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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Yes you are right...most likely working would be the farthest thing from my mind and my friends as well and we are/were prepared financially, but not everyone is so lucky.
PumpkinAngel
Aren't you the one that said your ds has had 6 caregivers in 3.5 years? Is this what you mean by "long term vested interest"? Does you ds even remember all of his caregivers? Doesn't "long term vested interest" require an ongoing, continuous relationship? BTW, I may be thinking of someone else, if so please disregard the particulars LOL.
He was exclusively bf for nine weeks (still longer than either of his sisters combined) and on breastmilk exclusively for six months.
I'll also note that his oldest sister was breastfed exclusively for six weeks and his middle sister for 2 weeks.
Also, your "sneaking suspicion" is probably right in that there is only a small minority of women who in fact "exclusively bf" their children (again meaning no formula AND no bottles). But surely you can acknowlegde that SAH would in fact make it easier to exclusively bf than would WOH?
Why would you ASSume that if the day to day caregiving is no longer happening, that the relationship no longer exists?
We are going to the memorial service for the husband of my boys' first caregiver tomorrow.
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"A separate study published in the journal "Pediatric Dentistry" in the spring of 1999 concluded that human breast milk is not cariogenic, meaning it does not cause dental caries."
You are mistaken.
So again, no break for Mom.
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