Nursery

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cherryscola · 05/09/2023 10:24

Hello,

I feel really anxious.

My sons first proper day at nursery today and drop off was awful.

He has just turned 2 (was 3 months premature) and he was so upset when I left, I kept it short and sweet but it was not nice.

Since then (hour ago), nursery have messaged me quite a few times to say he is still quite unsettled but they will try and get him to nap as I said he was very up and down last night with the warm weather where we are.

They have also messaged me other things like is this normal for him? he's doing xyz - is this normal?

Now I just feel really overwhelmed and like they cannot cope with him and that he isn't going to settle.

Anyone else had this? and is it really not normal (the impression I am being given by all the messages from nursery within only an hour)

Thank you!

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Caledoniadreaming · 05/09/2023 11:04

I feel for you, it is hard leaving them when they're upset.

I'm assuming he has had settling in sessions? Was he in childcare before now? If not it's going to be very different - environment, people etc. so yes will take him some time to settle down - but the staff should be able to deal with this, he is unlikely to be the first child who has struggled to settle.

Even my 3 year old, who has been in childcare since he was 7 months old, sometimes has unsettled days - they're still little.

I am surprised the nursery are messaging you this frequently though - before my DS started we were asked to complete an "all about me" page with likes/dislikes, favourite books, toys and things like that. That way they knew how to distract him and get him focussed on other things.

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