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I had a family come tour with me at my daycare recently. The baby was 4 months old but very small. Maybe weighed about 8-9 lbs at the most. I was taken back by how tiny she was. The baby was crying thru the whole 30 minute tour and sounded like a newborn. The parents were taking turns holding her but she never seemed to be happy even with constant movement.
I got some red flags during the tour... like the mom said that she needed to put her in daycare for some sanity time... how she constantly has to move around while holding her... how she has feeding issues where she never gets full, so they had to cut her feedings back which makes her even more fussy. There were a lot of red flags.
Then at the end of the tour, the mom tells me that she was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome while in utero. I guess they had an ultrasound early on and found a growth on the back of her neck which triggered the doctors to do a special amnio type test to check for this Turner Syndrome. She did indeed have it. I guess she had a 10% chance of surviving thru the pregnancy but she made it.
I asked the mom what it was and she just said it was that she was missing a female chromosome so she wont ever have puberty or mensturate and would have to do invitro as a woman in order to get pregnant. She will have to take special growth hormones and whatnot later in life. She looked healthy to me - although she had low ears and really chubby feet and kind of a thick neck. And very small.
What made me really nervous was when she said that babies with this syndrome sometimes have heart problems so they keep having to get her heart checked. So far the dr's think its ok but are always monitoring her.
I asked the mom if she is paranoid with her condition - like during naps and things like that. She said that she is always scared and watches her constantly... never lets her sleep alone...holds her thru naps and constantly checks on her because they are paranoid her heart will give out.
Have any of you had a daycare baby with this condition? My husband said I should pass on this one and I think hes right. Even without knowing her condition, I already saw lots of red flags with how difficult it would be caring for her along with my other little ones. She just never seemed happy and the parents looked so tired and were so eager to get her into a daycare. I feel bad saying no to them, but I think for my own sanity and for liabilty reasons, maybe its the best thing I should do...
I got some red flags during the tour... like the mom said that she needed to put her in daycare for some sanity time... how she constantly has to move around while holding her... how she has feeding issues where she never gets full, so they had to cut her feedings back which makes her even more fussy. There were a lot of red flags.
Then at the end of the tour, the mom tells me that she was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome while in utero. I guess they had an ultrasound early on and found a growth on the back of her neck which triggered the doctors to do a special amnio type test to check for this Turner Syndrome. She did indeed have it. I guess she had a 10% chance of surviving thru the pregnancy but she made it.
I asked the mom what it was and she just said it was that she was missing a female chromosome so she wont ever have puberty or mensturate and would have to do invitro as a woman in order to get pregnant. She will have to take special growth hormones and whatnot later in life. She looked healthy to me - although she had low ears and really chubby feet and kind of a thick neck. And very small.
What made me really nervous was when she said that babies with this syndrome sometimes have heart problems so they keep having to get her heart checked. So far the dr's think its ok but are always monitoring her.
I asked the mom if she is paranoid with her condition - like during naps and things like that. She said that she is always scared and watches her constantly... never lets her sleep alone...holds her thru naps and constantly checks on her because they are paranoid her heart will give out.
Have any of you had a daycare baby with this condition? My husband said I should pass on this one and I think hes right. Even without knowing her condition, I already saw lots of red flags with how difficult it would be caring for her along with my other little ones. She just never seemed happy and the parents looked so tired and were so eager to get her into a daycare. I feel bad saying no to them, but I think for my own sanity and for liabilty reasons, maybe its the best thing I should do...
: Obviously not the same as a child though
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