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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m currently on maternity leave with my 2 month old, due back soon. I don’t have a spot at a daycare yet and I’m really worried about sending him to a daycare where caregivers mask. Don’t get me wrong, I am pro-vaccine, pro mask, pro any and all public health measures. My 3 yr old is in preschool with masked teachers and masked students. But I am freaked out by the idea of a young baby (who lacks object permanence) spending so many hours a day with masked caregivers.

I’m sort of surprised I haven’t seen threads on this. Has anyone else had this concern and gotten over it? Did everyone just hire nannies? [/quote]

Anecdotally, my pro mask pediatrician recently mentioned her DD is masked in childcare, and thinks that is partially responsible for her speech delay.[/quote]

Speech delays are pretty common pre-pandemic. The only way to establish causality is to do a randomized study. It would also be useful to see if the incidence of speech delays has gone up during the pandemic, but this is difficult to measure because people aren't taking their kids to the doctor as much. We don't have this information right now as far as I am aware. Even a pediatrician's opinion on this matter essentially amounts to an educated guess. We really just don't know. I wish this was something there was more information on - it seems like there was SO much investment in making sure the vaccines were safe, but zero effort to ascertain whether masking impacts children's development. WTF.[/quote]

The data could only be compiled after the fact (kids who had masked daycare and kids who didn’t).  Like so many issues regarding children, it would be unethical to do a proper study.  “Okay, Mom, we’re going to put one of your identical twins into a masked daycare and the other in an unmasked daycare tosee if the first has language and bonding issues later”.  [/quote]

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