My 4 year old has swapped to his new nursery 3 months ago and I don’t think we’ve had a single week illness free. His last nursery, he caught 1 cold a month. This one is brutal. We’ve had Covid 2 times, sickness and diarrhoea, colds, bacterial conjunctivitis and now tonsillitis and strep.
I’m at my wits end with it, I have a 13 month old who is catching all of this too, she caught the sickness bug when she was 10 months old and her bowel movements still aren’t back to normal, she’s been given a laxative to take daily but it isn’t helping much.
He also has a tantrum every morning when I’m getting him ready, and when he’s dropped off he gets very clingy and some days even cries that he wants to go home again. Since starting, he’s been wetting himself again, he has stopped sleeping through the night so I’ve not slept properly in these 3 months either, and his already bad eating habits have gotten worse. We’re trying so hard to get him to eat better but we’re not getting anywhere, yet in his nursery they give him ice cream and cakes regardless if he eats his food or not. So I guess he’s getting confused because in there he gets rewarded for not eating and he gets angry that we don’t do the same here.
I’ve spoken to them about my concerns but it falls on deaf ears.
He gets hit in the head a lot by another child, there was one occasion where I was called to collect him because he had fell over a wire in the nursery garden and they said he possibly needed hospital treatment where the cut in his head was so deep.
Me and my partner are both thinking it’s best to withdrawal him from nursery and just fill his days up with stuff at home instead, but I feel like I have pressure on me by his HV to send him so he can socialise.
I don’t work so we aren’t sending him in with no other choice. But when I tell my son about leaving nursery, one minute he will say yes and that he doesn’t like nursery and then in the next breath he will say he likes nursery and it’s making me feel guilty and torn of what to do for the best.