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Community nursery nurse Christine Healey describes what she's been doing since she left a school nursery Monday

Monday

My eldest son and girl/boy twins are now old enough to go to school on their own, so with the three of them gone by 7.45am, I enjoy a stress-free breakfast.

For the past year I've been working for the Croydon and Surrey Downs Community NHS Trust as a community nursery nurse, working alongside health visitors in south London. I changed from my old job in a school nursery class after reading an article in Nursery World - it made community nursery nursing sound really interesting!

I'm not at the health centre where I'm usually based this morning but in another one, joining health visitors and nursery nurses for a training session on the early signs of post-natal depression. A tough subject for Monday morning, but an important one.

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