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Creches - Anyone use them? I am scared!

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 10:42

I really want to start swimming more, and the local centre has a creche but I just don't know about leaving DS. He is 13 months, and an easy baby but I feel really guilty if I left him there for an hour. Are staff really qualified? I am scared he will want something and they won't know - he has a hungry cry, a thirsty cry, a milk cry, a dirty bum cry, a tired cry, a bored cry, a "I have got my toy stuck" cry and I am worried they won't know what to do Please someone come along and tell me it's all right (unless it isn't!). I was thinking about once, maybe twice a week. Not for long, hour maximum really...
Thanks x

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Bubble99 · 16/05/2007 10:45

The creche at our local gym will come and get parents from classes if their child is upset and cannot be comforted.

Maybe ask if yours could come and let you know if DS needs you?

BarryScott · 16/05/2007 10:47

I am a qualified creche assistant

He will be fine, I left ds whilst I done my training course... they will come and get you if he needs you.

(mellowma) xx

morningpaper · 16/05/2007 10:47

My local gym had a creche which was basically like a padded pit where babies screamed and threw up, so I couldn't bring myself to use it

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ChocolateFace · 16/05/2007 10:50

As a really over protective SAHM, let me assure you that the Creche will have been checked by Ofsted (you can ask to see their report- you may even be able to find it on line). Go and have a look at the creche before leaving your DS there. Take time to settle him in and see how the staff intereact with the children. Any decent creche won't mind you staying with your son to settle him.
I really think it can do SAHM's a world of good to have a break from their DC's for an hour or two a week.
It'll be another thing altogether though, whether your DS's wants to be left. I know at 13 months my DC's would kick up a huge fuss if I tried to leave them with anyone unfamiliar.
Good luck!

It will be atotally diferent matter whether your DS will be happy for you to leave him, however

ChocolateFace · 16/05/2007 10:51

I wondered where that last line had gone!

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:14

I know he would love it - I have checked the ofsted report aswell. Maybe I will go and stay with him at first, see what the place is like - it looks ok as far as I could see.

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:19

they don't allow food and they don't change nappies

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daisy1999 · 16/05/2007 11:25

I have worked in an excellent sports centre creche but I have also seen bad ones .
With my children I tried 3 sports centres before I found one I was happy with. Go in, look around, ask questions and if you're happy start by leaving your ds for just half an hour whilst you have a coffee and then go back. I think you will know fairly quickly whether you are happy with it .

Bellie · 16/05/2007 11:27

Quootiepiem - really surprised that they don't allow food or change nappies! The creche at our local sport centre even helped when I was potty training dd!!

If you are not happy about leaving him in the creche is there another mum that you could take turns with looking after the children whilst you (alternately) go swimming?

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:30

It's only a sports centre creche, 60 mins, 90 mins or maximum 120 mins stay. It makes me want to train as a nursery nurse! Don't know anyone to do that with, only thing is if I go evening and my sister baby sits, but it kind of defeats the point of it - I was trying to get out without DH during the day and do things. Maybe I will just take DS swimming and have my sister babysit in evenings, best of both worlds then

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:31

But then I do want him used to places like that because pre-school is looming... hmmm

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hunkermunker · 16/05/2007 11:33

Preschool is looming? What age do they start preschool near you, QP?

ChocolateFace · 16/05/2007 11:33

If they dont' change nappies, be prepared to be called out of the pool to change your DS!

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:35

Well, 2 I think? 2 and a half.

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:35

Yes, they call you to change nappies - I will be running down in my suit and a towel!

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LIZS · 16/05/2007 11:36

How can they be Ofsted approved for lo's if they don't even change nappies ? ! Forget about any need to prepare him for prechool , makes no odds at this age. i'm sure he'll be ok if you just do 60 minutes or does the pool have a playpen on the poolside perhaps ?

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:36

Seems looming to me, the past year has gone so quick and I want him to be used to having a little time away from me - he is with me 24/7 at the mo.

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oliveoil · 16/05/2007 11:36

I didn't leave my two with anyone apart from family

overprotective maybe, but I wouldn't leave my handbag with a stranger, let alone my baby

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:37

I was abit suprised when they said they didn't do nappies... no idea why that would be really. Let me dig out the report again.

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hunkermunker · 16/05/2007 11:37

It's likely to be over a year away he starts preschool - DS1 didn't start till he was 2.9 - and I'd never left him somewhere like that before.

Bit traumatic to start with (see thread talking of him saying "Oh, dear, oh, dear" over and over and sobbing on the first day I left him), but now he charges in and talks about his friends at preschool.

Think back a year to what your DS was like then - he'll be as different again in another year, so don't make decisions based on that child for the one you have now.

hunkermunker · 16/05/2007 11:39

OO, I didn't leave mine with anyone but family either, for the same reasons.

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:39

OO -I am the same, so don't worry - hence coming on here and asking about creches! Maybe I will just let my sister babysit, I mean that's still spending a little time apart (wasn't the aim, the aim was just a quick swim!)

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nailpolish · 16/05/2007 11:40

i think i would use a creche if i checked it out first

treat it like a nursery you plan to use regularly - take ds and stay with him there for
twenty mins or so. talk to the teachers and assistants and the other parents. look closely at the other children - are they busy? bored? clean? needing changed?

etc

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Quootiepie · 16/05/2007 11:40

oh righty, I thought I might be doing him a favour - thank god for MN I'll just wait until pre-school, I'll be alot happier that way, I thought I was depriving him somehow

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nailpolish · 16/05/2007 11:41

some people have to choice

you could say a CM is a stranger

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