Enrolling Primrose at Nursery

This was taken after Primroses first enrolment session

This was on St Patricks Day dressed in all the Irish colours

This was taken recently, after nursery one day in the cheekiest mood ever being very funny & mischievous 

When the time come of finding Primrose a nursery for her to go too, somewhere i trust other people to take care of my child as much as i do and get to experience her doing new things and taking her next adventures in life, HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT!!!
When did my baby get this old already? how is she old enough to start going making some friends and socialising with other children? I cannot even deal with this situation right now!

Once i got my head around all the crazy thoughts that were going through my head, i thought the best thing for me to do was get some advice from my social network friends and family and them who lived close to me and see where they suggest or if they wanted to recommend have any nursery's local to me. 
I asked the question on Facebook - Suddenly i had like 30+ comments all with people telling me where to look to take primrose, this helped me a lot and gave me a starting point in where to organise viewings.
I went with the majority and got a viewing at a nursery in the same location as us, me and prim's dad went to the viewing. We instantly loved it, we had such a nice experience walking round meeting all the children in there, they looked mega happy and like they was having the time of there life(this made me feel so much better straight away knowing children are happily playing). it may sound super stupid but I liked the little things like:

•  There food routine - the timing of the meals and the amount of smaller meals they had (known as snack time)
• The number ratio of staff to children in one room
• The amount of nappy changes they schedule in each day(so you knew they were getting fresh nappies on regularly) 
• The fact each child had a key worker who work closely with individuals to build a strong trusting relationship with and they work a lot on that child's development

 Just little things like that, that reassured me Primrose will be fine and she will love going to nursery and playing with all the children. 

I definitely think it’s really important you wait to get that feel good factor when looking for the perfect nursery for your child. It’s such a big step for you both, you want to make sure you’re 100% happy with where you’re going to be leaving them.

Primrose had around 4 settling in sessions in the run up to her start date, the first one we stayed the whole hour with her, speaking with the nursery teachers about all the different children there and the experiences they have with all the babies, they literally was telling me how there day goes in that room. The second one i took her in, i stayed for half an hour and then left her for half an hour, she didn't even flinch that i had walked out of the room, she was having too much fun exploring all the new objects and toys. The last couple she was left on her own the whole time, again she didn't even look back.  The staff were are amazing each time and give me such a detailed report about how she's been, it made me feel so much better that she had such successful settling in sessions and she was taking to nursery so well. It made me realise she is such a grown up little baby now!! 

I think Primrose took to the fact i am always going to be coming back for her and that nursery is a nice place to play and enjoy herself. 

First day at work - i woke up bright and early ready to go back to work, everything was fine i had my morning milky coffee so i felt like i was ready!! 

I left my house without seeing primrose as she was still sleeping, i was driving to work thinking about how she was going to be and whether she was going to be OK and then it just hit me again that shes actually starting nursery. I had a little cry to myself on the car journey and now I am left feeling upset and guilty not knowing whether it’s the right thing to do or not.

I couldn't wait to finish work and go and pick her up, i got there and as soon as she seen my face her little eyes opened wide with excitement, i gave her the biggest kiss ever :) she made me feel so proud of her. 

Were now into our 3rd month of Nursery and she absolutely loves it!!

This is a major step in motherhood so i thought I’d share my experience as I’m sure lots of you have been through it or will go through it at some point.... there is light at the end of the tunnel. 

Be strong!

Love

PAIGE PICKERING