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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big centers will be always cold and business like. If you want more personal attention, you need to switch to nanny, share or in-home. I believe, centers are better for older kids, but infants need personal attention, they develop better when somebody is talking, singing, smiles to them.[/quote]

You need to evaluate the center.  Not all centers are alike, not even all large centers.  We are at a Bright Horizons facility at a federal agency (the one my wife works at).  There are three infant rooms with a 1:3 ratio that is strictly maintained.  After 2, they can have a 1:8 ratio.  There are two 2 year rooms, and one 3 year room and at least one other older room (not sure of the ages in that last room as I don't go by there much).

Our twins started at 3.5 months and they opened a new room for them (the other two rooms were full with 6 infants and 2 teachers each).  We have watched over the last 10 months as things have grown.  4 other children were slowly added to our room.  One c hild left because the family joined an au pair program.  We had 5 children and 2 teachers for about 4 months and then another child was added.  We're back to six.  It has been a positive experience for us.  We know the two teachers in our room very well and they know our children very well.  They greet them every morning when we arrive "Hi A!   He B!"  Most mornings, at least one of the teachers will stop what she's doing to come over and give both of them a hug and a kiss.  After all this time, we know the other children pretty well and we know their parents pretty well.  We occasionally see them at drop-off or pick-up.  All six children get very personalized care.  There were only two bouncy seats and two playmats and two boppy pillows initially and it was a little hard when there were six pre-mobile children.  But we all worked it out.  Yes, there were times that we came in and dropped our children into a bouncy seat, playmat or boppy pillow, but we usually stayed a few minutes and our children are almost always attended to before we leave.  Before they were crawling, it was every time.  The center has a policy that at drop-off someone checks their diapers, so they get attention when dropped off.

But then, we interviews six facilities before we had the twins and this was the one that we chose because we liked the procedures and standards best.  It's an excellent facility and we felt much more comfortable there than other facilities that we looked at.[/quote]

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