Nursery full time?
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It’s so hard, I don’t have my baby full time at nursery but we are also trying to find a work pattern that works for us and allow us to have quality time with our baby. I have booked holidays to have a day off and requested compressed hours but my company doesn’t want to approve, I am trying to prove now that my case will work for us and them because I want to be able to spend a day with my baby where it’s not just bedtime routine.
It’s definitely hard 😩
Hi my husband is on shift work and I work full time. I have condensed my full time hours into 4 days so I just need to worry about tues to fri. We have found a nursery that actually takes my lo one on a flexible basis. As I know my husbands shift pattern months in advance I just put him in one day a week using the 15 free hours. We both use holidays to manage days where he maybe working mostly weekday. It’s a busy bees. Maybe something like this could work for you?
My son is in nursery all day Mon, Tues, Thurs & Friday morning. I dropped a Wednesday in work which breaks the week up nicely and my mum covers him on Friday afternoon. He absolutely loves Nursery and doing so well there! He reaches out to his key workers when I drop him off too Xx
My boy goes 3.5 days (8-5/5:30 tues-Thurs and 8-12:30 on Fri). He loves it so I actually think he’d be fine full time but it’s expensive and I want to spend more than just the weekend with him so I don’t miss him growing up too much x
@Rosie Thank you for this I never even considered condensing my hours. My nursery won’t accept any flexibility with dates either which is a shame as that really could’ve worked for us!
Yeh I guess we are lucky with the flexibility. It took a while to find one that did it. I recommend you enquire at different nurseries and you might find one
Me and my partner work full time so my little boy also goes full time nursery, 8am-5:30pm and has been since the first week of September. He absolutely loves it now. Eats well, sleeps well, and gets to play all day whilst learning to socialise. It's the perfect day for him 😅 and he's less shy and clingy to me/his dad when we are around other people because of it. I do miss him loads though and it was a few weeks before I stopped crying after dropping him off at nursery! I am considering dropping 2 days in work now though, to spend those 2 days with him whilst he's still little 🥺
My twins have been full time 8-6 mon-fri since August. They love it there. They've got a great schedule as well now. I didn't have the option to condense my hours and I am the breadwinner so it is what it is. The whole 'it's a long day for them logic kind of annoys me because it's just not, I'm not waking them up to go, they're up at 6:30 and go to bed like 7:45 so it's not like they lose sleep to go, their day length is the same just spent a lot of it at nursery.
I work 3 days a week 8.30-4.30pm so the kids are in nursery on those days from 8.15 till 5pm ish. I wouldn’t put them in any more days than that as it’s a long day for them. But if you are working and u have no choice then not much you can do. Ideally I would have preferred for them to go 9-3 but they don’t offer that at my nursery.