Day Care Update

I took Noah in late this morning, and after I dropped him off, I went to the office to talk to the director.

Last night, I also emailed the 3 parents whose emails I had, asking if they could shed any light on what’s going on and any ideas for helping the kids with all the changes.

After talking to the director, I feel better about the short term plans. This week and next week are handled. And I trust that she’s working on a longer term plan, although I don’t know one way or another how well it will work. The two things that still leave me uncomfortable are the lack of a "goodbye" for this teacher when tomorrow there’s one for the other teacher, and more so, the director’s view that all this staff turnover is "out of her hands."

Yes, she has no control over any individual’s career decision. But when you see a pattern of long-term teachers leaving in a short span of time, IMO, management needs to look for how they are responsible, to help retain the next people.

I don’t feel better or worse about the situation after talking to the teacher.

A few of the moms on email feel like there are management problems at the school, as several long-term teachers have left rather abruptly in the last year. All of us are nervous, but open to this having a really good outcome.

Noah was super-fussy and clingy tonight, which is probably a little bit from changes to his school routine, and a little bit from the vaccines on Wednesday. He nursed non-stop from 8:30 – 10:30pm and again from 12:30-1 and 2-2:20 am. (I mostly wrote this from 12:10-12:30, and am finishing at 2:27 am.) Ow. Owwwww. Owwwwwwwwww.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. On top of everything else, another pump died on me at work. K very kindly lent us hers, which we haven’t tried yet and she isn’t sure still works. I wound up going the Avent Isis Iq Uno route, and if you are pregnant or almost pregnant and reading this, the Isis Iq is amazing. It is the gentlest pump I’ve tried, short of the hospital ones. AND you can use it as an electric, battery-operated, or manual pump. So if the motor dies, I can still use it.

Have a picture of Noah.