My baby has been bitten hard at nursery

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My baby (10 months) has been bitten hard by an older baby at nursery. She has a huge, deep, purple bite mark on her hand. Would you take your baby out if this happened? I don’t know how they have let this happen and apparently the child has done this before.

Poor little baby, that is awful, as terrible as it sounds, I'd give it more time and hope it doesn't happen again.

I would be angry if it happened again.

When DD2 had just turned 1 she bit DD1 (4 at the time) when I was sitting on the floor playing with them both. I was right there. She’d never done it before, and never did it again, and never bit at nursery. But you can’t always stop it just by watching closely.

Both my DDs were bitten once at nursery. It didn’t occur to me to take them out.

And I think you’re being a bit dramatic to say they lied by calling it a bite to her finger when it was her hand.

How old is this child? Doesn’t the nursery have separate spaces for different ages? Our nursery had a baby room up to 18 months, and I doubt any child in there would have been able to have a diagnosis at that age (I could be wrong).

That you knew about!

Proof?

One of mine was bitten and the other one was the biter. It’s far worse when your child is the biter. The parents will most likely be very upset - I was. Mine only did it the once and he was 2 so old enough to be told by cross mummy never to do it again. I’m sure he was watched very closely for a while at nursery, and you need to be reassured that the biter of your Dc will be watched.

You will get no where with this. That child will take priority here. I would just look for somewhere else.

Honestly there are biters at every nursery. I wouldn’t move her for this

No I wouldn’t take them out. Unfortunately these things do happen at nurseries. Am I right in saying large purple bruise means that it hasn’t broken the skin? That’s good, it should heal quickly with no marks. I would ask the nursery how they propose avoiding it happening in future but realistically staff will not be able to avoid all incidents with very young children and it unfortunately is part of accepting that things like this will happen from time to time when in a childcare setting with more children than there are staff.

my first child was bitten a few times and I was so angry, making all kinds of unreasonable demands to the nursery that this must never happen to my PFB again. I’m sure the staff were loving it 2.5 years later when my second born DS was the biter!! Tbh he’s only done it a few times and has stopped it now he is two. It seemed to be when he was 1ish and teething it happened but at that age it’s very difficult to stop unless you catch it in act.

Oh, right.
The nursery will have recorded it, it’s the law. No need for parents to “prove” anything!

So is it an older child, not a baby??? That is very concerning.

Toddler on toddler bite happens.

But an older child with SEN should not be around a 10 month old baby, that's a recipe for disaster.

I’d move. My youngest had an issue where a child kept biting her at preschool the child also had Sen she ended up being bitten every bloody day by the little Hannibal. We pulled her out as there was always an excuse because Sen.

My child isn’t someone else’s chew toy.