Nursery workers- does crying stop you liking the child/toddler

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Being silly probably but I just feel worried. DD2 is teething badly (back molars) and has periods of being really grizzly for the past fortnight. When I’ve picked her up from nursery they’ve said she’s great in the morning but grizzly and unsettled in the afternoon. Today the lady said she had been upset and said ‘she’s got a good set of lungs’ with an eye roll. She’s normally very sweet and happy and I can see from the updates she’s playing and smiling in the day. I’m worried they are going to start finding her annoying if she’s always crying in the afternoons. She’s not even a PFB so I don’t know why it’s bothering me- I know she won’t be crying loads and just unsettled on and off but in the baby room she was so happy and settled im finding it a bit hard. Due to covid ive never been inside and only met her (lovely!) key worked at handovers which are fairly brief.

Nursery workers- do you get annoyed with crying kids? Does it put you off them and end up not engaging as much? No judgement from me I want the truth!

Grizzly teething baby-no, just makes me want to help them
Grizzly tired, whiny toddler-yes, I’m afraid i do feel less like interacting with them but professionally I have to push through that.
Combination of both noises is extremely draining!

@lordalmighty your post brought tears to my eyes, how heartbreaking

Off topic but I think lots of nurseries don’t administer calpol or ibuprofen, or have stopped since the pandemic broke out. Ours has a zero calpol policy because it could mask a Covid fever.

I’m hoping @lordalmighty wouldn’t give too much more info on that patient, it’s their personal information. It would be wrong to share detailed info on their circumstances even if they can’t be identified.

But yes, some babies given up or removed at birth who are unwell in hospital and so aren’t with foster carers may be only taken care of by staff until they’re well enough to be discharged and can be placed with a carer.

Absolutely @PassionfruitOrangeGuava, I was only asking to make sure I hadn’t got wrong end of stick, not to ask for personal details. I didn’t know that happened, I thought babies went straight to a foster carer (I understood that they usually know if baby will be taken into care straight away), given how critical they say close contact is that early on.

Sorry to derail OP! I’m interested in nursery responses too.

@BakeOffRewatch sadly some babies won't be well enough to go straight to foster care if their mothers were perhaps addicts or they were born prematurely etc.

I deal with all sorts of behaviours at my school and once the behaviour has been dealt with you move on, we don’t hold their actions against them. If we did we wouldn’t work on that environment.

Re: babies on their own, sometimes the baby is in a specialist NICU / SCBU in a different city, sometimes hundreds of miles away from home and for a number of reasons the parents can't be there all the time. The Ronald McDonald Foundation do truly incredible work in enabling parents to be near the children