Bottle to Bed?

[Mamma_Mia]

So what if the parent was insisting? Would you just not tell them? What about the transition and weaning from the bottle? They are GOING to cry for sure, do you let them cry? Do you let the parents know that's the plan? Am I just telling the parents too much?

Do you have a trial period - where you can terminate care if it's just not a good fit...

I'd maybe offer a teddy or soft music - something else to make up for the 'lost' bottle OR try like the ladies said above...try with water instead.

The BIGGEST Problem is the parents are insisting - I'm sorry but I make the rules here, if they don't like it then they can find someone else who will let them make all the rules. This is just the begining.....if they're already telling you how to run your home and "make" you change your original rules....good luck in 5/6/7months from now. What else are you going to change for them because they are "insisting"?

[lunademiel]

The BIGGEST Problem is the parents are insisting - I'm sorry but I make the rules here, if they don't like it then they can find someone else who will let them make all the rules. This is just the begining.....if they're already telling you how to run your home and "make" you change your original rules....good luck in 5/6/7months from now. What else are you going to change for them because they are "insisting"?

Yep this is where I wondered if this was a power struggle issue more then the actual bottle issue. This is not the 1st time my policies have been questioned with this particular parent. First it was my policies regarding vacation, then scheduled nap times, and now the insisting the bottle is necessary for nutrition. I honestly prefer her being weaned from the bottle at home since they have a month to do it. This is why it's in my policies to prepare the child for the transition. So now the child is going to have to adjust to daycare AND not getting the bottle to fall asleep. I also just don't understand why it's being questioned, my daycare, my rules!

It's amazing how much backbone is required for this business

[sunnydays]

Milk is necessary for nutrition...not the bottle! And, if the child will not take milk in a cup, he/she can still have the bottle before going to bed; that's what I do with those who are on bottles...I give it to them after lunch and then they go for their naps. From a parental point of view, I can understand wanting the child to have the bottle if he won't drink from a cup (I was in this position with my middle son and was thankful that his daycare provider was fine with me sending bottles as I wanted him to have the amount of milk my doctor was recommending). However, I can't understand why they are so insistent about him having it in bed with him, especially if they are aware that this is bad for his teeth (this has been pretty common knowledge for quite some time...I remember it from when my first son was a baby almost 17 years ago).

Yep this is where I wondered if this was a power struggle issue more then the actual bottle issue. This is not the 1st time my policies have been questioned with this particular parent. First it was my policies regarding vacation, then scheduled nap times, and now the insisting the bottle is necessary for nutrition. I honestly prefer her being weaned from the bottle at home since they have a month to do it. This is why it's in my policies to prepare the child for the transition. So now the child is going to have to adjust to daycare AND not getting the bottle to fall asleep. I also just don't understand why it's being questioned, my daycare, my rules!

It's amazing how much backbone is required for this business