this morning percy and i spent nearly three hours at her child care centre. the idea is to get her familiar with the place and the staff prior to being there without her parents.
to be honest; i didn't like it. not that it's not a good centre or the children are neglected or anything like that. it's a list of the usual things, none of which are damning; it's not one-on-one care (der), someone won't be available to her constantly to help her walk around, the sleeping room is quite light and cold (21 degrees), the meal times are different to at home... the main thing that put me off tho was the marked difference in how we were treated from the orientation day to today. at orientation we were told that as much as possible the centre staff would follow the routine of the child from home. today i was told lunch is 11am. percy generally wakes from her morning nap at this time, has a bottle of milk and isn't ready for lunch until 12noon. too bad. lunch is 11am. perhaps we could swap the bottle and lunch to fit in. course it doesn't really fit the days she's at home. perhaps she'll be fine with doing three days lunch first and four days lunch second. it might be something small but it is annoying.
she'll have to learn to sleep thu people coming into the cot room. she only got one sleep cycle/ 40 minutes this morning. i put her down (9:30am) and got her to fall asleep (10:05am) and at 10:35 another baby needed a sleep. putting that bub down woke percy, after which she did not go back to sleep.
maybe my presence was not appreciated, maybe i overstayed our welcome.
maybe i'm doing first time mother nerves.
we're going back tomorrow...
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