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[quote=Anonymous]Hi,

I am a first time mom and have been lucky enough to be with Baby full time for 8 months. Now I am consulting part time from home and since it is *impossible* to get any work done with Baby at home we looked hard for good part time child care. It seemed like we lucked out in finding a great in-home day care run by an older couple (retd. pediatric nurse AND vegetarian, no less). We started Baby out 3 days a week and for around 5 hours a day (though I am paying her for 8 hours each day).

Well today was the 5th day that my daughter was over there and today the day care provider told me that my 8 month old was too clingy, that she cried too much, and that I need to find a full time nanny for her.

Fact: We have not sleep trained (intentionally) and Baby needs 10 mins of rocking to sleep. We had thought we would work with the care provider to slowly ween her off this habit. I had disclosed it to the provider as well when we met her initially.

Fact: Baby is DEEP into separation anxiety phase. One month ago she didnt care if I even existed as long as she got fed. This month I/hubby need to be in view at all times. If I could have put her in day care earlier I would have and maybe that would have eased her anxiety at being away from me now. But the opportunity to spend time with her was too good to pass up. I made sure that she spent time (like 10-12 hours at a stretch) with grandma, grandpa, uncle, family friends etc so that she was used to people other than hubby and I.

Question: What just happened? Is it normal for 8 month olds to get kicked out of day care because they cry for mommy.....on the 5th day they are away from her? Or is it a case of just insanely bad parenting on our part so that our infant can not instantly adapt to any and all people and situations?!
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