Normal for lots of babies to be crying their eyes out in nursery?

[TrixieLox]

Our nursery called today to say my daughter has a rash and seems ill so best I take her home. When I collected her, several of the toddlers in her room were crying their eyes out, looking quite unhappy. Is this normal? It was about 10.30 so not near nap time or lunch.

I posted before about collecting my daughter from her first full day there and she looked a state, but nothing was mentioned (think she had a reaction to the glue in her painting). She's only in there 2 days a week but has got more and more upset each time I drop her off. Of course, this could be because she's ill (turns out she has an upper respiratory infection).

I just feel a bit 'off' about this nursery. Has outstanding OFSTED reports and great feedback from work colleagues. But they don't seem to tell us much, e.g., we don't get a sheet of things she's eaten, behaviour like friends do at other nurseries / childminders.

To add to seeing a bunch of crying children there today, I don't know, I don't feel right about things and am wondering if I should explore childminder options. Am I being paranoid?

Not all of anything are the same are they? Nobody is thick enough to think so. I'm just teasing.

Fid

I'm not happy to pretend they are all the same, you chicken
call a spade a spade me.

Harold

Don't take fid on, she's a bad girl sometimes.

I don't know if you can spot it from my posting times morethan but I've been awake for 36 hours straight. I've got no energy left for scrapping tonight.

Don't take fid on, she's a bad girl sometimes.

I'll tell DH that. I got accused of being boring earlier for wanting to stay in and do the gardening.

Why have you been up for 36 hours? How bad are you exactly?

I had to eat my sandwiches standing on the toilet in my secondary school.

You won't get any arguments from me about their zoo-like potential.

Are you going to do some gardening with your spade called a spade? You've got a few of them >

I am really intrigued as to how someone who states they have been a SAHM for the past 20 plus years can comment on nursery provision ( they have never used) and call it a Zoo.
I have never used nursery and I shared care 50/50 with DH - yes have been on tons of threads.

I don't know what current nursery provision is like for 3 year olds as my DC are 20,17,13.
How does someone with DC in their 20s,teens and age 9/10 know what current nursery provision is like - when they state they are a SAHM .

Harold

No, I leave that for dh and the boys. I go out and dead head and pull up weeds sometimes.
I'm supposed to be downloading resources for dd, but have lost the will tonight. Not even sure what subjects to do now.
Ok Pick a subject Harold or Fid, not language or music obviously.
Nor Maths or English, I make her do boring books for these

I was just looking for things off the back of 'Shopgirls' on BBC2 the last two Tues evenings. Hadn't got far though... Did you see them?

(social history, in case you didn't)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0485k0s

And now I must sleep

I love

I have visited many across 3 counties over the years, and have friends who are nn, you don't have to use them yourself to know what they are like, some of them anyway

Fid

Missed it as loads on atm, have been out so much.
Will have a look now and thanks.
Have a good rest, love x

In what context though morethan?
Sorry if I am being nosy but why does a SAHM visit nurseries ????

I have friends who are gps and teachers - it doesnt mean I am able to completely understand what they do.

When did you last go to a nursery ?
Unless you have used one yourself or worked in one in the last 3 years I am baffled as to how you are forming your opinions .

At my ds's nursery babies do sometimes cry, my ds went through a stage of being very sad when he woke up, he was the same at home, a friend's baby really stuggled to settle, she cried alot.

I agree that it depends how the carers were reacting, I never saw any child crying alone, they were always being cuddled or carried around and softly spoken to.

A good thing about my ds's nursery is that the group he is in has 1-4 year olds so it not a large group of babies setting each other off.

I don't get reports of exactly what ds has eaten or exactly how long he slept or what activities he has done, his teacher mentions things if they are unusual like he didn't eat very much lunch or he really loved playing in the toy kitchen today and she tells me little stories but I don't feel like I need a written report.

There is another thread going that is already making this one look like a love fest.

Ilove

I was a teacher for a while but it didn't work out. My students were qualifying level 3 teaching assistants working in pre schools. Here they are attached /same building as nursery. I know some in some counties are separate and pre schools are more like school.
I only did 2 years. I have friends who tell me their experiences and a couple of students I kept in touch with as they are now nn and child minders in the area.
It was a case of thinking the grass was greener, but it wasn't.
sorry I took so long to respond, I missed your post.

Morethan, but how like zoos?

Re the zoo comment - someone we know pulled their DD out of a nursery because he went to pick her up while they were all outside and thought it was like a prison exercise yard, feral children running wild I love that analogy for max guilt!

I get the guilt OP - not for putting DD in nursery but because I am so glad to leave her there and go to work, and when she is ill my first thought is the inconvenience. I love her dearly but need 24 hours a week doing something else, I find the relentless nature of toddler wrangling a lot harder than I thought I would.

"It was a case of thinking the grass was greener but it wasn't"

Sorry I don't understand what you mean ?

She tried WOHMing and didn't like it, I think.

Or at least not as much as being a SAHM.