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[quote=Anonymous]My 4 month old baby is starting day care tomorrow for the first time.  I'm scared ****less about it.  I haven't found a day care provider who I love or even really like after 8 months of searching, but I used up all of my leave and my husband used up all but a week of his leave and so tomorrow is D-day.  We're starting with an in-home provider who seems ok (like I didn't weep with despair when I left her house the first time we visited), but she has 8 kids right now and ideally we were looking for a provider who had fewer than 5, since our son was a preemie and his doctors said the fewer kids he's exposed to this year, the better.  Anyway, we're stuck with her for now, and tomorrow is the first day.

Any tips for planning for those of you who have BTDT?  Is there anything I should be looking for when I pick him up to have a sense of how his day went?

For planning, I am packing a backpack with:
* A container of wipes
* A package of diapers
* Spare feety pajamas and a spare onesie
* Two pacifiers
* A blanket that I'm sleeping with tonight

Do people bring breast milk bottles in a cooler or what?  Do you leave the carseat at the day care?

For when I pick him up, I figure I'll look out for how tired he looks, if he looks clean and rested (I don't expect he'll nap well at first since he's not used to noise, but who knows), if it looks like the diaper has been changed thoroughly...what else to look for?  I'm so undone by leaving him with someone else. I hate it so much.

Any wisdom or tips are welcome!
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