We looked around before Elias was born, and I thought we picked a pretty good daycare. It certainly has the price tag of a good daycare…I’m thinking it may even BE a pretty good daycare, which at times seems a little scary.
We feed Elias about 3-4 tablespoons of food every three hours at home, plus give him 6oz of milk at each feeding. He also loves to sleep, so he takes a nap (sometimes short) every 2-3 hours. On the weekends he is such a happy baby.
I don’t know how many times we have tried to communicate the schedule to the daycare. They still insist on only feeding Elias 6 oz. of milk at around 10:00, 3-4 tablespoons of food at 1:00, and then I pick him up around 4:00 (sometimes he gets an afternoon bottle, but not always). He also usually only gets one nap (about 1 hour) in the morning. Boy is he crabby. I usually have to hurry home, feed him and put him to bed. I know they have a lot of kids, but at least the napping thing seems like it would make their jobs easier.
I’ve decided at the next conference to break it down for them. Morning: bottle + snack, nap before 11:00. Afternoon: food + bottle, nap before 2:00. Is it really too much to ask?