Mt little girl is 22 months old and is going to nursery 2 full days a week since September. The first day there she loved it. I was planning on staying for an hour or so but she didn't seem to need it, and barely noticed when I popped out for an hour and left her to it. The next day she stayed longer, and again seemed to enjoy it. I thought I was the luckiest mum, it was so easy.
But ever since then she's cried when we arrive into her room, and when I pick her up she's crying too. Over the last few weeks the crying seems to be more and more frequent throughout the day, not just when I'm there. I get the impression that she spends most of the day totally miserable I put it down to perhaps coming down with a cold which we all had, but this morning she was in great humour until we started walking to nursery, and then seems to have been crying since I dropped her off. She was in bits when we got home, tired and sad. It's so awful to see her like this as she's usually so bubbly and full of good humour.
My question is, is it normal for 'settling in' to get worse? Does it usually take months? Could it really be a miserable place? Please tell me it gets better, I'm so gutted for my little girl.