't so horrible that a couple of fun toddlers can't take your mind off of it, apparently. ;) That's the way Z is, too. He's fine as long as he's doing something fun, but once he's home and bored, or tired, or whatever, then he's a crank-monster.

[artsweet.livejournal.com]

Yep. They're just different at daycare.

My mom pointed out that they have the example of other kids to follow there. So there's peer pressure of a sort.

That said, we had some luck training P'ito to go to sleep on his own. Email me and I'll tell you more about it...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, Punk is the only baby at the child care... the others are toddlers (or older, one is 4) and they only take one nap. And I'm pretty sure Punk naps in a room by herself, although I am not totally positive on that. All of the kids have different naptimes so I don't think they are in the same room.

Do I know your e-mail? I think maybe I do. I will check.

[sarahaubry.livejournal.com]

do you think she maybe just doesn't give punk the option of not napping with a swaddle? or was she previously swaddled nad then progressed towards not using it? sometimes they start stuff at daycare and then later do it at home....or vice versa.

jack was horrible for me all day yesterday and then was FINE for Marc. ALL NIGHT. it's frustrating.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Nah, she never pushed the no-swaddle thing. In fact, she tried to push the swaddle thing (because that is what we do here) and it just never worked for her! She said Punk would fight the swaddle so much at day care that eventually she gave up on it.

Heh.

[siercia]

Which probably means that at this point the swaddle is more about routine and the comfort she gets from knowing the routine with mama than because she needs the swaddle for the comfort it provides. Doesn't make it any easier to deal with, though, does it?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it's totally the routine here because apparently she was fighting the swaddle at child care and she does not fight it at home at all. Kids are so weird.

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

It's amazing what they'll do for other people, isn't it?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

These crazy babies!!

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

Yah. It's just cuz you're not there to hang out with her.

It's a compliment that she cries because she wants to hang out with you.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Of course she wants to hang out with me! Who wouldn't?!??! :)

xo

[yip95.livejournal.com]

It's crazy what babies will do when they decide to. Z's still falling asleep all by himself (after a good nurse). We just say "night-night" and walk out. I still can't believe it.

I like all the positive spins on it, but my reaction is "dude, what a crock!" If Z had done that, I totally would have been all up in his grill and like "hey, don't you want me to be happy and not so stressed out??"

I think we started unswaddling with naps first, cuz, like you said, they'll sleep for a nap-length without it, but nighttime is a whole different story.

Guess it's time to give it the ol' college try at home, again, eh?

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I've always been amazed at daycare's ability to get kids to sleep