Daycare injuries frequency?

[Anonymous]

My baby has been at an in-home since she was 5 months old. She never had scratches, bumps or bruises before she could walk, not even in the crawling/cruising stage. Now at 2 she gets the occasional scrape and bruise. A couple of times she fell down hard while playing outside, but nothing serious. They always give us an incident report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's not typical in my experience. A toddler, yes, they fall a lot. But a crawling baby having injuries is more of a yellow flag here. I don't think it's enough to throw out the place if there's other things you like, but keep your eyes open.

+1 Toddler, yes, but in the infant room DD only ever got an incident report for scratching her own eye. I'd be alarmed they don't know what's happening.

[Anonymous]

One question in regards to the scratch- do you trim you baby's nails? They can get long and sharp and if there's a possibility that the baby scratched themselves it could explain why the caregiver didn't know how it happened.

Since there seems to be a pattern here, I think you are right to be concerned. But I also understand the feeling of not being sure what to do- my kids are at a center and I get calls for every minor scratch/fall for my rough-and-tumble preschooler (usually on the playground). Yet this same center failed to call me for something much more serious for my 2yo and I ended up in the urgent care with them on a Friday night recently. After talking with them I'm willing to give them a benefit of the doubt this time (2yo is not very verbal when wearing a mask) but I wouldn't be so understanding next time.