Dairy ladder and nursery

How are we dealing with completing the dairy ladder when LO goes to nursery? I'm reluctant to give her dairy before nursery in case she has a reaction, most recently liquid 💩 or vomit, and nursery call to say she must be collected and off for 2 days. I'd completely understand them doing so as you can't guarantee it's a reaction or a stomach bug that they don't want spreading and it's not fair for them to clean up her reaction poops. But I feel like I'm holding her back. Luckily I'm a teacher so have school holidays off with baby. We completed step 1 in January when I was still on mat leave but she failed step 2 when we moved on to it at the time. Over the Easter holidays we've passed step 2 and we're on day 1 out of 3 of a full pancake for step 3 - day 3 she will be at nursery but I'm hoping if she was going to react she'd react either today or day 2 (the fail in January was immediately on day 1 of trying the step). This means waiting until May half term to try step 4 and then summer holidays for 5 and 6. Is it okay to have breaks between steps even if they're passed? I'm not in any rush, I don't plan on giving her cows milk to drink anyway just didn't know if it was okay or would cause problems? Also, do you let nursery know when they've passed a step? I'm not sure how clued up they are about the ladder etc but they're brilliant with offering dairy free meals. Would it be safe to say to them 'she can have baked things with dairy in, no icing etc' or just easier to say no dairy until the ladder is cleared?

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Our nursery are fab, we aren’t allowed to send the food in with him, he has it before nursery. He has his own sick policy, so if he is sick/diarrhoea in nursery but visibly well (no temp/ not sleepy/playing well etc) then they don’t send him home. If he is sick twice they send him home but he can go back the next day. This is whilst we are testing foods. They use common sense which is helpful as my friends nursery is totally the opposite and she hasn’t really been able to do the milk ladder at all.

I think our nursery would be like yours and completely understanding of it all. I'd definitely give her the food for breakfast before nursery, they provide all food anyway so sending it in would probably stay in her bag. I'm planning to send her in a couple days in May half term (so I can get some jobs done at home) and I'll definitely speak to them about her reactions and that we'll be testing over that week. I'll speak to them Wednesday when she's in and still testing step 3 too so they're aware. That's a good way of looking at it - if they're not otherwise unwell then no need to send home.

Soooo... told them yesterday she'd had a pancake as we're doing the dairy ladder again just incase she reacts or has loose 💩. Picked her up today and they said 'we've been doing little bits of milk cooked so she's had a splash of milk in an omelette and a small bit of butter on potatoes' 😳 I froze a bit and kinda reiterated she's only on step 3 and we wouldn't be doing step 4 cheese until May... we're going to ask they don't do any dairy at nursery until we've cleared step 4 and 5.

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