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First time mums

daycares attendance rates should be part of advertising/new prospect transparency material and there should be some accountability with daycare associated illnesses and absences

between getting sick (from daycare mind u), getting sent home, and needing to call out sick, our child has already missed at leassst 12 calendar business days of daycare already this year alone. if we include pto we took to go see family for his first birthday, he has been out a total of about 17 calendar days.

there have been “stomach bugs”, hand foot mouth disease, a slew of other upper respiratory infections and even a lice exposure risk event that has been getting us down and out on an almost biweekly to monthly basis since the start of winter and while i know we are kind of “in that season” this is starting to feel a bit toooo unfair that daycares do not prorate or refund or anything at all when our children are getting sick from germs spread in their facility … i see them trying to stay clean, trying to sanitize everything, etc and i do appreciate what they do for our kid when hes in attendance but still we are finding ourselves paying for him to stay home with us a bit too often for the amount it costs to have him enrolled.

we do not have anyone close near able bodied to help so its extra tough when the three of us are all sick altogether but still needing to work in office jobs that we clearly cannot make it to because we just paid a bunch of money to a daycare to infect him with lord knows how many communicable diseases for us to keep him home with us anyway. 😤 and before it comes up, no we cannot NOT work. its not an option because we are supporting our elderly parents who are old and unwell too.

im feeling a bit extra upset about this topic today being on my period and simultaneously being sick with one of the daycare germs we got hit with this week … its rough out here, sending love and prayers to other mamas and papas going through it with us 🫩