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kickenb
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So he came home with poop on him yesterday from daycare
kickenb
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All over his clothes, shirt and pants. His diaper was clean. My first initial reaction when I smelled it was that it wasn't his poop, it smelled like dog or cat. Daycare provider (in-home) has 4 cats. And they were playing outside and the condos she lives at has dogs. When my cats went nuts over the clothes lying in the laundry room sink I finally realized that it was a good chance it was either cat or dog poop. They never are bothered with his clothes in the sink when he has a blowout. The carseat reaked also, so had to wash that.
I'm in the process of finding a new daycare provider for various other reasons so don't know if I'm going to say anything yet. It was dried on so probably there for a while. I'm irritated that she couldn't smell it and didn't change his clothes at least. If she went anywhere near him, she would've smelled it or possibly even seen it since it was on the outside of his clothes.
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Re: So he came home with poop on him yesterday from daycare
My husband is in CO this week for work. I called him and was sobbing. My sister is watching him today since we only have daycare 3 days a week. We look at 2 other places next week when he comes back. I'm not even going to give her the 2 week required notice. She can keep her 2 weeks of pay, I just want to get him out as soon as possible.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this is disgusting. I told my sisters and they didn't really see the big deal. I guarantee if it was their kids, they would be livid also.
Ditto.
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
I haven't called her. He's not back there until tomorrow. I think I am going to mention something tomorrow about it. Maybe then when we tell her in a few weeks that we are pulling him there she won't be all that surprised knowing that I'm not happy with some of the care.
Good. I'm glad you're going to say something. I'd also keep a running record of things from this pt on.
me too
poor little man! that is just awful.
imo, if you are not able to pull him RIGHT.AWAY. i might not say anything to her yet. if she neglects the kids to the point of not noticing that they are playing in dog/cat sh!t or not noticing/smelling it on them then i would be fearful that she would neglect him even more when she knew i was pissed and pulling him out and he still had a couple of weeks there. gl, i hope you find a new daycare situation asap.
I'm so sorry! What an awful thing to have happen. totally makes you wonder what else they aren't taking good care of since this is such an obvious problem and something so easy to fix.
A good thing about this is that he is over a year old and at a good age where you can probably find a nice center for him to stay at for preschool to. GL!
Ditto pps -- report her. I'd be livid.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
I send DD to a center so I don't know if things are different but if something like this happened I would absolutely say something immediately. You don't have to tell her that you are planning to leave but I would tell her that you found feces all over your child and that is unacceptable. She needs to pay closer attention to these things as it is unsanitary/unhygienic. If you're sending him back then it could happen again. At least if you say something she will be aware of it and then if it does happen you have grounds for leaving, not giving notice and not losing out on any money.
Then I would look elsewhere, report her and move on.
I just keep thinking that if it had time to dry, your DC had time to put it in his mouth.
Setting aside the fact that it is just icky... it's dangerous. Animal feces can carry really horrible bacteria. I, personally, would feel uncomfortable leaving DC at a daycare with a shared yard because it's not very well controlled. You don't know what animal it came from and what sort of diseases that animal might have.
I agree with the previous posters. You should definetely report her. I feel so bad for your little guy though - that's disgusting and she was disrespectful to him. Hugs to you --- and good luck finding a good DC.