Our first son (2y 5m) started nursery in September, as we had our second son in August, and he’s been going 3 full days a week. He loves it there and his speech has been amazing since he started going, he’s doing SO well, but I feel like every other week there’s a new illness there. I’m not sure if it’s because of winter and obviously kids immune systems are a bit useless, so I get the colds and stuff but I feel like it’s so constant it’s starting to worry me. Our baby is now 4 months old and I’m not exaggerating when I say I’m pretty sure he’s been ill more than he’s been well, he’s had a cold basically constantly since around 4 weeks old, he’s had a few days between where he gets better but then instantly gets congested and has a vile cough, sniffly, very fussy and unsettled from feeling poorly. The nursery had sickness and diarrhoea in October, so we kept our son off that week to try and limit him catching it which luckily he didn’t. Then November he got hand foot and mouth from there, which was hell as we had to keep him and the baby separate, I was constantly disinfecting everything he touched, my husband worked upstairs while looking after the baby and doing his bottles and naps up there, I had the toddler downstairs and deep cleaned every single night, we used hand sanitiser between touching the kids to try to limit it spreading between them, which luckily it didn’t get the baby. Then they’ve just put another announcement to say another room at the nursery has HFM again - different rooms for different ages obviously but they all share the same garden area and toys. And in between that he’s had basically a constant cold which then we’ve all had too. Now I’m wondering if this is normal and just how it all works, or if the nursery is just slacking on cleaning? Because I swear no one else I know seems to have this many issues with their kids nursery. This is our first time having a kid in nursery so I could just be being silly but it’s making me so worried alllll the time
and I’m debating pulling him out and finding a new nursery. Or is that just what happens at all nursery settings?
please be nice 😂 I have no idea what to expect so if this is relatively normal then I’ll just suck it up but if most places aren’t constantly like this then maybe we should look to go elsewhere? Any advice appreciated!!