What Do You Do With An Infant That..

[Blackcat31]

Please do check your sleeping regs. In MN babies must be in a pac and play or crib (to be changing soon). If they fall asleep in the swing, carseat etc, you need to place them in their designated space. The ONLY thing a parent can sign off on is you are able to place them on their tummies...not in a carseat etc. If a baby has reflux, you need to put a wedge under their mattress. If they need the vibration, you need to set your pac adn play on top of the vibrating chair...

SIDS is a horrible thing. I can't but help wonder how many of the lives saved are due to back sleeping or just becoming more knowledgeable on different things such as smoking, smoking in the house, better food for baby and mama etc? Not trying to dispute the significant drop in SIDS rates....just curious.

In MN infants and babies cannot use a pack and play if the sides are mesh. I have yet to see a PNP that does not have mesh sides personally.

Subp. 9.Infant and newborn sleeping space.There must be a safe, comfortable sleeping space for each infant and newborn. A crib, portable crib, or playpen with waterproof mattress or pad must be provided for each infant or newborn in care. The equipment must be of safe and sturdy construction that conforms to volume 16, parts 1508 to 1508.7 and parts 1509 to 1509.9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, its successor, or have a bar or rail pattern such that a 2-3/8 inch diameter sphere cannot pass through. Playpens with mesh sidings must not be used for the care or sleeping of infants or newborns.

(Infants are defined as children from birth to age 12 months in MN.)

[DancingQueen]

http://www.parenting.com/article/ask-dr-sears-co-sleeping-a-sids-danger

[DancingQueen]

Playpens with mesh sidings must not be used for the care or sleeping of infants or newborns.

I'd love to see what they consider a suitable sleeping pnp for an infant

[youretooloud]

Oh my, don't parents want to enjoy their infants?
that's just wrong. those will be the same parents who drop their kids off for 12 hours even when they have the day off

Well, some mothers have no choice. One boy came to me because his Dad refused to work, and refused to pay child support, and refused to babysit their kids. So, Mom being self employed had to work. She was a process server for lawyers. She left the hospital alone, in her own car, and on her way home from the hospital, she made two stops for her boss. Her newborn was in my care a few days later. He slept constantly for the first two months anyway.

Then the other one was the start of the gulf war. Her husband was a fighter pilot and for some reason the families weren't getting checks back home. So, mom had to go back to work right away.

[youretooloud]

I'd love to see what they consider a suitable sleeping pnp for an infant

I have portable cribs, PLUS PNPs, and those portable cribs aren't very portable at all.

[SilverSabre25]

I'd love to see what they consider a suitable sleeping pnp for an infant

duh...the babies aren't supposed to sleep at daycare! They're supposed to be awake all day long, being taught with the best curriculum materials (that include 30 minute daily science lessons!), so that they go home and sleep all night for their parents and then are magically able to get into the poshest private preschool at age 3--you know, the one that has a tuition that rivals that of Harvard! Gosh, isn't it obvious?!

Can you hear (well, read) the sarcasm?

(I'm still trying to figure out why mesh is dangerous :confused

[DancingQueen]

Originally Posted by lymemomma View Post
Oh my, don't parents want to enjoy their infants?
that's just wrong. those will be the same parents who drop their kids off for 12 hours even when they have the day off

As hard as it is to leave our babies when we really have no choice - I just can't imagine how I would have responded if someone were to have insinuated that I didn't want to enjoy my child.
unfortunately not everyone has a choice (I didn't way back when). parents do the best they can - so they do their best to find providers that are as fantastic as some people on here in hopes that they are (at the very least) giving them someone who will love and care for them in the hours that they have no choice but to be absent.