How young is too young?daycare?
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How young is too young?daycare?
| Tue, 12-02-2003 - 1:00am |
If you have a career and you had a baby what age would you think is apropriate to send your child to daycare/dayhome after they were born?
I have a friend that is a dayhome provider, she has 10mnth old twins and she was provinding care for a 2yr old. Mom of the 2yr old just had a baby and she was back to work when baby was 4days old, in my friends care. It is only half days now, but she is soon going to be full time, the baby is almost 5wks. Thoughts?

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I'll keep believing my professional dentist DH who has been treating children for 20 years rather than a stranger on an internet board who reads articles that support her agenda.
Susan
Me too LOL!!! My child "socializes" with a large group of diverse people including family and non-family members, however I DID limit "caregiving" to *just* family members. But then again, I don't see "socializing" and "caregiving" as the same thing. For example, I don't send my child to school for "caregiving", I send her to school for "socializing". See the difference?
Really? You can't manage to provide your child with adequate social experiences and make sure that she has other children around her without sending her to school? Strange, I know plenty of people manage that and more while homeschooling their children. Any particular reason why this has proved to be too much for you to manage?
Laura
Laura
Secondly, the university was an hour's commute and there more than likely was better quality care there. I was not going to drive an hour to place my infant in a dayhome or dc, drive an hour back to work and another 2 hours driving at the end of the day. Not to mention the fact that I'd not be able to continue to nurse him throughout the day. We lived in a suburb of the city. We have since moved - to another suburb, again there is one dc in this community - and it too is substandard.
Fairly cut and dried, my ass.
<<it simply IS better whether I point it out or not>>
Nope. Not for every mother and every child. Just one example -- ds had a severe intolerance to dairyproteins. My body does not break down milk proteins. Therefore, any dairy protein in my breast milk caused him severe pain and discomfort. He was much healthier and happier on formula.
<<the reason I'm so keen on pointing out the benefits of SAH and exclusive bfing, is that the two go hand in hand>>
Yeah. Tell that to the thousands of SAHMs who formula feed or to the thousands of WOHMs who exclusively breastfeed.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
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