DS is 2.5. I am a teacher, and last year worked 4 days a week, DS was with a childminder that he adores. In September I went back to FT at work, and DS started at a local nursery 2 days a week, staying with the childminder for 3 days. The childminder doesn't work on Fridays, so FT there wasn't an option.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and he HATES nursery. Cries on and off all day when there, and tells me that he was sad when I pick him up. The staff are all very kind to him, but every day I find him wandering around with a sad face attached to his key worker. I am also not entirely happy with the systems at the nursery, mornings seem very chaotic and his key worker has been off sick 3 days out of the 6 he has attended.
Now here's the complication - I am 22 weeks pregnant, so he will be leaving nursery anyway at Christmas (it's near to my work and 40 mins from home, so not sustainable on mat leave.). Do I stick it out for the 2 days a week with a miserable boy knowing it will end in 12 weeks or so? His CM has offered to have him back for one extra day, would one day at nursery unsettle him even more? Or should I look for a completely different option for the one remaining nursery day and withdraw him altogether? It makes me so sad to think of him so unhappy. 