Most of the time I'm happy with our daycare, but days like yesterday make me with I could quit work and just stay home.

It turns out we all got a bit of food poisoning from the restaurant we went to on Sunday night. It didn't kick in until later in the day yesterday though, so E was at daycare and ended up with diarrhea. At some point he must have sat in a dirty diaper for an extended period of time because he ended up with a raging diaper rash.

I picked him up last night and his regular teacher was not in his room. A floater told me he had been upset that afternoon, but they let him have his paci while he was playing (not something we normally allow) and he seemed fine. No mention of diarrhea or diaper rash. I picked him up to leave though and he screamed bloody murder all the way until we got home. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, he wouldn't eat and in desperation I let him watch some cartoons. He pooped, so I went to change him and found the diaper rash. It looked like a chemical burn and there was definitely no ointment on it. He screamed in pain the whole time and I felt so badly for him. We put him to bed, but he pooped a few hours later and woke up screaming in pain again. We just hosed him off in the shower, trying to minimize irritating the area more.

I'm just so so irritated. How long was he sitting in a dirty diaper, why didn't anyone put any aquaphor on it? We brought some to daycare just recently. How long had he been sitting in his diaper yesterday afternoon that the floater didn't change it and realize that he had a raging diaper rash and that's why he was upset?

To make it all worse, I have major guilt because I couldn't take off work today to stay home with him, so he's back at school. DH talked to them at drop off today and his regular teacher said it was her fault? ummm, ok I guess. I've been sitting at my desk all day just imagining reaming out his daycare teachers, which of course would not be socially acceptable, and I'd never have the guts to do anyway. So on top of everything else, I've been super unproductive which nearly defeats the purpose of having to come in to work in the first place!

Sorry this is a novel, I really needed to vent. WOHM problems...