Did you still send your first born to nursery after 2nd child born?

[NE90]

Might be a stupid question here but if you had a second child whilst your first born was still in nursery, did you continue to send your child to nursery whilst on maternity leave? My son will be 2 when my newborn is here. He currently attends his nursery 3 days a week.

Thanks a lot x

[Greenboots]

Hi, yes. I did send mine, because he learns a lot of useful stuff at nursery. Just make sure you'll spend a lot of time with the oldest as having the second child is very painful for the first sibling. It's like after being happily married for some time your husband will bring home one day another woman and told you that from now on he loves you both and you have to learn to share him plus love this new wife :). So pay more attention to the older sibling if possible as his universe is about to collapse...

[NE90 in reply to Greenboots]

Thank you for responding. I have definitely taken note of what you said ☺

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Yes so she could play with other kids

[Pasaeoco01]

Absolutely! We continued to send our 3yr old when newborn arrived. Not everyday but just enough to give us all some space. He also loved it which helped.Agree with previous poster to ensure you make a big fuss of the eldest and set aside time to play with him - not just at bedtime.

We made a big fuss that sometimes baby had to wait whilst I played with the eldest - baby had been fed, changed and quite happy but eldest didn’t know that! Good luck x

[roxannacar]

Yep my first kept going the same. There was lots of change for her at home so keeping nursery constant for her was something that didn't change for her. she loves nursery and meant I got sometime with only baby/ and to so.chores etc. Now I have no. 3 and second still goes to nursery, in fact I increased to 4 days (mainly to do with covid tho as really can't go anywhere and it's a bit boring being home all the time).

[SRA8]

I've been thinking lots about this too. I'll probably continue fulltime for the first month then drop to 2 days a week once a bit more recovered from the birth. Ill reduce his sessions more for financial reasons.