should I take my son out of nursery when new baby arrives?

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I am expecting a second baby, due this week. Our first son (2 yrs old) goes to nusery three days a week, and will keep doing so whilst I am on maternity leave. Do you think he should stay at home with us for one or two weeks initially when the new baby arrives, or shall we keep to his normal routine? Any thoughts welcome - many thanks!!

I think that as he's been going 3 times a week anyway, I'd keep taking him but make lots of extra fuss of him too (especially you as his mummy once baby 2 comes). My DD kind of turned into a daddy's girl (he bathed her, played with her etc) but she really needed time with just me and no baby.
He'll need a break to himself to so being able to express himself at playschool will give him time on his own too with his friends.

I kept my 2 yr old going to nursery when I had my 3rd baby. I felt that keeping her in her normal routine would minimse the stress for her.

If this is a well-established bit of his routine and you can afford to keep it going, I'd stick with it. A new baby at home will have minimal impact on his nursery day, as the others have said.
You can do shorter days for him perhaps (I did this for ds when my mat leave started )

I think keeping the normal routine is essential, you don't want thim to feel pushed to one side, but you don't need make too man allowances either (except for erratic behaviour). I just tried to make babyno2 fit in in our life as seamlessly as possible, tryying to make dd1 feel involved, but at the same showing her that nothing had chnaged in her life really, we justt had an exra person in our family.

Good luck

I think keeping him off for a couple of days is sensible, basically until you think he is ready. I think we did one or two days and that seemed plenty for dd1.

Good luck!

Many thanks everyone - will keep to the routine and make sure to spend a lot of quality time with him on his two days 'off'