I've recently gone back to work and my 9 month DS has started going to nursery for 3 half days a week. This is his first week. He cries whenever I leave him and pick him up, which I take as him just needing time to settle in and the ladies who work there say he is slowly getting better during the days. He's only there for 4 hours max at a time.
However, last night I went to collect him and he was sitting on the floor on his own crying. I went over and picked him up and he had scratches all down one side of his face. There were no other babies nearby who could have done this. I asked the lady who was near him what had happened and she just shrugged and called another girl over and asked her. This lady said he had been rolling around on a mat and maybe scratched himself on some velcro. This is very believable and is probably what happened however shouldn't the staff have noticed this before I pointed it out to them?
I really want to think that my DS is being well cared for but walking in on him crying by himself with bright red obvious scratches that noone has noticed has made me concerned. I don't want to overreact as I know accidents happen.
I'd really like some advice on whether this sounds wrong or not??!
Also I'm aware of the 1-3 ratio, sometimes when I go in the room there seems to be many more babies to people (I guess while staff prepare drinks/do nappies etc) does anyone know the exact rules on this?