AIBU to change nursery?

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I'd like to look at other nurseries for my son but I feel quite bad about it. My son seems quite settled and happy there but he is only 1 so he obviously can't tell me otherwise, but he goes over to them without a fuss.

He recently moved rooms from the baby room to the toddler room and I just get a very stand off-ish vibe from some of the workers in there. I don't really know how to explain it. There have also been a couple of other issues which I have wrote about on here and told others wouldn't have been happy with it either.

The girls who worked in the room he was in previously were lovely and approachable. His new room just seems so different. Some of the workers are still friendly but the majority of them seem really standoffish like I say, I wouldn't feel comfortable raising an issue with them if that makes sense? It feels very cliquey is the only way I can describe it. The manager too is the same.

But I don't know if I'm being reasonable or not considering removing my son because of a feeling I'm getting when he seems happy enough. Would it be cruel to him to take him out now and start him somewhere completely new when I don't have a real concrete reason just a 'feeling'?

If your son is happy and settled, it seems OTT to take him out because you have a ‘feeling’. In the toddler room, there may be more children per adult, and toddlers are more demanding than babies. The workers are probably run off their feet.

I'd probably stay put if he's happy, what happens if you move him somewhere else and he doesn't settle in the new place. I'd usually say go with your gut but if something wasn't right you'd know by your sons behaviour.

I would hang on a little bit longer.
He's recently moved, you are yet to build a relationship with them.

If something felt 'off' about the place I left my toddler all day, I'd move her in a heartbeat.

Could you be more specific? It's normal for the toddler room to have shorter handovers with less info, for example, and there's generally more of a rough and tumble vibe than the gentle baby room.

There's one woman in our DC's nursery who DH and I just can't warm to, but DDs love her and she's great fun so we roll our eyes and accept it's not a big deal.

I think if your DC is happy and all the other kids look happy, I’d hold off for a bit. The vibe at our nursery was off a bit and it turned out to be the manager and everyone was terrified of them - once they left, it was like a cloud had lifted.

Do you know any other parents there? Could you ask them and see if they feel the same?

I only know one other parent there but their child is younger and still in the babies room, they said they aren't sure about it either, not sure whether theirs like it or not.