Thank you so much everyone. Well, we are now leaning towards moving preschools, starting fresh and asking if we can do short days for a while.

Bath - eesh $80 a day! Our current one is $51, and i think at the end of the day after CCB it works out to be about $24 a day. This preschool we are looking at is $35 a day, with potentially nothing in CCB. But it follows school terms, we don't pay for public holidays, so it actually balances out about the same per year as where we are now! Only thing is we'll be upping it to 2 days, so might hurt the pockets a bit more.

Anyway, after reading your responses, and also msging a friend who works in child care, who also had her son at this preschool, I'm quite keen to get him in there, and if 2 days is too much, I'll try and move him to just 1 day later if I need to. We know lots of people who have used it, and highly recommend it. The teachers there are lovely, and I love the parental involvement in these community preschools. There's been no offer of any involvement at our current one, and TBH I wasn't that keen on the director there. The carers in the room are lovely, just the director didn't click with me.

I'm still a bit nervous about it all tho, the 2 days thing. Just today I left DS with mum while I popped out to pick up DH from the station (5 mins), and DS flipped out, crying 'don't go mummy'. And mum said he kept saying 'mummy isn't coming back'. So I had a nice long talk to him in bed tonight about how mummy always comes back, and about how fun the new school we visited today would be. He still said that he would cry, and I asked him why.. mummy will pick him up in the afternoons, it's just like when I leave him at nana's.. he plays with lego, has something to eat, does some painting.. and then mummy comes back to pick him up. He looked like he was comprehending what I was saying, so I'll try and drill it into him a bit more LOL.

Thanks again everyone