Really?

Nate's transition to daycare has been a huge adjustment for him.  I gave him two weeks of "sameness" to start out with.  We used the centers bottles, the centers blankets, diapers etc.  At the end of two weeks he still wasn't eating much, or sleeping well and had two really bad cases of diaper rash.  The diaper rash has already resolved itself.  Vaseline fixes anything. 

After two weeks we started to make minor adjustments, the first change was we brought in a set of our bottles.  When Nate was born, we had to supplement and getting him back on the boob was really important to me.  He came out as a great latcher but after a week of primarily formula he would refuse to latch.  A friend told us to try to Tommee Tippee anti-colic bottles because a) they were shaped more like a boob and it might help him get his latch back and b) my boy is a ninja when it comes to spitting up and I was very quickly running out of clean shirts.

These bottles are AMAZING.  Seriously - we love them.  They have only one draw back.  They are expensive.  Like, $10 a bottle expensive.  My dad bought us the "newborn gift set" which had two 4 oz bottles and four 9 oz. bottles.  We were happy, Nate was happy.  His latching got better, his gas disappeared and the spit-ups got less intense.  We really, really didn't want to have to spend $40 for 4 bottles.  But we did, and we noticed an immediate improvement.

So, eating is taken off the list of concerns.  Now we're dealing with sleeping.

Nate comes home from daycare exhausted.  He takes two short naps, instead of the three or four hour long naps he'd take at home in the same time period. Nate is still swaddled, he loves it, he sleeps, I sleep, it's awesome.  I've told his teacher he needs it, but it sounds like she's not very good at it.

I brought in a swaddleme for her to use - that and a receiving blanket and this kid will sleep for hours.  I showed her how to use it on Wednesday and she was really happy to have it and told me they'd start using it for his next nap.  I really hope that helps solve this problem.

All of that leads me into what has me getting all mama bear.

Nate slept great last night.  He got up at 5:30, was happy, we played, we ate, we got dressed and by the time we got to daycare he was ready for a nap.  The teacher that's handling drop offs this week isn't in his room, which is the only reason I'm not completely freaking out.

I swaddled Nate in the swaddleme and showed her how we use it in combination with the receiving blanket.  I give Nate his binky and get him all nice and calm and relaxed - drowsy, but awake, which is how we put him down at home. I put Nate down, tell him I love him, and go to put on my shoes and coat.  Nate's awake, his eyes are open, but he's just happily sucking on his binky and looking around.  The teacher walks over to him, says "He's not sleepy" picks him up and walks away from us.

Really?  I'm his mother - do you REALLY think that I don't know when he's ready to go down?  He wasn't crying, or fussing.  He was laying there and if he had been left alone he would have fallen asleep.  If he hadn't, fine, pick him up. But god damn, give him a chance to fall asleep.

Anyway, rant over.  She's not his teacher so this isn't going to be a continuing problem, I just get mad thinking about it.

Blerg