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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are nearly grown, but I simply could not hand my newborn over to strangers at a daycare,[b] who were managing my baby in addition to five or six others lined in their infant car carriers in the baby room waiting for individual attention[/b]. Just couldn't do it. That is the decision that worked best for me at the time.

Follow your gut. Looking back, I feel I did the right thing for me and my child(ren).  Zero regrets. Work will always be there to go back to, but you only get one chance to raise your children. My kids are well-adjusted, calm, thoughtful young people who do me proud.[/quote]

You actually literally couldn't do that now, since that's not legal in daycares, and not what happens. [/quote]

PP. could you expand on that?  That is not our experience in daycare. [/quote]

At our licensed DC center, they were not *allowed* to leave the babies in their cribs unless they were napping, they had one swing (which was only out during the pickup window, and, as far as I can tell, was there to minimize the number of babies on the floor when the most adults were coming in and out), and they *never* left the babies in their car seats.  I think there were rules about that, too.  On the other hand, they had two rocking chairs, and regularly rocked the babies to sleep.  (I used to come in at lunch to nurse every day, so I saw a fair amount of what went on.)  Babies were not lined up in their carriers -- you handed your baby off directly to one of the staff.  The staff were constantly hands-on with the babies: feeding them, changing them, rocking them, singing songs to them, playing with them on the mats, etc.

And they are only strangers until they aren't: the staff were always warm and affectionate towards the babies, and the kids who had aged out of the infant room still loved them and were always happy to see them (and vice-versa).     [/quote]

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