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Nursery. What would you do if you were me?

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luckysocks · 13/12/2012 20:26

DS attends our local nursery. I looked at a LOT of nurseries before enrolling him and it felt right as soon as I found it. Even so, I spent the last couple of months of maternity leave in a state of panic about having to leave him. He has been really happy there and is now in their pre-school room. They are reasonably priced, flexible (only charging me for the hours we actually use, even when changed at short notice) and generally try to be as accommodating as possible.

It seemed like a no-brainer that DD would go there too.

She's now had her first couple of induction sessions. The first one (just an hour) seemed to go really well.

Today she was there for 3 hours and I'm feeling really shaky and unsure about whether the setting is right for her.

She looked so little and lost when I picked her up and she'd been crying quite a bit I think, from what they implied. The woman who runs the baby room is fantastic, but the two other girls (they are young) in there today looked completely disengaged, although they were playing with the children when I arrived, so could just have been awkwardness at having a stranger in the room, I'm not sure. They're not very alert though, there was a grim dummy situation while I was in there today and the other day I pointed out a child who was gnawing on another child's shoes from the shoe rack Hmm I'm just not sure it's as nurturing as it was with the staff who were in there when DS was tiny.

To find alternative care for her would be difficult both practically (it's already a nightmare doing the nursery drop-off and getting to work on time) and in terms of pulling out on DS's nursery at short notice. It would have to be a childminder and I've got about a week to find one.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just panicking again about being away from her.

What would you do?

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TheSkiingGardener · 13/12/2012 20:32

I would go again, and if I still felt the same way ask to meet the manager and express your concerns.

The attitude to what you say will tell you volumes.

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luckysocks · 13/12/2012 21:44

Good advice, TSG, thank you.

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BertieBotts · 13/12/2012 21:45

I did find a childminder with two weeks' notice, so it's not impossible.

I agree talk to them first though.

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Welovecouscous · 13/12/2012 21:47

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