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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
covered with a blanket at daycare?
ok, so we swaddle in a sleepsack at home, and i didn't send a blanket to daycare. But i notice all the babies cribs have blankets hanging over the side. I still didn't send one (i did send a swaddle me...)
anyway, today i noticed a blanket in L/Os crib. I said, "hey, that is not our blanket" and they said, oh it was an extra we have, since he didn't have one. now, I have plenty at home i can send so he doesn't have to use the "spare" but i am leery... we don't use blankets at home. Then again, is it worth making a big stink over if the cribs are all there in their line of sight?
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Re: covered with a blanket at daycare?
I wouldn't make a big stink over it. If you don't want your LO to have a blanket, just calmly let them know that you do not want him to have one. I leave at blanket at my son's daycare so that I can use it as a nursing cover at lunch. I just told the DCP that I prefer they don't use it to cover him and they haven't.
Do you use the sleepsack swaddle for naps? Why not send one with him? Otherwise I'd just tell them not to put a blanket in with him. I'd be bothered by that.
I'm surprised the day care uses blankets in the cribs at all.
It seems fine in my opinion since they are in the room with him. I would definitly just send my own blanket with him.
It does seem odd that the daycare never mentioned it to you though.
i'm thinking i should bring a sleepsack swaddle and place it in the crib. I worry though that he'll fall asleep and they won't want to be bothered with arm holes etc....
he's not much of a napper on schedule yet. he could stay awake all day if with me!
I would bring a sleepsack from home in and ask that they use it for naps.
Our daycare is not allowed to have blankets in the cribs for babies under 18 months of age. It is actually a licensing issue here.
It's the same way at our daycare. They can't have bumper pads in their cribs either. I didn't actually know about the blanket thing though, until I went to pick her up early one day and she was in her crib sleeping with no blanket. I thought DH had forgotten to bring it when he dropped her off. That is when they told me about the guidelines, So I wonder if it's not the same everywhere? You would think it would be though.