Advice on nursery

[momoflandb]

Hello everyone. My LO is 18 months old. We started sending her to nursery. First day I was with her and she was playing around and we were there for one hour. Today was her second day at nursery and she was for one hour on her own. When I went to pick her up she was crying. The teacher at the nursery said she was happy till 45 min and just started crying only from a few minutes. The nursery wants me to book sessions one month in advance. Please could you give your suggestions and share your experiences on how to increase the hours of stay at the nursery?

Be guided by the Nursery, as to what they think will work.
Every child is different and every Nursery is different.
Many children do better with a longer session - they don't like the actual 'parting' but once distracted, are then fine. Or sometimes are fine until other parents come to collect other dc.

Many dc do better by doing for a few sessions across the week, so it becomes 'normal routine'. DOing just one session a week is sort of like starting again each time and can take a long time to settle.

Thank you for your help. 🙂

We started by doing an afternoon. Bringing him in after lunch so he just had the quick snack they had at 3:30pm. Then after two of those we did a full day but did 9 -4pm. Now he does 2 full days a week and has progressed socially so much

We started with an hour session. After 3 days of hour sessions we started sending my LO for the morning club which are from 8 am to 1pm. She is going two days a week. She has been there for 5 sessions till now. She cries when I drop her in the morning and I pick her up at 1. The people at the nursery say she calms down after a 15 -20 min. I am not sure what to do, is there anything I can do to keep her calm when I drop her.

Having worked in a nursery, this is honestly what usually happens! Sometimes I swear kids could recognise the rate of their parents keys, or their footsteps coming down the hall way and would immediately start sobbing, and then it looked like they'd been upset all morning. They really hadn't.

What I used to do when my DS was settling, was occasionally sneak a peek before I actually went into his room. Sure enough he'd be fine and then immediately cry when he saw me.

He did 2 mornings a week to start and it took him a month before the tears stopped. Best thing you can do (as long as you have no concerns about the actual nursery) is be really positive, big smiles and don't let her see that you're anxious or upset

Thanks for sharing your experiences.