Our little girl started nursery 2 weeks ago meant to be Thursday and Friday full days- she’s never been looked after by anyone but me and DH so we expected it might take a while to settle her in!
First proper week after 2 x 1hrs settling in sessions she lasted until lunchtime and we were asked to collect her on the first day as she hadn’t eaten and was distressed, second day the same!
Second week the same thing except the Friday she fell asleep so we were asked to collect her once she’d woken up as she was upset!
This week same again yesterday despite there being a photo uploaded to the app that she was in the garden playing happily!
Today DH got a call to collect at 10 as she wasn’t happy and hadn’t had anything to drink so he duly went off to collect her to find her happily playing in the garden…. How is she ever going to get used to it if we’re continuously collecting her with never having done a full day? Are nursery just calling us because they know we’ll pick her up? What if we couldn’t come and collect straight away?
Obviously we don’t want to traumatise her but but after next week when DH starts his new job it’s not going to be as easy for us to go and get her as well both be working and we’re paying for full days which she hasn’t ever done?
No childminders with availability so switching settings isn’t an option at the moment!