A while back a bee posted about her LOs' daycare propping bottles up for her to feed instead of someone holding her. I was all up in arms over it and even called it unloving care. Well today one of my clients propped a bottle for her 2 month old using his blankets in his pnp. That mama of four ate her lunch while her LO drank his. I lowered my head in shame. No judgment. I was wrong.
Do you admit when you are wrong?
pomegranate / 3452 posts
I'm confused. How does this make you wrong just bc someone else did it too?
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Haha I used to be so annoyed when I found out they were doing this with my LO but now she can hold her own bottle like a champ which means I can hand one to her and finish cooking our dinner or do whatever else I was in the middle of when she got fussy. It has totally opened up my world.
GOLD / pomelo / 5737 posts
I don't think it's a huge deal either way.
As a side note I followed recommendations not to bottle prop and my just about ten month old refuses to hold her own bottle.
pear / 1723 posts
If child is attended, I don't think it really matters. But I've never done it. Not a fan of any kind of unattended feeding.
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
I still don't think you're wrong. It's one thing for a mother to make this choice for her own child. It's another thing for a paid caregiver to take the easy way out in feeding a child she is in charge of.
squash / 13199 posts
@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I think that was me that posted about this, because my LO was being fed at daycare in a swing with the bottle propped into her mouth! I think what you just described is better though because in my LO's situation the swing was in motion!
coconut / 8475 posts
If a daycare does it: it's wrong. It is their one and only job to watch and take care of the kids.
But a mother? I somehow (and I might be wrong) is a 24/7 job plus cooking cleaning working and life in general...so sometimes, yeah, prop a bottle if you want to. It's a "at your own discretion" type thing.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
@aprk: It doesn't make me wrong, I still wouldn't want my daycare to do this. But as a childless person, I was apalled and basically thought this action would only happen in the hands of a caregiver. Seeing a mom, who obviously loves her child do this, knocked me off my outside-looking in high horse.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
@Mrsbells: I found the original post: http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/daycare-amp-bottle-feeding Apparently this is common in the industry.
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