I had postnatal anxiety and am still under psychiatric care for it, so I really don't know if IABU or not.
Dr suggested DS goes to nursery one day a week to help me 'let go' and trust other people (he is only 18 months old, but we live several hours away from family and only moved here recently, so no babysitters to hand ). DH was really keen, as it allows me to work a bit and/or socialise, which I admit I haven't been good at since we moved.
The thing is we spent a long time finding a nursery I was comfortable with. DS loved the settling in phase, but when I left him for the first time last week it was awful. He also came home with a big bloody blister on his thumb where he had trapped it under a rocking horse. They also complained that he eats too much (even though he is not at all fat - I already had this conversation with health visitor because I didn't know how much he should eat).
The next week he was hysterical when I tried to leave and they just pinned him and shouted over at me to leave. When I picked him up they told me he had been 'difficult' all day and that he is whiney if he doesn't get to go outside.
He probably is a bit whiney, but it hurt me to hear someone saying he was difficult. I'm probably just being overprotective mum, but he's only been there two weeks and he is already being marked out as clearly not one of the 'favorites' (kids who have been going there everyday since they were weeks old). I'm concerned that the staff won't treat him well, or just ignore him if they don't like him. AIBU? Is it normal?
DH thinks I am just being oversensitive and points out that I picked this nursery out of a long list of ones we visited, but it makes me want to cry every time I think about having to leave him with people who don't love him.