Livid doesn't begin to cover it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mom should have sent more milk. They did the best they could. Mom is at fault.

They did NOT do the best they could. I agree that Mom should have sent more milk but that doesn't absolve the daycare of any fault. People can miscalculate, the baby may have been going through a growth spurt and the mom didn't realize there wouldn't be enough etc. There are any number of reasons why there may not have been enough milk. That doesn't make it ok to let a baby cry for hours in hunger without bothering to contact anyone on the emergency list. It doesn't matter that the baby will be fine and obviously won't remember this incident. It doesn't make it ok.[/quoteelse.

The mother should know if baby is going through growth spurt. It is the fault of the mother and no one r

Do you have children? Clearly you don't know much about babies or growth spurts. Here's an example of how a typical few days might go. Baby wakes up, mom breastfeeds (she has no idea how much baby eats while breastfeeding since there's no marker for ounces on mom's breast), mom takes baby to daycare where baby takes a 4 ounce bottle every 4 hours. Baby comes home and mom continues to BF. Next day baby wakes up, mom BFs then takes baby to daycare. Suddenly baby wants to eat every 2 hours instead. Daycare calls mom and says "I think baby is going through a growth spurt and we are going to run out of milk. We can try giving baby formula or if you can you could drop off more milk." Mom makes decision.

I'm not sure how in the typical scenario mom is supposed to know without a heads up from the daycare that baby was going through a growth spurt. I have 3 children and in my experience growth spurts are completely unpredictable and I only know if I'm home with the baby all day.

Get off your miserable high horse and stop trying to blame parents for everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here, I'm mad the most that they didn't call me to bring more milk. In 7 hours the daycare fed baby 4 bottles. That's a lot of milk, no matter how you slice it.
Anyway, it just crumbled my heart to pieces to hear him cry like that.

OP, you are totally right. 4 bottles in 7 hours is a TON of bottles. Either the baby was going through a grout spurt or they were just feeding him when he didn't need to eat and wasted a ton of BM. Either way they should have called. A good friend of mine had supply issues and sometimes wasn't sure if she had left enough milk for baby when she dropped him off in the morning. The daycare would let her know if they were running low though so that she could pump at work and drop extra off at lunchtime if necessary.

[Anonymous]

Baby was fed at 2:30....should have gotten another bottle around 5:30....you got there at 6:00....that is not letting the baby starve. Over dramatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby was fed at 2:30....should have gotten another bottle around 5:30....you got there at 6:00....that is not letting the baby starve. Over dramatic.

Shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby was fed at 2:30....should have gotten another bottle around 5:30....you got there at 6:00....that is not letting the baby starve. Over dramatic.

This is actually true. I was thinking this. I know it sucks for a baby to "go hungry" but this was not true hunger. Once I was stuck in traffic with a baby and could not get back to his mother to BF, and we had no bottles. 2 hr long traffic jam. He whimpered a bit, and when he got to his mom he immediately took to the breast but he didn't starve. This is comparable to an adult not eating all day and saying "I'm starvingg!!!!!". No you aren't. I'm sure babies with real hunger issues (ex. developing countries) would be happy to only go an hour or 2 "starving"

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Maybe he was crying from a full belly. Sounds like he ate a lot.

I have never said this but I'm thinking troll or someone who is upset nobody agreed the day care was wrong and she over reacted. Now she is adding details in hopes people will side with her. If he ate at 2:30 and eats every 3 hours then due at 5:30 you got there at 5:30 and he was screaming hysterically from hunger when you walked in. Also why would the day care call you to tell you they were out of breast milk when technically they weren't since he wasn't due to eat until 5:30pm which is the time that you would arrive to pick him up.

[Anonymous]

The baby needs to get over it and drink the formula. What if moms breast milk dries up. Guess baby would starve then. Babies need formula from day one so they don't act like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The baby needs to get over it and drink the formula. What if moms breast milk dries up. Guess baby would starve then. Babies need formula from day one so they don't act like that.

A baby does not need formula. I have taken care of several babies over the year that were all breast fed by their mothers and none of them needed formula.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe he was crying from a full belly. Sounds like he ate a lot.

I have never said this but I'm thinking troll or someone who is upset nobody agreed the day care was wrong and she over reacted. Now she is adding details in hopes people will side with her. If he ate at 2:30 and eats every 3 hours then due at 5:30 you got there at 5:30 and he was screaming hysterically from hunger when you walked in. Also why would the day care call you to tell you they were out of breast milk when technically they weren't since he wasn't due to eat until 5:30pm which is the time that you would arrive to pick him up.

OP here, not a troll. And I get there at 6, not 530, which made it 4hrs before he ate again (inc drive home). There was no reason, at ALL, that this daycare didn't call me to bring him more milk.

[Anonymous]

How are people defending the day care here? 4 hrs is a really long time for a BF baby to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people defending the day care here? 4 hrs is a really long time for a BF baby to go.

He normally goes 3 hours! Yes he was likely hungry, but he wasn't in any imminent danger. OP is way overreacting and was looking for a bunch of pats on the back for "caring" so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people defending the day care here? 4 hrs is a really long time for a BF baby to go.

The daycare only does what the idiot mother instructed them to do. The mother is to blame for not sending anotjet bottle or getting herself over to nursre. Waiting a half hour did no harm to the squalling brat. The daycare center should kick them out because the mother is irresponsible for not sendong tje proper amount of milk.

[Anonymous]

Unbelievable. Mom was not informed they had run out. That was OP's entire point!!

[Anonymous]

What does this have to do with nannying, other than the fact that OP is a nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here, I'm mad the most that they didn't call me to bring more milk. In 7 hours the daycare fed baby 4 bottles. That's a lot of milk, no matter how you slice it.
Anyway, it just crumbled my heart to pieces to hear him cry like that.

You are the nanny not the mother. They should have called the mother and only you if they could not get ahold of the parents.