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Need some advice...kinda long
On Friday when I picked Mads up from daycare the late afternoon teacher said that the morning teacher wanted her to mention to me that Mads has been whining during diaper changes lately. Okay fine. I haven't noticed anything at all. So, I asked H. He hasn't noticed anything. My mom was up last weekend and so was my grandma, and I asked both of them and they said they hadn't noticed anything either.
So I dropped her off this morning and told the morning teacher that no one had noticed anything, etc. and tried to get more info. Is it during a poopy diaper, is it all the time, is she just wanting to play and you're interrupting her? Stuff like that. And she implied in not so many words that maybe someone was touching her inappropriately. But then she also said that she was really hard to control during diaper changes and that she was trying to get away. And we don't experience that at home either. So now I'm just worried. We have a pedi appointment on Wednesday for her 15 month checkup and I'm going to talk to the pedi about it and see what she thinks. She's never away from us except when she's at daycare, so I don't know when anyone would have had the chance to do something like the teacher was implying.
Isn't this just normal toddler behavior, though? Thoughts? What would you do? The teacher said she also mentioned it to the director and the director just shrugged it off as toddler behavior...
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Re: Need some advice...kinda long
Well, when you're at home or whatever, are you changing her diaper away from people/TV/distractions?
At daycare, do they just plop the kid on a changing table in the room w/the other kids and change their diapers?
She may be trying to squirm away because she thinks she's missing something. Especially if the other kids are still playing and she's been made to 'stop' to get her diaper changed.
That may be the difference. The daycare teacher is a moron for making that kind of leap, IMO.
When we're at home she always gets changed in her room. There's no distractions or TV in there. If she goes potty and she's downstairs playing, we take her upstairs and change her. I don't think I've ever changed her anywhere else.
And that's what I was thinking...that she was ticked because she thinks she's going to miss something. And yes, at daycare, it's the middle of the room w/ all the other kids around.
Well, that's ridiculous that the DCP would suggest something as ominous as any kind of abuse, when there's a million other reasons for her behavior. That's nothing to be taken lightly. FFS, if she's a freaking toddler teacher, she should know that kids your DD's age can't verbalize, "Why are you making me stop playing? I want to plllaaayyy! I don't want my diaper changed!"...SO it comes out as whining, squirming, and trying to get away.
JMO, but I would be tempted to say to the teacher something like this the next time I saw her; "You know, at home, we change her diaper in her room where there's no distractions. I'd bet that because she sees the other kids playing, she doesn't want to stop playing to have her diaper changed. I'm upset that it was insinuated that anything inappropriate has happened to my daughter."