Infant Experts Help!

[midaycare]

I'm in Michigan too and I read that rule as you have to physically check them regularly and you can't count watching them on a monitor as checking. My licensor says you should physically check on them (make sure they are breathing and sleeping in safe position) every 15 minutes. It's so easy to have different interpretations of the rules though!

ETA: I sleep all of my kids in the same room, but the licensed daycare I used to send my kids to had kids sleeping all over the house. Let me know if you find out I'm wrong!

Interesting. I don't think I wouldn't go any longer than that anyway without checking on an infant. I'm a little paranoid.

[TwinKristi]

Wow they don't make it easy on you huh?? How are we supposed to allow children adequate rest time if we're in there every 15 min?? I mean I totally get it in the big picture but why aren't parents mandated to do this?? Babies die at home from SIDS or suffocation way more than at daycare. Granted this is our job and we're paid professionals, I feel it's extreme to check every 15 mins!!

[craftymissbeth]

Wow they don't make it easy on you huh?? How are we supposed to allow children adequate rest time if we're in there every 15 min?? I mean I totally get it in the big picture but why aren't parents mandated to do this?? Babies die at home from SIDS or suffocation way more than at daycare. Granted this is our job and we're paid professionals, I feel it's extreme to check every 15 mins!!

Infants are more likely to die from SIDS at daycare than home... and within the first few days of starting a new daycare.

Our reg is every 15 minutes, also. Monitors don't count. It's really not a big deal unless you have a dck that wakes up with every little sound.

OP, not all providers agree with me, but IME the babies who are rocked or fed to sleep have a tough time with sleep at daycare. It may be normal now to only sleep 30-60 minutes at a time, but before long it won't be normal. A sleep cycle is something like 30-45 minutes (I think that's how long) and I can tell right away when my kids have trouble going back to sleep it's because they need that little something (rocking, bottle, etc.) to get back to sleep.

Mom needs to stop rocking and feeding to sleep.

ETA: apparently the info has changed. 1 in 5 happens while in the care of someone other than a parent

http://www.childcarelouisiana.org/SIDSchildcaresafesleep.pdf

[melilley]

I'm in Michigan too and I read that rule as you have to physically check them regularly and you can't count watching them on a monitor as checking. My licensor says you should physically check on them (make sure they are breathing and sleeping in safe position) every 15 minutes. It's so easy to have different interpretations of the rules though!

ETA: I sleep all of my kids in the same room, but the licensed daycare I used to send my kids to had kids sleeping all over the house. Let me know if you find out I'm wrong!

This is how I read the rule too. I personally don't put infants in a room where I can't see them because I am also paranoid, but once they are 12+ months, they sleep in different rooms. I have one that sleeps in my room, one in the dc room, and the rest in ds' s room. I still check on them regularly though.

[TwinKristi]

Interesting, I just found an article referencing a lot of that info. Unfortunately it seems to me that suffocation and SIDS prevention are kinda mixed together. A true SIDS death can occur even when every precaution is taken and "risk" is avoided. Suffocation can be prevented.

I found that my state doesn't have any laws mandating safe sleep solutions, just recommendations. Centers have more regulations for infants but small home daycares don't.

[Heidi]

Interesting, I just found an article referencing a lot of that info. Unfortunately it seems to me that suffocation and SIDS prevention are kinda mixed together. A true SIDS death can occur even when every precaution is taken and "risk" is avoided. Suffocation can be prevented.

I found that my state doesn't have any laws mandating safe sleep solutions, just recommendations. Centers have more regulations for infants but small home daycares don't.

My state does have safe sleep regs, but fortunately for me, they don't include sleeping-in-the-same-room.

My practice is to keep them in the main room/living room until it becomes a problem for them, usually at around 3-4 months. After that, they go in to the nearest bedroom so I can do more frequent checks. Once they are rolling over, I stop checking unless I'm worried; like if they have a bad cold, etc.