Can I ask a few daycare questions?

[panicked]

She's only been there 10 days. She needs time to adjust. If she's still having issues in a month, revisit.

[mandapanda18]

On the crying, I think she needs time to adjust, but my kid never comes home dirty from daycare. If he gets food all over his shirt while eating (they have the nice armed bibs that I sent) they change his shirt. If he gets dirty playing outside, they wash him up. Common sense in my opinion.

[sent]

About the food and filth - I felt like DD came home grimy every day but not because the place was dirty, just baby grime from having 5 babies in 1 room and mealtimes involved. I once accidentally sent a long sleeved bib and they loved it and asked us to send another one so maybe if you have some of those (Ikea), that will help with less food-related dirt. DD was also wearing small shoes by the time I took her to daycare, so I never noticed the black feet but regardless, I pretty much dunked her in the tub the moment we got home.

[meij]

Does she go outside to a playground? What do they have for covering? Tire chips, rubber mulch or the black springy foam? All those things could turn her feet black if she was crawling on it.

[ava]

1 - My DD was that way around that age. She would nap 45 min at most every day. I think it's just a phase, and wouldn't be too worried since her sleep is still good at home.
2 - She's adjusting
3 - I had a problem with DD being dirty when I picked her up too. I hated it at first and then the more I thought about it, I was ok with it because she's happy and well cared for in every other sense so it stopped bothering me.

[meij]

Her hands aren't filthy though? So they must wash her hands at least? If she was getting filthy crawling on the floor her hands and knees would be really dirty too. I'd probably start putting her in Robeez type shoes so her feet will stay clean. I think it's really weird they don't do a wipe down, but her face and hands are clean which would be most important to me. The dirty feet is strange though.

[shellbear09]

1-2 I think are unfortunately part of the transition and hopefully will improve soon. I think 3 would bother me too. DD was never very dirty until she was in the toddler room. Humm I don't understand how infants are getting another one's food assuming they are in high chairs? At least in ours there was only one at a time eating and in a high chair. Anyway If she did get very dirty with food I would expect a change. I think all of these are manageable though and not deal breakers. If you are uncomfortable with something absolutely ask about it and do not feel bad one bit.

[VillainV]

It took Colin about 4 weeks to adjust to his new daycare (he was 13 months at the time, so a little bit older). None of these would be a deal breaker to me. Have you talked to them about these issues at least?

For me, personally, I get kind of miffed when they change him for just a little bit of food on his clothes. I mean a LOT of food, sure. But normal toddler eating mess that the bib doesn't catch? Not a big deal to me. I hate doing double laundry because daycare changes him for small stuff. Maybe they've had comments from other parents about this so they don't change for a small amount of food. But if you tell them you prefer that get gets put into clean clothes, they should fix it.

[Velar Fricative]

None are dealbreakers. Do you send in extra clothes? DD has come home dirty when they ran out of both my supplied extra clothes and their leftover pool of clothes. At your DD's age, they were good about changing clothes when dirty. Now at 21 months, they do more arts and crafts so it can be tricky.

[ssmjlm]

E never napped well in the infant room. She napped regularly when she switched to the early walkers room and everyone napped at the same time.