First time to leave baby in a crèche

I returned home with a wet tissue yesterday and it wasn’t even ours. It was from the crèche Baby Girl had tested out. She had a trial session in the crèche at the Harbour Club in Chelsea and I had one in the pilates reformer class.

While other mums seemed confident and happy about getting some me-time and leaving their little ones to play, I was practically shaking. It was not a good start.

Ten-month old Baby Girl must have noticed something was up and started crying as soon as I put her down on a mat in the crèche. If it had been up to her, I’m sure we would have had two passes for the reformer class and zero for the crèche.

Before leaving her, I was reassured that a crèche assistant in a purple uniform would come get me in the pilates room if Baby Girl continued being upset, so during my 45-minutes of me-time my heart jumped only eight times when I looked through the window in the door and spotted someone dressed in purple.

The music in the pilates room also sounded a bit like crying at times, and I kept worrying I could hear Baby Girl all the way down in the basement.

But I did it. We did it. We survived the 45 minutes. Baby Girl was slightly teary-eyed when I returned and needed a tissue, but she had been chatting and laughing in the crèche too. Go Baby Girl.

Tags: Chelsea, Creche, Harbour Club, London