To send DD1 to nursery?

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DD2 is due last days of June. I will obvs be on mat leave. Daddy has a month off. DD1 (3 in July) has nursery until the end of July. I have no idea what is better to do! Advice please experienced mums! I can see the argument for not interrupting her routine, she really does love going to nursery especially in summer because they do lots of water based and outdoor activities. At the same time I don't want her to feel pushed out and like baby is allowed to stay home with mummy and she is sent away? I have never been at home before while she is at nursery, she knows I get in the car and go to work after dropping her off so don't really know how she would feel about that! Nursery is 20 steps from our house so would be no issue collecting her earlier if that were the compromise? Help!

You have to do what's best for you when the time comes.

If you were due a few months later then she'd be at school and there wouldn't be a dilemma.

When I had my youngest I had one at school and one in school nursery. The eldest had to stay at school and I kept dc2 in nursery (mornings only) even though I could have taken him out. I didn't and although the three school runs a day was a pita, those couple of hours with just me and the baby were invaluable. If the baby slept, I tried to sleep so that I was more awake and less grumpy when I picked dc2 up from nursery and dc1 up from school. It also meant I could have some time with just the baby and also some time with just dc2 as the baby would usually fall asleep on the way home from nursery.

Compared to when I had dc2 and dc1 wasn't in nursery at all it was so much easier. Mine all dropped their naps quite early and I never managed to get dcs 1 and 2 to sleep at the same time and by the time I'd fed, changed and settled dc2 there wasn't much time and I was too exhausted to do anything with dc1.
I spent most of the day counting down the hours till dh got home and could take the dcs so I could hide upstairs for an hour with no one crying or wanting attention.

Thank you for all the replies! That seems like quiet a unanimous vote for sending her! I totally agree that it will be nice to pay some undivided attention to DD2 and hopefully store up some energy to be more active with DD1 in the afternoon/evenings xxx