Sleepsack at daycare

[jackie011]

Does your daycare center provide a sleepsack for your child to use during the day?  If so, at what age do they no longer provide a sleep sack? 

If your center does not provide one, do you bring one from home?  Is it implied, encouraged, or you just do it because that's what you want for your own child? 

[SJ]

No to all questions. We sporadically use a sleep sack at home, but she has never used one at DC.

[water*drop]

We changed centers after DD was an infant, but my old center did not provide sleep sacks. They did tell us that we were welcome to bring one. We did not bring one, but some parents did.

[Brie]

They have never provided them and we never asked them to use one. I think, for infants under one, they would not be allowed because they're very strict about nothing else being in the crib. And I don't think they're really necessary at daycare anyway--it's not like they are dealing with a nighttime temperature dip.

All we've ever had to provide for naps is a fitted sheet. Now that he's older (from 18 months on or so) we send a small blanket and lovey as well but those are optional.

[spk926]

At our center they weren't allowed at all per state licensing rules.

Now we go to an inhome and after a few days of DD waking up, daycare lady going in and finding her naked she asked me to send one. For inhomes licensing allows it.

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[jackie011]

Hmm, I never thought to check out licensing restrictions.

This topic cane up because the sleeping rooms are pretty chilly. We discussed the various ways to handle it and the easiest solution was to use fleece sleep sacks. However, at a minimum of $15 a piece, some are griping about the price, as there are lots of other things the center would rather purchase

I (a teacher in the school and a parent of a 9 month old in the infant room) asked if it was out of the question to just encourage parents to provide a fleece sleep sack for the winter. I was told that "parents pay a lot of money to send their kids here and they expect good service." Yes, I'm well aware, as one of those parents! However, I have no problem bringing in a fleece sleep sack if that's what my child needs.

[niq]

Both daycares don't use sleep sacks. The old one said it was because of licensing. I haven't looked closely to see if they're for real or just didn't want to be bothered.

[pinkdutchtulips]

i'd give it a major side eye as i never used sleep sacks with dd. it's an expense i'd expect them to foot since it's only the initial purchase that the center would have to foot and then they'd have sleepsacks for ALL kids down the road.

[Yankees21]

We brought in a sleep sack for N to use to provide consistency. I definitely wouldn't expect daycare to supply it.

[countthestars]

Jan 15, 2015 23:50:41 GMT -5 pinkdutchtulips said:

i'd give it a major side eye as i never used sleep sacks with dd. it's an expense i'd expect them to foot since it's only the initial purchase that the center would have to foot and then they'd have sleepsacks for ALL kids down the road.

really? How is it different than having to bring in crib sheets or extra clothes or whatnot? It sounds like it would be encouraged, not forced.

Eta: And all that laundry!!

[heygrey]

can you just turn the heat up in the rooms? that seems like the easiest solution.

[lolo]

Jan 15, 2015 23:54:36 GMT -5 Yankees21 said:

We brought in a sleep sack for N to use to provide consistency. I definitely wouldn't expect daycare to supply it.

This is us too.

[curbsideprophet]

Jan 16, 2015 0:58:17 GMT -5 heygrey said:

can you just turn the heat up in the rooms? that seems like the easiest solution.

I think there are regulations on what temp the infant room needs to be. I think it is part of the safe sleep protocol.

Our center does not use or provide sleep sacks. I don't know if we are allowed to bring one in or not. We use them at home but never asked at daycare. I would not have a problem providing one if requested.

[cricketwife]

I brought a dleekssck tor the infant room because its what we fur at home. Now that he sleeps on a cot, I supply the blanket. I would never expect them to provide one. I would also not expect the room to be so cold that a fleece one is an s solute necessity.

[thebreakfastclub]

They do not allow sleep sacks at my center. I did not have to provide crib sheets.

I provide a blanket for his cot now.

[jackie011]

Jan 16, 2015 0:58:17 GMT -5 heygrey said:

can you just turn the heat up in the rooms? that seems like the easiest solution.

We're part of a huge community campus and have no control over our heat. We've brought this up to maintenance several times. It's also been about 10 degrees lately, so I'm sure that's a large part of the problem!

Thanks for your responses. It's helpful to get responses from people in other places and perspectives.

[Blue Moon]

I send my DD with one.

[kershnic]

We brought them. Daycare said to bring anything they need for sleep.

[robinsbff]

We bring one because he started there when he was still swaddled for naps. They wouldn't swaddle him in a blanket but would use a sack that Velcroed closed. We don't swaddle for sleep anymore but do keep the sleepsac there since its part of his napping/sleeping routine. Some kids have some and some kids don't. It's all up to the parent.

They provide crib sheets and bibs. The sleepsacs I would not expect them to provide since its different for every kid, they don't all use them, it's so child/family dependent. But they do all use sheets and bibs so providing them makes sense. If you are going to require all kids to sleep in them then I would expect the center to provide them I guess. But if it's optional then it should be parent provided.

[Deleted]

The list of items to bring in included bedding. I brought in a sleep sack for him until he moved to the older infant room. At that point they started sleeping on cots so he was no longer allowed a sleep sack. I then sent in a blanket for him.

Eta: he moved rooms at 15mos. We didnt do blankets at home until well past a year so we sent in to daycare the same.set up he had at home which was a sleep sack. I do know one Co worker whose daycare provides sleep sacks.

[degal99]

We sent one when DD was younger. Once she started standing in them they didnt want to use it anymore. We still use them at home though.

[andthentherewere10]

They aren't provided but I would have 0 problem providing one.

[kdubs923]

Our first daycare allowed them, but were not required. They told us to send anything that that he'd normally sleep with to make him comfortable. I sent a swaddle and it was used occasionally.

At our current daycare, they are not allowed. We send a fitted crib sheet, but nothing else is allowed in his crib. When he moves to the cot, I believe he's allowed a blanket or lovey.

ETA: I wouldn't be mad if daycare encouraged me to bring a sleep sack. I would consider it part of his bedding, like the crib sheet. I don't expect that to be provided by daycare.

[undecidedowl]

Our daycare encourages it but also has some of their own for people who choose not to purchase them.

[kittycatlove]

We brought our own. The teachers in the baby room at the time had never even seen one before :? (DS is 3.5, so it wasn't that long ago) but were fine with it.  We mostly brought it so it was consistent to what we were doing at home.

[everafter07]

DD is in one at home, but despite being provided one by us, DC lady didn't use it, so we stopped sending. She doesn't really need it, it's just extra warm. DC is a lot warmer than home. But yes, we provided it when we sent one.

[dougthedogsmom]

We bought our own. I haven't heard of any DCs in this area that will provide one for you. Some of the hospitals are now though, which is my mind is fabulous marketing by Halo.

[D2M]

Our daycare requires a zippered sleepsack. I never thought this was weird. They will not swaddle (not an issue for my DD at this age, anyway), which I assumed was for safety/liability reasons, but I never asked. I would not expect DC to provide a sleepsack. Even though plenty of things are shared at daycare and she's exposed to lots of germs and grossness as is, the idea of using a communal sleepsack skeeves me out.