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?

Oh fair enough- I preferred the balance of SAH/WOH PT as did DH.

Me too

TBH my name is forrin-sounding and unpronouncable and impossible to spell.

I still gave it to the DC

Oops wrong thread

I've got an interview in a few weeks for a flexible 2 day from home actual job.

I want it so bad I think I might combust during the interview.

Don't do that. It will make you look unreliable

To be fair I am pretty unreliable, that's why I NEED to work from home

morethan, tbh it doesn't sound like you know much about nurseries at all. I also know people who work in them and indeed people who use them but I don't think that gives me any more information about what they are like than, well, pretty much anyone else in this country. I certainly wouldn't put myself forward as an expert and I'm baffled as to why you do.

Cruikshanks

I know enough about nurseries to know if it is a zoo when I visited it.
I also don't know much about chickens, but know a rotten egg when I see one.
Expert, hmm I'm pretty sure I said the ones I'd visited, not that I'm an expert. Perhaps you could show me?

sobs at apparent futility of trying to get morethan to elaborate or explain what she means

Morethan - I really don't think you know enough about zoos to draw the comparison. A crap nursery would be nothing like a zoo.

I think there are good nurseries, there are bad ones too.
I wouldn't consider using day care though. I prefer to stay with my children. I do earn though, I work online, I am self employed.