After she came out of theater I could hear her screaming and crying and it took the nurses 10 minutes to come and get me so I could calm her down....I should have been in there when she woke up but anyway.....
I'm sorry to hear your DD was so distressed . Unfortunatley it is a common side effect of anesthetic - especially on little people. Often children also wake distressed because they have woken in a strange place with strange people and they usually have equipment attached to them which can be scary for adults, let alone children.

Unfortunatley, you can't always go into recovery as a parent - it's not about the parent calming a child down; it's about the nursing staff making sure the child is safe and stable first and the first 15-20 minutes after waking are our most critical. Hearing your child in distress is very unnerving, especially when your gut reaction is to be a Mummy and comfort them. But it can be as equally distressing to see them unconscious, or hooked up to wires, or to see another very ill patient in the recovery area who might have a lot going on. So, from a nursing point of view, we have to think about the safety of all our patients before bringing family into a recovery area. Peadeatrics is the only area (with very few exceptions) a family member will ever be allowed into a recovery area and even then it is at the discretion of the nursing staff, if we don't think a patient is stable enough for family to be present or that we have a critical situation or a situation that we consider too risky to have non-staff present, we won't send for you.