First day nursery experiences

I've just put my child for a settle in session, and I'm feeling major guilt. They stayed for an hour without me in the room, and when I went back in. They saw me and started to hyperventilate crying, and that's when I saw they had peed. When I felt it, it was cold. So mummy instinct is feeling really angry that my child has pee and has stayed in wet clothes. They say it hadn't been long, and I was informed to expect some accidents in the first couple of days. All I'm after is what your experiences were with your little ones on their settling in sessions and how long it took to settle them. Thank you

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the first day is always the hardest. the first week even is always a little off but after a month my son didn’t even care when i would drop him off he wouldn’t even say bye lol 😆 he would just run in the classroom and play with his friends and pay no mind to me. i’m sure ur child wasn’t upset until they saw u (they always do that even my son would do this on occasion at pickup and start crying even though i would be watching from afar and he would be having fun). about the accidents it IS true that with the change of going to daycare they will have regressions and accidents until they get adjusted and seeing as u said they were only in there for an hour it really couldn’t have been long that they had peed themselves. give your child some grace this is a huge change for them so of course they’re going to cry, regress, etc. and i’m sure ur child is feeding off ur energy too so try to be neutral at best. good luck 🤍

My boy crawled off with some other kids without looking back and could be heard laughing loudly through in the sensory room (it was definitely him). My boy loves nursery but he’s always been very social and he had lots of socialisation before nursery. Maybe it’s not the nursery. Different children react different.

@Annie like Annie said sometimes it was picking my boy up that was the problem. He wanted to stay and play.

Yeah, shes very social normally. i don't have many friends with children. They only have one cousin here that she sees once pr twice a week that's a child, and then the rest are teenagers. I do take them to soft plays and baby groups since a baby. I'm hoping they'll be OK, protective mother in me is like ah stuff it but I know it'll be good for her once they're settled. I am abit shocked how their first time there I wasn't in the room with them as I thought that's what would happen and then the next time out of the room. I know regressions are nor.al but they claim they had only just peed but her trousers were cold, if it had just happened they still would have been warm so that's peeved me off a bit. But just have to wait and see

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