Two nurseries at the same time? Any positive stories?

[Brightstarz98]

We are moving to our dream home but unfortunately the nursery near our new home cannot accommodate all the days we need. This means my 20m old DD will need to go to one nursery x4 a week and remain at her old nursery for x1 a week until a space frees up in the new nursery. The reason I am doing this is because keeping her in her old nursery would mean she’d be in the car for an hour each day, commuting. Whereas the new nursery is only a 5 min drive away. The new nursery is also lovely and in a beautiful setting which I think will benefit her. My reasoning is because she is used to her old nursery maybe this CAN work out temporarily? Would love to hear similar experiences xx

Slightly older, but 3yos in the village I lived in then went to the preschool in the morning and were picked up by the nursery for the afternoon. So two settings in one day.

@TickingAlongNicely thanks for sharing. I suppose having regular exposure to both helps. My concern is, will she remain settled in her old nursery, with just x1 day a week.

Bumping as I’m still quite nervous about this change

How was the experience? I am dealing with same problem now. Thanks!

I had a mix of child minder and nursery, worked well, they seemed to cover each other when needed and have nice range of activities for DS

When I was on maternity leave with DD, DS started doing three days at nursery (which he’d always done to accommodate my work) but he seemed to be struggling so I dropped him down to two. A month later, I was losing my mind and I enrolled him in a local preschool for two mornings a week.

Honestly, if I had my time over I wouldn’t do it again. Both settings were lovely but I think DS would have been better with one or the other. Plenty of people do it, though. I think the main issue for me is I was reluctant for DS to do more than three days but then you end up with one day a week in one setting which isn’t ideal, if it’s four days then two in both is a better alternative.

I work in early years and I think your reasoning is sound. Ordinarily I’d say one day a week will likely take longer to settle better to do two and three days also helps the staff know her better and support her development the way that suits her best. but as it’s her old nursery she’s already settled so all the negatives are moot. In your situation I’d do the same thing x