To ask your opinion on sending babies to nursery without having breakfast?

[Babybunny88]

I work in a day nursery with babies and am astounded by the number of patents who say their baby has been up from 6am (or before) and are starving, please give them breakfast .

We open at 7.30 and sometimes even have parents bring their babies in at 9am with no breakfast or even a bottle before hand. One little girl was brought in at 9.10am and had nothing to eat or drink apart from a bottle that she got at 4am . Another little girl is put into her high chair every morning with nothing while
Her parents sit beside her at the table eat breakfast. One time apparently she grabbed a piece of toast of her dads plate and he wasn't very happy as it was his breakfast and she had to wait until she for to nursery before having hers!

I think my DD would be going into the kitchen and making her own breakfast if I didn't give her any! Really is there any need not to feed your baby before nursery? Is it laziness? Opinions please.

DS is up around 6.45am and he has breakfast at home (usually two bowls of cereal), then he has breakfast again at nursery at 9.00am, lunch, dinner and when I pick him up he has a snack like a banana and rice cakes.

He has a big appetite and wouldn't wait to have his first breakfast at nursery. Far from obese in response to Pobblewhohasnotoes - maybe he's got a fast metabalism or maybe he just burns off a lot of energy

Actually on Tuesday, he had two breakfasts, lunch, two portions of dinner at nursery, a banana and 8 rice cakes when I picked him up and another meal at the inlaws house!

I cannot believe this thread is still on the go. Babies under 1 who are hungry cry loudly and all but the shittiest parents meet their needs for food. The OP cannot possibly back up her frankly ludacrious assertions that people are wilfully not feeding hungry kids bottles, breastfeeds or even slices of toast or lumps of banana because she is not in their house to make such conclusions. All she knows for definite is that by 9 o clock they are hungry again and then it is her job to feed them breakfast. OP what point are you trying to make in this thread that you do not want to feed hungry babies?

Children don't have to have breakfast at nursery just because the nursery provides it, the op was posting about those children who are brought in late on e.g 9am plus when they have been awake for a good while!

I actually had a friend who didn't give her DS breakfast at home as breakfast was included in the nursery fees. Poor sod used to wake up at 5.30am and would not go to nursery until 8.30am. So for three hours he was awake and I believe hungry as she used to say he'd try and eat her toast! I don't know if he had a bottle. My DS at that age would have breakfast with me then if hungry could have breakfast at nursery. Same with dinner. He's not overweight. I felt so sorry for that little boy.

Not the same thing but I have known a mum who didn't change her dds nappy in the morning unless she had poo'ed as nursery provided nappies

I don't feed any of my children in the morning.

We get up at 7, leave at 7.30. DD and ds 2 get to the childminder at 7 45 where they eat breakfast and ds gets to breakfast club at 8 where he gets breakfast.

If they are hungry then can have a piece of fruit but ds1 or dd rarely do. Ds2 often does, he is 1.

ds2 also has at least three breastfeeds between 11pm and 5am!!

I am firmly in the camp of why would anyone give a child two breakfasts. If they are clearly distressed they should be given food but routinely given two breakfasts is ridiculous.

I forgot to feed DS2 breakfast this morning. Well, I like to think DH did really since he went downstairs and ate breakfast without him (I don't eat breakfast). I got to school and realised he hadn't had anything.

It's because he used to have breakfast every morning at nursery (at 8.30) so he hasn't needed it at home until now (except at the weekend). If we fed him first, he'd just eat two breakfasts anyway (and then wouldn't be hungry when offered something less crap than cereal later).

I will remember to make DH give him breakfast while I'm in the shower tomorrow though.

There is a big difference between babies and toddlers. Under 1 year mine always had a bottle (or equivalent) before nursery but now at 2 and 4 they don't get anything before 8:30 at nursery except water which is always available at their bedsides.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with feeling hunger. It is a natural feeling that everyone should have before meals. Mine also don't have snacks at home, which seems to be an obsession with a lot of parents I know. I always carry snacks as my son has blood sugar issues when poorly and I am highly tuned to his food needs but I don't give them unless necessary. They have 3 big meals and are both good weights, I do think it's ridiculous to suggest parents who don't give toddlers food within an hour of rising are neglectful.

All of mine (5 months 4&5 years) are fed by 7am even on a weekend, there would be a riot if they weren't!

blondefriend, I would say within an hour is not a big deal if rushing to get kids out the door to CM or nursery where they will be fed within an hour of waking (I had some other friends whose twins couldn't face food straight away) but 3 hours which my friend did and I think what the OP is referring to is not good imo.