Where Do You Nap Babies?

[trix23]

All my toddlers nap in the dining room and my kids sleep in their own room. There's more space for a pack-n-play in their bedroom if needed but I don't know if napping 2 babies together in the same room is wise. Input?

[CityGarden]

All my children are 2+ and nap in the same room on cots.

If I took babies, I would only take 0-2 and I would have a dedicated nap room with 4 cribs (which is the max number of infants I could have per my license).

[Leigh]

I nap them in the same room as me until they are at least 6 months old. I'm by no means normal ( ), but I have two close friends who lost their babies while they were being cared for by others, and I just am too paranoid about SIDS to let them get any farther away from me.

[bklsmum]

I have a baby room off of the main daycare room for the under 2 crowd and they sleep in their pack n plays in there.

[trix23]

Sounds good! I guess I'll put her in there

[hwichlaz]

I nap them all in the same area. My cots go in the playroom, which is just my diningroom in myopen floor plan house. My infants go in portable cribs in the livingroom. I put soft music for white noise, and the older kids learn to sleep through it if a baby is fussy.

[Blackcat31]

My toddlers and young preschoolers (age 16 mos to 2.5 yrs) sleep in one room.

My preschoolers (age 2.5 to 5 yrs) sleep in another room all together.

My under 1 yr old kids sleep in whatever room I am in.
Like Leigh, I am too paranoid to let them sleep outside my direct line of site at that age.

[laundrymom]

I nap them all in playroom. Sight and sound. From enrollment start to the day they leave me.

[Jupadia]

If they nap twice per day I put them in my family movie room just off my daycare room in playpens If they only nap 1 time per day the nap in the daycare room with the other kids on cots. My own kids use their separate rooms for nap (one in bed and one in his crib). I also have audio monitors in their rooms I bring down at nap so I can hear beter. Though the floors are thin and I can uselly hear a slight cry when the youngest wakes.

[trix23]

I tried using nap mats in the playroom but no one stayed on them. :/

But I think I might like them if the kids used them properly.

[hwichlaz]

I tried using nap mats in the playroom but no one stayed on them. :/

But I think I might like them if the kids used them properly.

you have to MAKE them. It takes time and effort. Start with the oldest first. sit next to him, every time he sits up, lay him down...until he falls asleep. ONce he's trained, start working with the next one.

[trix23]

I suppose. But my son has an iron will.

What do you do with the other kids as you have the oldest one on a mat/cot?

[hwichlaz]

I suppose. But my son has an iron will.

What do you do with the other kids as you have the oldest one on a mat/cot?

Where do you have them napping now?

I think it's because you're new and your group is new. I only have to train one or two kids at a time because the rest of my group are oldtimers that are already trained, and I only get one new child at a time, or have one child age out of a crib at a time. It's hard work getting to that point, but once you're there it's much easier to maintain it.

[trix23]

Currently have 4 in pack-n-plays in my living and dining room, my 2 kids in their room, and another one in the playroom in a corner

[hwichlaz]

Currently have 4 in pack-n-plays in my living and dining room, my 2 kids in their room, and another one in the playroom in a corner

Then you let them keep napping where they are, except for the child you're training.