Daycare - Again!
Like I posted below, yesterday my DD was left in the same diaper for 5 hours. This morning, when DH dropped her off he talked to both the director and the teacher and instructed them to change her every 2 hours. When I picked her up this evening, I discussed it again with the teacher and told her that even if the LO is sleeping to please change her approximately every 2 hours and never to extend 3 hours.
I come home and open the wetbag and guess what...she was at daycare for 9 hours and they used only 3 diapers again. I checked the log and they left her in the same diaper for 4 hours. According to the log, she slept that entire 4 hours.
I'm annoyed. I understand them not wanting to wake her up but can't they follow our instructions at least for one day!
I was so annoyed that I've scheduled a tour at a Goddard School about 15 miles from our house. It's about $4K a year more expensive which is manageable but isn't very conveniently located to where we live and work. According to the director at the Goddard School, they have the same 3 teachers all the time and each one has been there for at least a year. At our current daycare, there was a brand new teacher there when I picked her up yesterday. I introduced myself and asked her name and she said "oh I'm just a temp."
Re: Daycare - Again!
Loving my child care is such joy. I really recommend it.
As for the diaper changes. Does DD have any adverse affects? Any diaper rash or problems? I only ask b/c maybe letting her sleep and not changing doesn't prohibit good care. Seems weird they wouldn't follow instructions. Not great.
I don't think she was adversely affected by it. She has a diaper rash but it is clearing up. It might have cleared up faster though without being left in her diaper too long for two days in a row.
I'm more annoyed by the fact that they didn't do what we asked them to do on the same day that we made the request.
And another thing that irritated me today (I know I need to let it go - I'm on high mommy guilt fix time) is that when I came in to pickup the LO, she was lying on the floor in the play gym and there's a bib around her neck. Is that safe? It was velcroed shut, not snapped. I'm very paranoid about anything being left around her neck. I didn't say anything because I wasn't sure that it was really an issue or not.
Some advice? Relax. Really. I wouldn't change a sleeping baby either. And I don't get the request unless the child has a serious issue under that diaper.
And the bib was on Jo from 3 months - 12 months pretty much constantly because of drool. She is not being left unattended.
Really. I know this is hard on you. I've been there. And there have been a few things that I've had to let go. Because daycare is NOT you, and its not the way you'd do things and it never, ever ever will be. But sometimes really good care is good enough for a few hours while we work.
That's my only advice, relax. Is your child happy? Fed? well cared for? Relax.
If she was sleeping at home would you wake her up?? I understand being frustrated if it seemed like they weren't changing her on a regular basis, but if DS is sleeping, there is no way I would want his daycare to wake him up. We never would do that at home.
Was it soon after feeding that they had the bib on her? DS always had a bib on b/c he was a huge refluxer and they tried to keep his clothes clean.
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
I think this is kind of what's bugging me. It's unusual for her to sleep so long in the mid afternoon.
I think the root cause of my annoyance is that I think they have some staffing issues. I watch the infant room on the webcam at work and I see teachers coming and going (the picture's not good enough for me to always know where my DD is so I can't say for certain whether she slept all afternoon today). I think there's a full time teacher but she's only there 4 days a week. She's also not always there in the late afternoon. I wish there was more consistency. I think that if something is off here it's because of the constant changing of the staff.
yes, exactly (and ditto lanie's previous post, too). Daycare is very, very stimulating for young babies- the colors, the people, the sounds, etc. Young babies deal with that by sleeping. Emmy has never been a good sleeper. When she was about 2.5 months old we took her to a basketball game. The stinker slept the entire time- it was just such an overwhelming experience she coped by sleeping. Completely normal.
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