Daycare

[Anonymous]

I was just wondering what everyone here does about day care and dealing with all the issues that relate to reflux. I’m still home, but will be returning to work in a couple of months, and am a bit worried that my daughter won’t get the right attention that she’s going to need there, along with that bottles won’t be prepared right etc. Do you give specific instructions, has day care been an issue, any suggestions? My daughter will be with my mother in law, which is good in 1 sense, but she also watches my niece, so I know she won’t get all the attention to detail that she gets now…

[Anonymous]

Have you thought about going over things now? Maybe just to get her used to what goes on you can have her keep her while you are home. If you did a trial period now maybe you won’t be so nervous when you have to go back to work. I think you are lucky that you have a family member that is able to watch her. There are several mom’s on here who have to use public daycare and they have had good and bad experiences.

[Anonymous]

I completely understand your fears about daycare!!!!!!! I even posted something almost exactly like this before Sarah started! You are very lucky that your MIL will be watching her. Even though she has your niece as well, that is still more attention than most daycares can provide.

Do you get along with your MIL? I know that can make it a little more difficult to express exactly how you want things done. I would just make a list of the things that are most important to you…or things you are worried about the most and then show her NOW and almost laugh about it like “I’m already nervous, look at this list I made!” Then maybe you could go over it with her and she’ll have an idea of how serious you are about those certain things being done??? Just a thought. Even if you don’t show her the list…at least you can put into perspective how you expect her to be taken care of.

I have a quick MIL story…when Sarah was younger (0-4months) she HAD to be swaddled very tightly to sleep. She couldn’t sleep any other way. Or if she did fall asleep, the slightest thing would startle her and she’d wake up screaming (this was before reflux was under control). Anyway, MIL babysat her and I told her EXPLICITLY to make sure she’s swaddled tightly blah blah blah. MIL said that we were torturing her by putting her in a “straight jacket” and she refused to swaddle her!!! Well, after 5 hours of an overtired screaming baby, I think she learned to bite her tongue and do what MOM says is right!

I hope it’s a smooth transition for you to daycare. I learned that the anticipation leading UP to starting daycare was MUCH worse than the actual daycare experience. It is hard to make the adjustment in the beginning, but it does get easier! It’s just a new routine to adjust to.

Amy

[Anonymous]

I know that this isn’t always the case, but Kaelyn actually did better in daycare. She was a very social little baby, and she has always loved to “people watch”, so daycare provided lots of distractions for her. She actually fussed less there than she did at home.

Alexandra is already a pretty easy-going baby, but we do have problems with her refusing to eat. She also does pretty well with day care. Every now and then she has days when she refuses most of her bottles, but she does that at home as well, so I don’t think that day care is the issue.

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