I too had a big adjustment with J - he was 18 mths and was quite an independant soul but when it came to me leaving him there he wasn't so happy. As PP have mentioned though he cried while I was there, and I would leave and go to work (crying the whole way) and the girls would call me or I would call them 10 minutes later to make sure he was ok. He would stop crying basically the minute I left and I would pick them up and he would start up again and they would look at me perplexed and say "he hasn't cried all day!!". It took about a month of 2 days a week for us to settle in and now he talks about his carers all the time and days like today when I am on holidays I dropped them both off happily - both ran to the door because they missed out last week from being sick.

Babbling now but yes I think he will fine, it will be an adjustment and TBH I think the longer you wait the worse it can be. Almost like the more he knows the more he might dig in??? Iz was ok but she had days where she would say she wasn't going etc and she was closer to 3 when we started and I think with both that I should have started them a bit earlier but thats just me!

Good luck, it is hard and if they are crying it can bring up all sorts of horrible mummy guilt, but I will never forget what his carers said, that they are not there to watch a child get hysterically upset for an entire day. If he was too distressed at any point in time they would be calling me in a flash and it turns out they were right and all he needed was some toast!