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[quote=Anonymous]My DC #1 was at an in-home daycare of a woman who ran the daycare for 20 yrs.  DC started there at 8mo, too.  DC didn't really have separation issues off the bat, but that phase did come around.  Most kids cry for about 5 or 10 minutes and then stop, including my own DC.  This is what most daycare providers have told me (I looked into several).

There are those kids, however, that don't stop crying, and pretty much cry all day. There was a boy like this at my DC's daycare.  And the woman there also told the parent that the child was not a good fit for the daycare after the one week trial period.  I assume, as someone who's been working in daycare for 20+ yrs, this woman knows whether a child will settle down or not after a week, and since this child didn't, it wasn't going to work.  Apparently, the child was at home with a nanny all day prior to coming to the daycare. I don't remember how the child was.  So the nanny idea may backfire on you if you want to eventually put your child in daycare when your child is a toddler. Maybe your child will grow out of the phase.  That's an unknown, unfortunately.

If there are multiple children that the daycare must look after, it really is not possible to spend the entire day holding one baby. That would not be fair to the other children.  So, you would either have the situation where, as other PPs have described, the child is left to cry all day, or the Provider will let you know it's not working.

Your situation sucks. I'm sorry.  Maybe your DC needs to also spend more time around other kids, if not already, to get them more social?  Some kids love being around other kids.[/quote]

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