Day care update

On Monday, I took Mr. Baby for his first hour of day care.  It did not go as well as I had hoped.  I got there about 10 minutes early so I could feed him a bottle and let him get a little bit used to the new place before I left him with the new people there. However, with so much going on he took almost half an hour to drink his bottle.  So already there goes about 20 minutes of my baby-free time. sigh!  I hand him over to the lady and tell her that if he cries for more than 15 minutes solidly then please give me a call as I don't want him to start having negative thoughts on day care right from the start.  And off I head. 

I expected to be getting a phone call after 15 minutes so I raced over to the shops as I needed to buy my niece a birthday present and a few other things.  I get through all the shopping and arrive back at the day care centre at 1pm on the dot, thinking to myself "Wow, he must have done so much better than I thought since they didn't have to call me at all".  I walk in the front door and I cannot hear a crying baby so am still thinking how great he must have done with this new challenge.  And then I get inside and can't see him anywhere in there.  I look outside and this poor frazzled lady has him in his stroller and is rolling him around the play area as Mr. Baby cries his head off.  sigh!  So much for that idea....

Still, I have booked him in for another hour tomorrow as the lady said there was a whole 10 minutes when he didn't cry.  I am going to give it three visits and see if the crying time gets less or not. 

I'm also going to look into finding a mother's helper.  That way, Mr. Baby can be at home and I will still be there, but he is still getting to interact with someone else and eventually I can start to leave him alone with that person perhaps.  I think I will feel more comfortable with that - no day care centre is ever as clean as your own house is and I worry that the staff will just leave him crying in a corner. I know they probably won't but still, I worry.  I suppose it's difficult for both the baby and myself to get used to the separation! 

In other news, we had lunch today with our new friends Sara and Kelly (and their bubba's of course).  I really like them both and am very glad that I reached out to them. We're going to meet up for lunch next week too.