When do you NOT send LO to DC?

wychets · November 2013

Evening ladies!

What are some things you will keep LO home for? Being a FTM I was really paranoid when DD was a baby. She could cough and I would be calling off sick. Crazy I know haha!

Nechie122 · November 2013

I follow the daycare guidelines. If they'll take her, she goes.

wychets · November 2013

Same here. I will not send her if she has a fever over 100 and of course loose stool.

C12H22O11 · November 2013

DS stays home for fevers over about 100F or diarrhea/puking.

Or anything obviously contagious or formally diagnosed by pedi.

wychets · November 2013

C12H22O11 said:

DS stays home for fevers over about 100F or diarrhea/puking. Or anything obviously contagious or formally diagnosed by pedi.

Same here.

DTNZ4Ever · November 2013

C12H22O11 said:
DS stays home for fevers over about 100F or diarrhea/puking.

Or anything obviously contagious or formally diagnosed by pedi.

This.

Pips09 · November 2013

Fever, vomiting, diarrhea. Something obviously contagious, like pink eye. Just a cough or cold, she goes in.

ccam · November 2013

C12H22O11 said:
DS stays home for fevers over about 100F or diarrhea/puking.

Or anything obviously contagious or formally diagnosed by pedi.

Same here.

emberlee3 · November 2013

Nechie122 said:

I follow the daycare guidelines. If they'll take her, she goes.

This.

ASmallWonder · November 2013

I agree that if they'll take him, he goes

I also feel ok (at this point) using judgement that flies slightly in the face in the rules. For example - they're supposed to be fever free/vomit free for 24 hours. Well, if he wakes up with a fever or pukes at 9 or 10 am and recovers only to have it not reappear at all by the time we'd leave for daycare around 7 the next day, he might go then too.

jennyelf · November 2013

elmoali said:

I agree that if they'll take him, he goes I also feel ok (at this point) using judgement that flies slightly in the face in the rules. For example - they're supposed to be fever free/vomit free for 24 hours. Well, if he wakes up with a fever or pukes at 9 or 10 am and recovers only to have it not reappear at all by the time we'd leave for daycare around 7 the next day, he might go then too.

Same here.

mb314 · November 2013

Like pp, I keep DS home for fevers or anything contagious. I've kept him home for ear infections because he was so miserable and cranky, the daycare staff wouldn't have been able to care for him and the other children. He hasn't had vomiting or diarrhea yet, but I would keep him home for those.

If I kept DS home for a cough or runny nose, I would never work!

DS got Hand, Foot and Mouth, and as a first time mom, I didn't know what it was. I thought we maybe had fleas in our carpet or it was an allergic reaction. I sent him to daycare not realizing he was contagious, and by the time we figured out what it was, there was no more need to keep him home because he had already spread the germs.

jlaOK · November 2013

Mostly daycare guidelines. If they are miserable and we can stay home w/o messing up our day then we might keep them home.

SLGILL1978 · November 2013

If you have school aged kids most licensed daycare follow the same rules. I have kept my daughter home once due to a bad cough. I do monitor her coughs because when she was 2 months she started to wheeze, other than that I just follow the guidelines: vomit, diarrhea, fever free for 24 hrs without the aid of any meds and of course anything contagious like pink eye.

BeeGirl2 · November 2013

I keep them home for anything contagious but also look at them and think - would I be going to work like this? And if the answer is no, I stay home with them

groovygrl · November 2013

Same as the others and also the puke is a judgment call like pp said...if no one else in the house has been sick w/ a GI thing and LO has been able to eat normally, I might send back under 24 hrs if last puke was the morning before.
The only time I have kept home when they didn't meet the 'criteria' was after having pneumonia and just really wanting to make sure they were rested & could get better even though the fever, etc was gone.

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