To feel a bit pissed off at the Nursery?

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Firstly to say, the nursery is AMAZING. Staff so kind, so caring and DD has settled really well there. No complaints otherwise.

DD, for the second time has been sent home with a temperature (they're a no calpol nursery, don't think we realised the full implications of this when we registered her there!)

The last time was a couple of weeks ago, thought it was a bit odd as I dropped her off at 8.30 all fine and at 10am got a call to go and get her as she had a temp of 38 for more than 10 minutes. She's teething bad and has been for a while so I suspected teeth. Left work and got there to pick her up for her to be happy, giggling. Got her home, took it again and it had gone down to 37.8, took it again 20 min later, 37.3. That was the end of that.

It's just happened again. Went to get her and she was screaming on her keyworker's lap, but annoyingly, they hadn't given her her dummy (it really helps with teething pain and just soothing her and getting her to stop crying in general) They know she uses the dummy as a comforter if she's upset so no idea why they hadn't given it to her as I think she'd been crying for a while at that point.

I think it's teething yet again as she was dribbling when I went to pick her up. Got her home, happy as larry, temp after 10 mins being at home was 37.6.

I'm now yet again going to have to try and get work done, with a perfectly well toddler running around when she could just be in nursery.

I want to ring and say to the manager that she's a hot baby in general (she is) and that she's teething atm so she might be a bit grizzly and if that's the case, please give her the dummy otherwise she'll work herself up so much that she'll get hot, get a temp and then we'll have to go and get her.

I know I probably ABU, but it just feels like such a waste, having her here when there's nothing wrong with her and she could be in nursery. She's had so much time off lately for genuine illness which doesn't help either.

Babies are not toys to be passed around. They want to be held by as few people as possible in the fourth trimester. Ideally they just want one or two primary caregivers and the baby's mum needs some hands on help which is being provided by her own mother.

I have no idea how my reply ended up on your thread OP. Sorry.

Anything over 37.8 is a temperature OP. I have a child who runs hot and on average sits at 37.5-37.7. 38 is a low grade fever and policy would be to send home. Is it worth dosing her up before you send her in on bad teething bouts?

Some nurseries do this because they are understaffed and need to get rid of a child to satisfy carer to child ratios. I know a parent whose child was always the one sent home because she lived close enough to come and get them. One time she was working away and referred the nursery to the father who worked over an hour away. After a couple of instances doing this, where it wasn't so easy to come and get the child, the phone calls from nursery tapered off. Guess they found another unsuspecting locally based schmuck. So maybe if your kid is generally fine, don't make yourself too available for them and see if that makes a difference.

Yanbu it’s bloody annoying when that happens. They should use some common sense and if a child is well in themselves , happy, eating and drinking and only a slight temp it’s probably fine.
Worrying about spreading infection is pointless, as it’ll be too late by then anyway.