Tips for starting daycare/rtn 2 work

my biggest tip (being an ex manager of an under two's daycare) would be to do transition visits. Stay with her the first couple of visits and then if the centre allows (we did) pop home, up the road etc for an hour or so then come back so its not such a shock the first day!

Another tip if you can afford it, start her at daycare the week before you return to work, you can leave her for slightly longer each day until on the Friday you leave her for a full day. This means you wont spend your first day back at work stressing about how her first day is going if that makes sense.

Hope that helps

I agree with everything sarahm said! We did about 3 weeks of transition visits (starting for 30 minutes with me there) graduating up to T being there for about 3 hours, having a feed and a sleep.

I also started him a week before I went back to work. I was a blubbering mess the first day, so it was great to be able to go to a friend's house for a coffee rather than work! Also, it's nice to have some time to yourself before you go back to work

Good luck - it's a hard adjustment initially, but it does become easier and before you know it, it's just the norm.