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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, thanks in advance for reading and providing input.

We've sent our now 9 month daughter to an in-home daycare in Bethesda since she was about 5 months old. She started part time at first and has been full time since September. It was all smooth in the beginning but then my daughter started to reject the bottle and become a little hard to feed. After she started on solids, she would eat them without minimal trouble so we started to send more solids but overall, per the daycare folks, she has been "EXTREMELY DIFFICULT". The person who runs this daycare calls me every day to tell me how hard/challenging my child is to feed, and that she only drank xyz oz. Notably, this has yo-yoed a lot in that there are days when my daughter would drink all her milk and eat all her solids. We really started to address the bottle rejection at home by doing bottle bootcamps, pumping exclusively, ensuring we did solids at home and we really felt things get better. At daycare though, it seemed never to change and I still continued to get calls that she was a difficult child and fussed a lot. Even as I sympathized with the daycare people, their experiences ran exactly counter to ours as we never really found her overly fussy or difficult..and we are first time parents. I consistently showed appreciation for the daycare folks, telling them I was grateful for their care and concern for my baby but eventually I've come to be bothered by the constant complaining about how my child is the most difficult baby they have ever seen. I think any infant would need attention, and sure, mine def has stranger and separation anxiety but it seems to be expected with a baby her age.

My question is - did you ever have kids who had issues with the bottle that eventually adjusted to daycare? I'm not sure if I need to hire a nanny or find a different daycare (I do have two nice options). Do you think I'm being unreasonable in not feeling comfortable with the feedback sent from daycare? We're with family away this week and they've constantly remarked how NOT difficult the baby is but I'm not sure my perspective is truly objective. Thank you so much for your thoughts! [/quote]

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