Tips for starting daycare/rtn 2 work
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Topic: Tips for starting daycare/rtn 2 work
Posted By: chocol8
Subject: Tips for starting daycare/rtn 2 work
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 8:42pm
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It looks like I am going to (reluctantly) go back to work full time.
For you mums who have been through this before, what is your advice for making life easier for both my daughter (who will be 10 months old) and me? |
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Posted By: sarahm
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 8:52pm
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my biggest tip (being an ex manager of an under two's daycare) would be to do transition visits. Stay with her the first couple of visits and then if the centre allows (we did) pop home, up the road etc for an hour or so then come back so its not such a shock the first day!
Another tip if you can afford it, start her at daycare the week before you return to work, you can leave her for slightly longer each day until on the Friday you leave her for a full day. This means you wont spend your first day back at work stressing about how her first day is going if that makes sense. Hope that helps ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: chocol8
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 9:11pm
| Great, thank you so much. Appreciate those practical tips! Hopefully my wee one will go to a Porse carer, but I imagine that transition visits would still be really helpful in that situation too. |
Posted By: Lightning McQueen
Date Posted: 11 December 2010 at 7:54am
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I agree with everything sarahm said! We did about 3 weeks of transition visits (starting for 30 minutes with me there) graduating up to T being there for about 3 hours, having a feed and a sleep.
I also started him a week before I went back to work. I was a blubbering mess the first day, so it was great to be able to go to a friend's house for a coffee rather than work! Also, it's nice to have some time to yourself before you go back to work 
Good luck - it's a hard adjustment initially, but it does become easier and before you know it, it's just the norm. |