DD starts nursery tomorrow

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Hi everyone. Dd is 8 months and has her settling in session tomorrow at a nursery. She’s never been away from us only with my mum . I’ve been told that they will collect Her at the door tomorrow. It’s filling me with so much anxiety that I can’t even settle her. I understand the COVID rules I’m just so anxious she’s going to scream the whole time and get herself so worked up. How can I get rid of this anxiety.
Thanks in advance

In nursery each child is allocated a key person. Their job is to be the main carer for your DD. They will build a close relationship which will help to support your DD emotional security by building familiarity and a secure attachment. This takes a bit of time but gradually your DD will settle as she feels more confident. The key persons role is to also build a good relation with you. They will share information about your DD interests, what she can already do and try and promote a shared approach with you to support DD learning and her care needs. Due to Covid restrictions you have not been able to spend time in nursery helping settle DD in. This has made it a bit more stressful for you. You can send in items from home to support DD eg photo of you, scarf that smells of you, DD comfort toy....You can call key person during the day to check how DD is doing. They may do a daily diary/ electronic learning platform you can access to see how she is doing. You will feel anxious and be upset when you leave DD. That is absolutely normal. It gets easier as you get confident DD has bonded with key person and settled. Good luck to you both.

She will be fine. Honestly.

I was exactly the same back at September- dd3 had never been with anyone but family. Same set up due to covid. She literally breezed in, had a great time and we have had no issues at all.

It will actually be fine - i work at a nursery - and to be honest this way is better - parents coming in make it harder to settle the child - it’s much easier to just leave us to it and the child usually settles pretty fast! If there are any problems / child is upset we call you back :)

Try not to worry