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April 2012 Moms
SteelCity44
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Micah Leonard
Daycare is dumb
SteelCity44
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Since the Wednesday pity party thread disappeared, I'm going to complain about my stupid daycare again. (Thank God) I only have to pick up my son twice a week from daycare. DH gets him the other 2 days that he attends. I dread picking up my son, because I don't want to look at or talk to the lady who is there in the afternoons.
She's constantly questioning how I'm feeding LO. She made me doubt how much should be in a bottle, and I stressed about it for no reason at all. On a Friday, she told me he needed 6oz bottles instead of 4. DH tried some 5oz bottles on Monday, and LO spit up shortly after finishing the bottle. So we sent 4oz bottles to daycare on Tuesday. He didn't even drink all 3 bottles! She sent one home with him!!!!!
I understand that every day is different, and some days he's hungry, but I get home shortly after his last bottle. He's never screaming for food when we get him. She told me to send a snack, so we send a BLW snack that they said they would offer. Last week, she told me the snack wasn't enough, and she wanted to give him cereal. I said no and told her if she really wanted to give him a puree, go for it. She said no, she thinks he should get cereal. No.
Today, I go get him and notice one of his feeding boxes is completely filled with a yellow highlighter. What did he do now? It says "Snack from home - REFUSED." Ugh. I think she wanted some reaction from me when she told me the bad news. I laughed and asked LO if he was sick of the chicken nuggets we were sending in. I would love to know how he "refused" his food that was supposed to follow his bottle, despite being offered an hour after his bottle.... you know when he starts getting fussy. Idiot.
I hope you all have amazing daycare providers. But if you have a b!tch that you'd like to share, feel free to do so now. I would love to commiserate with someone else!
Micah Leonard
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Re: Daycare is dumb
Maybe it's something about the 6 month mark, because my DC person (only one of 4) is hounding me about feeding him solids. He really isn't that interested, and we are only doing them at home so far- he has too many sensitivities, I want to keep an eye on him for allergic reactions.
Plus, (and don't get me wrong, I like them a lot), it would be nice to freaking understand them! They are all excellent, but English is SO not their first language!
Frustrating!!!
Oh, I couldn't imagine that! I get that they know what they're doing, but so do we! A comment once is fine. But if baby is thriving, then back off! Do they know your son was a preemie and may be on a different "schedule" than full term babies? (Sorry if I'm wrong.)
Micah Leonard
That would annoy me as well. They told us that diarrhea would send him home, but at the same time, they'll understand if it appears to be teething related. Well, he had some diarrhea from his antibiotic, and fortunately, they let him stay. At this age, that's such a hard definition of what's normal poop and not, and what's "spit up" vs "throw up." I would love to spend an extra day with him at home, but my sick days are precious right now!
Micah Leonard
I asked mine today about food, she said sure to send in stuff and they will feed her. Cereal, pur?e. I said finger food? She said noooo not at this age. To make sure the pur?e was very liquid not too thick. Oh well. I kind of would feel weird about sending finger food in case they didn't watch her closely enough and she choked.
she said when they can pick up the puffs with the pincer grip then they feel they are ready for it.
Overall they seem really nice so far (3 days in)
Their willingness to even try BLW improved my overall opinion of them. I know that most daycares would refuse. I can't tell if it's just the afternoon girl that doesn't buy in to it or what the story is. She never tells DH about her food concerns and none of the morning girls have a problem with what we bring in (DH drops him off). So I don't know if she's trying to make a point that BLW isn't working out. And when we first started BLW, I was not at all comfortable letting someone else watch him - not even grandparents (and my mom's a nurse!). But now that I've seen him handle food and how to get it around his mouth, I feel more comfortable that daycare could monitor him eating without an issue, and they all have been trained in handling infant choking if the worst happens.
I'm glad that you're happy with your DC though. That's such a stress!
Micah Leonard
I'm not one to complain because I love our DC. It's really great and the teachers are all fab. Like, I love it so much that even though I can't stand my boss or my job a lot of days, I'd stay because the DC is connected to my job. And it's a school, so they actually have a curriculum! Totally funny.
My teachers are great about feeding. Whatever we want them to feed DD, they do.
We had DD in an in-home daycare where English wasn't the providers' first language. It was a nightmare to communicate. Never again.
mm 2/17/11 * dd born 4/20/12 * bo 1/3/14 * edd 1/21/ 1/15
That is really stupid that your daycare provider would argue with you about what to feed LO!! It makes me so mad, if someone aruged with me about feeding my DD I would be PISSED!
Daycare for me is just in general a frustrating situation, I feel like my daycare provider is doing the best she can but.....that is somewhat a put down because she doesn't always do great. We have had issues that we have literally faught over before but I think things are improving from what I can see. I wish I could be home with DD but since she has to go to daycare I am just going to keep working with our provider until she fixes all of my issues....