How often does your DC lose things?

welly01

DS has been at DC for 4 months.  We generally like our DC, but this week its come to our attention that they've lost 2 of our cloth diapers.  When he first started, I'd taken an extra bottle as backup (empty) and after a few weeks, I realized it was gone.  So during 4 months, they have lost one bottle and two diapers.  Who knows if they've lost clothes or bibs.

Is this normal?  We really appreciate them doing our cloth diapers, but those are expensive so its really unacceptable that they've lost them!!  I'm just not sure if this is normal for a DC environment.

Does your DC occasionally lose LO's items?  Is there anything I can do to prevent this?? 

jlaOK

Our daycare has lost various bottle and sippie cup parts.  It's gotten better as DS has gotten older and now just uses 1 cup per day.

I just label as much as possible.  I bought Name Bubbles to label his items and have been happy about how they've held up through the dish washer and washing machine.

cltk12

DS has been in DC for 9 months and nothing has been lost.

katieh1017

Lillian has been in DC for 10 months and the only thing that has gotten "lost" is art work was sent home with another parent. They knew where it was but the parent hasnt returned it either...

aeh72

To my knowledge, they have not lost anything (DS has been there 11 months).  I suppose a bib or some backup clothes could have gotten sent home with the wrong kid, but I haven't missed them if they did!

Nechie122

Two years, two daycares, nothing lost

LoCarb

More things were 'lost' in the infant years including blankets, clothing and diapers. Although, I suspect they were borrowed for another student and not returned. There have been times DD1 had to borrow from another LO, I always washed and returned it immediately. Ditto namebubbles.com. Although, it won't help if the parent doesn't return.

Diapers can easily (along with socks and other smaller articles of clothing) get lost in the washing machine.  I would let it go. It could happen to anybody.

SunAndRain

Six months of dc, nothing lost. I don't even bother to label extra outfits. Each child has a cubby to store their stuff. Rarely does something get misplaced and the teachers ask the parents if the article belongs to them.

rubber_chicken

No issues with bottles, sippy cups, or food.  We use namebubbles too, or a magic marker on her tin of oatmeal etc. 

Clothes seem trickier.  Especially socks, because it seems the kids are always pulling them off.  A couple times we've found someone else's socks in her bag.  And once, I think a package of wipes might have been mislabeled, because we brought in wipes, and then a week later they asked for more.  

Are there any other children in your daycare using cloth diapers?  Do you label them?  

2chatter

I would bet they accidentally tossed the CDs.  I have gotten about a dozen bottles that did not belong to DS and always sent them back (dirty, shame on me) but I think we probably lost 4-5 total.  Now that I have to send FOUR sippy cups per day I have lost three valves and two cups and it's a constant "tally in my head" as to if I have sent 12 cups and gotten 9 back, how many cups are at DC?  V. annoying.

pitterpatter129

theresat858:

LoCarb:

More things were 'lost' in the infant years including blankets, clothing and diapers. Although, I suspect they were borrowed for another student and not returned. There have been times DD1 had to borrow from another LO, I always washed and returned it immediately. Ditto namebubbles.com. Although, it won't help if the parent doesn't return.

Diapers can easily (along with socks and other smaller articles of clothing) get lost in the washing machine.  I would let it go. It could happen to anybody.

Um, what daycare do you know that washes cloth diapers?  I highly doubt most would know the right wash routine, so really they shouldn't ever go in the wash... and honestly daycare better not be washing my LO's clothes, either...we don't use scented detergents in our house; I dont' know what they would use.

Maybe she meant they accidently were put into the daycare's wash basket. I know every daycare I've ever worked at or sent my kid to (so about five) washes all the crib sheets, bouncy seat covers, washcloths, etc. each day.  And we washed kids' clothes at one daycare I worked at during college if they got soiled during the day.

OP:  Do any other parents cloth diaper?  If so, you might ask if your diapers are at their home.  My previous (we just moved) daycare lost my child's blanket!  It was properly labeled.  And once we got someone else's bottle nipple sent home, but that's about it.

 

 

 

jf198400

We've been at 2 daycares and have only ever lost lunch tupperwear or bibs. Usually they just get sent home with the wrong kid and eventually they reappear in our cubby. It's not a big deal. We never lost any bottles or had someone else's sent home. DS came home in another child's extra shirt a few times, but they shared a cubby (top half was for DS, bottom half was for other boy) so I can understand the mistake. I just washed it and returned it the next day. I am 99% sure that if your cloth diapers are missing, someone threw them out by mistake. It's unfortunate, but I would let it go. Don't take it as a reflection on the care your child is receiving, I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

Jenny952

I label everything.  Sometimes I don't get all of her sippies or bowls back, but eventually they find their way back to us.  And sometimes I have gotten another kid's cup or bottle.  I give them a little slack because my stuff is always labeled and it's probably hard to juggle all the cups and bottles and bowls, etc.  Be sure to label and check your child's bag before you leave for the day to make sure you have everything you sent for the day.  

ccam

Only 3 months in DC, but nothing has been lost.  He has been sent home with an incorrect bib once or twice, but no big deal - I just wash it and return it.

Leap08

My daughter has been in daycare for more than 3 years, and I can't recall losing a single item. Last week they misplaced a sweater and I thought it might be lost. But by Friday they had found it. We have had items accidently go home with other kids, but they've always been returned.

Mrs.RockyM

In the infant room it's usually socks (or she'll come home in someone else's socks), bibs, spoons, random little things like that.  Mostly everything we send to school is labeled (either a sharpee or inchbug bottle lables).   

I'd bring it up to the teachers, just ask if maybe it was thrown in somewhere else or in another child's bag and a parent hasn't realized yet it wasn't theirs (or wanted to keep it)