How do I prepare for daycare?
Hello all! My sweet LO is nine days old and I’m so in love. I return to work when she is three months old or so and I keep thinking about that horrible morning where I drop her off for the first time. I remember when I toured the daycare one of the babies was screaming in her crib. The daycare is honestly amazing and I believed them when they said that was normal for that baby. The rest of the babies were being tended to or sleeping soundly.
I keep picturing dropping her off and her screaming in an unfamiliar place. I can’t expect them to cuddle her and sing her a song after her bottle and that puts her right to sleep. What if she is traumatized by the new place and all the sights and sounds?
I LOVE my job and we can’t afford to be on one income (VHCOL area) but also I just want to drink in her sweet baby coos all day and night.
I think I’m going through the opposite of post partem depression- I feel love drunk and want to do anything I can over the next three months to mentally prepare both my LO and myself for daycare.
We have no family nearby so she won’t experience sleeping away from home until it’s time for daycare.