Nursery

If I didn’t have to go back to work then I wouldn’t have put any of mine into nursery until school nursery xx

yes

I’m not until the year before school, so pre school, but I’m going to have a nanny instead when I go back to work x

Yes

I put my boy into nursery & took him out 2 months later - worst thing I done was putting him in!

If I didn’t have to work then yep 😂 I opted for a childminder and I felt this was a better option than nursery

Yes

Nurseries are sooo expensive I’m considering getting a nanny. Might not be more expensive

At this point I’m considering opening a income one so I can stay at home and earn a decent income

Not bothering with nursery

@Ada works out roughly the same (without free hours for nursery taken into account). I just can’t deal with all the bugs and illnesses yet. I just think it’s ridiculous that they’re constantly sick. Loads of people on here posting about it sound like they’re going through hell 😭 ends up being pointless because they’re never even in so you still have to pay and stay home to look after them

@Lauren can I ask why your experience was so bad?

@Lorisa of course, I will keep it brief as I’m still angry about it. I provided cutlery for my son to use, they didn’t use it. They would say he ate all his lunch when infact he didn’t touch it. He constantly had nappy rash & even once they claimed he had an accident whilst asleep, the rash was that bad I had to take time off work. The last straw was he had a head injury, quite bad. No one called, nothing. They told 4 different stories on that happened & all I got on a report was ‘fell of baby slide’.

Poor little man @Lauren breaks my heart sweet boy! That’s awful !! At work we HAVE to ring and do a head monitoring form xx

@Lauren that’s absolutely horrific 😭 I’d be fuming. Did you report the nursery? I’m sorry that happened to you LO poor babes

@Charlotte honestly, I called 111 once my other half picked him up. They said they didn’t call as he cried for 5 seconds and stopped. This was a private nursery also so there was only 8 children in at a time. Appalling.

That’s awful!! Poor little thing x makes my blood boil x and gives all of us a bad name x

@Ki I wanted to report the nursery but my attention was removing him first. I didn’t care for the deposit or that. I don’t know if there’s a time limit as I haven’t thought about reporting until you just mentioned it x

@Lauren 100% I’d be the same but deffo report if you feel up to it. I just think they can’t keep getting away with things like that and I don’t think they’d be a time limit tbh, but just explain it was traumatic and you had to focus on getting him better and yourself mentally before being able to tackle it. It’s actually wild to me that people who are supposed to care for your children and others children can do things like this. It’s another reason I won’t send my LO to nursery until he can talk x

@Ki honestly, it was so heartbreaking at the time. I defo think a child should be out of nappies & able to converse on what’s going on. Not all nurseries are like it & a lot of practitioners but in 100% just I was unlucky I suppose x

No but my son didn’t go and I regretted it. I saw the difference in his development between him and the kids that did go to nursery. He also really struggled with the transition and in hindsight I don’t blame him. Going from spending every day of your life mum dad family etc and that’s all you’ve known your entire life to suddenly 5 full days a week in school is A LOT. And they only do one week settling at school. 5 half days and then they’re all in. My daughter went to nursery from 10 months half days and it was hard at first but it’s helped her a lot and I know the school transition won’t be too hard for her. They need it, they can’t develop social skills around their parents every day. Throwing them into school 5 days a week with no preparation is A LOT for them.