\nAdrian is starting at nursery. It’s going so-so.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe schooling in started two weeks ago. He liked the nursery but only as long as Eric was with him. They kept at it, then lost a few days to illness last week, and continued this week.\n<\/p>\n
\nMost of this week was a mess. Adrian refused to eat lunch at nursery. He has been sort of picky recently but now he refused all food, even bread and bananas and other things that he normally loves. Naturally he was ravenous during the afternoons and evenings – and nights, too, so he’d wake hungry at around 5 in the morning, and have trouble going back to sleep.\n<\/p>\n
\nSo he was tired before the day even started. And he barely slept at nursery – woke from his naps after 40 minutes, instead of the hour and a half he’d normally sleep. He woke crying and tired and unhappy, but wouldn’t even consider going back to sleep. Eric would put him down for a second nap when they got home from nursery, but even so he was really tired by 7 and was out like a light the moment he finished nursing in bed.\n<\/p>\n
\nJust as I was starting to wonder what we’d do next, he\/they\/we seem to have turned a corner. Today he was at nursery without Eric, for over 5 hours. He both ate and slept properly while he was there. He’d woken too early from his nap but actually gone back to sleep – and then woken contentedly some time later.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe staff at the nursery have been absolutely lovely, doing their best to make him feel happy and secure there. When they saw the meals were a struggle, they let him be: they opened the door to the lunch room but didn’t try to bring him to the table. Today he wandered in and out and finally found some toys to play with on the lunch room floor. When he was happy there, they brought him a bowl with some pasta and sweetcorn. If Adrian won’t come to the food, the food will come to Adrian… even if it is in the middle of the floor. And he actually ate some. When it was time for the mid-afternoon snack he went to sit with the rest of the kids at the table and ate one whole banana and two large sandwiches.\n<\/p>\n
\nFingers crossed for Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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