oh so in conclusion I think the later the better but you will know by your child. My daughter did cry with the gym creche but I would go to the toilet and walk back past the creche and she had stopped - if she hadn't of I would've gone back to her and taken her home.

Knowing that the carers would get me if she wasn't able to be settled helped too. Oh and I went to a MOPs playgroup which is 2 hours apart from your child (I cried with this one as it was the first time I'd left her with someone other than my mum) but I checked on her heaps and realised that she was fine without me. When she wasn't they always came into me and asked me to come out to her.

Sorry lots of rambling, hope that some of this made sense!