My six month old daughter has been watched by a close friend who is terrific with her in my friend’s home since six weeks. (My friend used to do in-home day care, and is a true "baby person"). She can't watch the baby Thursdays so we enrolled our baby in day care for the last two months on Thursdays, and due to scheduling, some Fridays. For months two and three, we had someone else watch her on Thursdays while I was working at home. The other person wasn’t a “baby-person” and to be honest, the first few weeks the baby was fussy for her, but it subsided after a few Thursdays. Overall, I am amazed at what a happy, easy baby our daughter is. She goes to strangers easily unless it’s after 8pm and she’s tired, and even then is sometimes OK. We’ve had her spend considerable time with 2 additional babysitters with no problem.
We aren’t overly impressed with the day care experience in her room for a few reasons – one of which is that they don’t seem to attempt to give attention to more than one baby at once and the rest of the time the babies spend an undue amount of time laying on boppies staring at the ceiling. They seem pretty tolerant of babies crying and make excuses, but as soon as they pick those kids up they quit crying, which makes me think it isn’t that the kids don’t like diaper changes, have reflux, etc, they just want a little acknowledgement.
Our daughter doesn’t seem to be adjusting well at the day care (both our opinion and the day care’s) – she seems to be crying a lot, cranky with them, and generally cranky at home after day care. We had requested Thursdays and Fridays from the day care due. They said that the reason she is not getting along well at day care is because she’s only there once a week and if she were there twice a week she would do better, and that it shouldn’t be two consecutive days, that it should be something like a mon/thur or tues/thur.
I’m hesitant to take her from a loving wonderful environment on a day that’s available to put her in day care another day a week. It seems counter-intuitive that I should put her there MORE time. Does anyone have any experience that would say this “two days a week would be better” theory is legitimate?
Or, do you think it’s time to find a different day care or a second caregiver?
We aren’t overly impressed with the day care experience in her room for a few reasons – one of which is that they don’t seem to attempt to give attention to more than one baby at once and the rest of the time the babies spend an undue amount of time laying on boppies staring at the ceiling. They seem pretty tolerant of babies crying and make excuses, but as soon as they pick those kids up they quit crying, which makes me think it isn’t that the kids don’t like diaper changes, have reflux, etc, they just want a little acknowledgement.
Our daughter doesn’t seem to be adjusting well at the day care (both our opinion and the day care’s) – she seems to be crying a lot, cranky with them, and generally cranky at home after day care. We had requested Thursdays and Fridays from the day care due. They said that the reason she is not getting along well at day care is because she’s only there once a week and if she were there twice a week she would do better, and that it shouldn’t be two consecutive days, that it should be something like a mon/thur or tues/thur.
I’m hesitant to take her from a loving wonderful environment on a day that’s available to put her in day care another day a week. It seems counter-intuitive that I should put her there MORE time. Does anyone have any experience that would say this “two days a week would be better” theory is legitimate?
Or, do you think it’s time to find a different day care or a second caregiver?
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