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23 month old suddenly clingy/crying in the morning when arriving at the nursery

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TinyTear · 07/01/2014 15:27

My 23 month old has been going to nursery since she was 9 months old and always loved it. She would arrive there and run off to breakfast without a wave...

Now we just had 2 week Christmas holiday and started on 2nd January at a new nursery - although it is the same group of the old one - so one member of staff and a few kids are familiar...

I know it's early days but the past few days she has cried and cried when we drop her off...

We also have 3 molars cutting and a streaming cold, so maybe that, together with having spent 2 weeks with mummy and daddy and then suddenly going to a new building with uniform and a more 'school like' approach than the other nursery are making her more clingy...

when we pick her up she has stopped crying quickly and enjoys the day (she babbles/tells us what she did and seems to have fun) but the morning first 5 minutes are being tough...

tell me it's just a phase, right?

I hope that by mid-January she will be fine...

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TinyTear · 08/01/2014 09:38

Proper sobby sobs again today, according to my DH who does drop off...
When I picker her up yesterday she was fine though, telling me how she played outside and did painting and ate all her lunch...

Is there anything we can do to help her?

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Deliaskis · 08/01/2014 12:06

We've been on and off with nursery drop offs, go through periods of being fine and then periods of being more clingy. It's really hard.

From your OP, it really sounds like it is just a combination of lots of things....new setting, a bit poorly/toothy, had you to herself for 2 weeks.

If you know she's fine after you've gone, then there can't be anything seriously wrong, and I'm sure she'll be fine again in a few weeks. Don't really know what to suggest, but we had some success with talking about the following day at bedtime...tomorrow's nursery you can play with the thingy and see all your friends etc. so she knew what to expect, and also taking a favourite toy in to show her friends, or her comforter if necessary. Also nursery staff came to realise that she'd be better off with a cuddle and story first to get her settled.

Try not to feel too bad, it will pass!

D

TinyTear · 08/01/2014 14:19

Thanks.
That is a good plan, to check what would calm her down after we leave. Usually she has breakfast on arrival, which is what she was used to before, I will ask if she eats breakfast well...

Shall also talk to her about her friends. I think her best friend T hasn't started yet, so might ask when he is due to come back...

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