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[quote=Anonymous][i]What age did you put your child in daycare?[/i] Part-time around 4 months, full-time at 6 months.
[i]What time of year was it? (Spring, Fall, Summer, Winter)[/i] September
[i]How big was the class size?[/i] The max class size was 12 babies for 5 full-time teachers and 2 floaters, but since her daycare is part of a school and adhere's to a school schedule when she started in September there were only about 8 kids. It wasn't until November did they get to all 12.
[i]How often did your children get sick in the infant class during that first year?[/i] Yikes, so from November through April she had 9 ear infections. She was a little early (born 37+6), and once we had tubes put in she's been great!
[i]Do you feel that your child got enough 1-on-1 attention in the class group setting?[/i] Yes. The teachers were fantastic and would trade off one on one with small groups. Plus seeing all the kids were on their own nap schedules early on freed up the teachers.
[i]How difficult was the separation for you as mom, how did you cope?[/i] Yes! I was able to take off 6 months, but seeing as daycare started at 4 months we put DD in for a few hours during the day. She wasn't sleeping through the night at that point either, so it was a nice little break for me. Week one I took her once, the following week twice, and just kept adding a day from there. Daddy did drop off the first 3 weeks and I picked up. Once it got a bit easier I started dropping off. By the time I went back to work she was STTN and we were in a good routine.

I won't lie, I still miss DD like crazy most days (she's almost 28 months), but I'm still the one to pick her up which is amazing at this age. We absolutely love our place and couldn't be happier with the teachers, staff, policies, location, buildings, environment, and more! If you don't absolutely love your daycare you'll have more issues with leaving her there. [/quote]

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