My little DD is nearly 18 months old, and she has recently started at nursery for 2 days a week. I went back to work in May (again, 2 days a week) when she turned one after I had a year off for mat leave, but because we were in the process of moving, we had our mums come and look after DD whilst I was at work (which was a bloody nightmare in itself, but don't get me started on that one!). We are now settled in our new house - been here 2 months - and I found the lovely nursery before we moved here. She's had some settling in sessions which were ok, but she cried a lot when being dropped off and also at pick up time. DH does the morning drop off now and I collect - he says that she cries a lot and becomes very clingy, but then he just goes, and she cries when she sees me in the evening. Anyhoo, today I dropped her off as she has kindly given me her lurgy and I have bronchitis and am at home dosed up with day nurse (ick), antibiotics and steroids - DH had to be in early for a meeting. My god, I can't remember when I saw her bawl so much, tears streaming down her face, snot everywhere, clinging on to me for dear life. The nursery people are lovely and say that once she is distracted she's fine, and they'll call if there's a problem. She has her bunny and a dummy (only for snooze times, don't have a go!) I feel so mean. Anyway, what I'm asking is how long does this kind of behaviour typically go on for, and will I feel like horridcrapmummy forever??!