SS gone since illness and daycare - HELP

[First mum]

They do all sleep together.  Up until the decision to transition to 1 nap with the illness and ss going out the window they were spending some naps up to 40 mins trying to settle her.  I am pretty happy with what they are doing it just doesn't seem to be working.

Despite such a yucky day we had a pretty great night. Bt 5:50pm up 5:40amith a blip at 7:50pm for about 10 minutes,

I looked back through her daycare book and the last time she had a good independent sleep there was the 29/6 which is right on the mark for when she got ill.  I took her to the doctors 2 days later.

Due to being unwell we also missed a whole week of daycare so its kind of like we are starting again.  I'm staying positive.  We will get there again 

Just need to be super careful on the days following daycare that I get on top of any sleep debt.

[lauradj]

I just want to chime in that when we transitioned DS1 from 2-1, there was a solid 2 weeks of bumpiness.  There were EW all over the place and it wasn't until we set the bed time that everything started to even out again.  I was trying to do early bed time on the days his cat nap didn't happen but that just did not work!  It took me almost a solid month to transition DS1 and I kept the catnap in the afternoon until I had him going to sleep at noon. 
Could you request the day care spends more time helping her fall asleep?  I remember there were certain babies that were laid down first because they took longer to settle and then the quick-to-fall-asleep set, my son and his two buddies, were laid down a little later because they'd just nod off.  Maybe the workers could do that?

[First mum]

Thanks lauradj.  I collected her early from daycare today as unwell again 

I don't have much wriggle room with moving her bt.  It's always been 6-6:15pm.  We tried when she was a bit younger to shift her whole day and it didn't go well.  If we rewind a few months we were 6-6 which was great.  Teeth, leaps, personality etc and we are where we are now.  I'm still pretty happy with her 11-11.5 that we were getting but with the day naps getting shorter and shorter and now transitioning I feel like I was only treading water and not improving anything for her.

I've got her now for 5 days in a row before daycare next week so am hoping to follow the same plan as last week.  Regardless of wake up (within reason) nap at 11:30 and I'm going to try my best to avoid a cn in the morning if I can.  We had good success with a 70 minute nap with no resettling last week and I managed to stretch her to 95 mins with a bit of patting so am confident we can do this!!!  She has always responded well to things we have tried I've just been a bit unsure with the illness and then the self settling going and daycare which is new (8 weeks).

What schedule did you follow, did you have to try a couple?

[lauradj]

Before DS stared day care, I knew they had lunch at 11:30-12:00 and naps around 12:30-1 so I worked towards that.  I remember that I tried to make the morning nap the long one and just a quick 45 mins in the afternoon, sometimes an hour if the morning nap was total rubbish.  Once I was able to push him to 11:30 I think I abandoned the cat nap (that's when we had all the wonky early bed times that didn't work), and then I just kept gently pushing him until I got him to 12:30.  The day care staff all said a lot of the kids just push on through because they're so busy they don't even realize they're tired.