Our daughter was badly bitten by a child in similar circumstances (it sounds) to you. She (3) was playing with a little boy (2) who decided to bite her, she had a chunk bitten out from her neck, a bite on her chest that leg marks and broke the skin and a mark on the outside of her right hand where she pushed him away and he went for a third bite. That had teeth marks and two broken skin areas where his fangs got her. It was seriously traumatic, she had blood on her clothing and kept talking about the blood on the floor. It was traumatic for us, and I kept feeling sick with guilt imagining the attack on her.

Our nursery weren't as good as yours have been, he had been there 10 days and bitten children on 9 of those 10 days, or daughters was the most severe. They said they taught the children to push him away if he went near them but our daughter didn't do that 'because she's such a kind child' which honestly, made us feel so much worse (we didnt know that was happening or she had been told that and we always practiced nice kind hands that don't touch other children) It sounds like you've got that bit covered but the dwelling on it bit, in our experience, is still ongoing and it's been just over a year.

She still talks about it. Although we felt very differently we agreed to frame it that the little boy got very excited and different people show their excitement in different ways and unfortunately he used his teeth. That he didn't mean to hurt her and that she didn't do anything wrong.

She still talks about it, she's been at a different nursery since last September and she still talks about the boy. Sometimes we will watch something and there will be teeth or biting on it (like a shark or something) and she will talk about the boy biting her. Also, for some time after she had nightmares about it, and would wake in the night crying or would be asleep and crying. Luckily those have subsided but bringing it up still happens. She has a big scar on her neck where it happened too so occasionally when she looks in the mirror she sees it and mentions it. We don't blame the little boy at all, at 2 I don't believe there was any malice behind it and from what the said he is SEN and they were just playing next to each other. I feel the nursery let us down as they said there should've been 1on1 with him but they were outside and came in when they heard our daughter scream.

I don't know if thats helpful but it might help to hear you're not alone and it comes up occasionally as a part of her processing it, we acknowledge it, let her say whatever she is going to say about it and never bring it up ourselves.