Re: childcare for baby in FAB

[Guest guest]

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I understand your concern. My husband is a firefighter and works

24hour shifts. I am a nurse and after was born I went prn so I

work on his days off. is three now and this has been our

arrangement for almost 3 years now. We didn't even utilize childcare

with our first child. It was family and that was our plan with

until he was born with clubfoot. actually stayed with my

parents when we needed a sitter up through when he first got the

DBB. We had issues with it in the beginning and each time he would

slip my dad would have to bring him to the hospital and we would have

to spend 15-20 minutes getting his feet back in right. My husband

and I decided on the new arrangement because if anything negative

happened with 's feet (sores, etc) we wanted to know we were the

ones responsible for it. No one else ever even put his shoes on

until a couple of weeks ago (and he just turned 3). I know that may

seem a little obsessive but that's just the way we dealt with it.

You have to do what you feel best about. Good luck with finding what

works for you and your family.

Pam and (8-12-01)

> > > Hello! What city/state are you going to be looking for

childcare

> in? I

> > > know someone who is huge into home daycares and she might be

able to

> > get you

> > > some good names if she knows anyone in the area.

> > >

> > > Good luck!

> > >

> > >

> > > childcare for baby in FAB

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> > > > Hi all,

> > > > Just looking for some advice. Luckily I will be staying home

> with my

> > > > baby for a full twelve weeks after he is born but if all goes

as

> > > > planned, he will still be in the FAB 23/7 when I have to go

back to

> > > > work. My daughter is currently in a daycare that we

are " okay "

> with.

> > > > I'm not so sure they will be the right choice for my son.

Does

> > > > anyone have any suggestions on what characteristics to look

for when

> > > > choosing a childcare provider who can properly take care of

my son

> > > > when he is wearing the brace? What kind of questions would

you

> ask if

> > > > you were in my place?

> > > >

> > > > Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

> > > >

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[Guest guest]

OK, those are valid concerns but what about this? .... at first it'll be 23

hours a day so they won't need to take them off at the care center. Then 18

hours a day, I assume you would want those 6 hours free at home, so again, no

issue with putting them on right. Or depending on your office hours, the care

givers coudl take the shoes off at X o'clock prior to you going home with

him....then you put them back on from home later that night. When it goes down

to the 12 - 14 hours a day you can put them on in the evening around dinner time

and have them removed early the next moring so the baby would be " free " all day

at day care after that point. I'm not trying to boo-hoo your situation at all,

the opposite really, I just don't thing the DBB is that big of a deal to work

around provided there are not problems with blisters, etc. But I do remember

before my son started to wear his, I had a lot of concerns too, I thought it

would be a lot harder to deal with than it turned out to be.

s.

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Subject: Re: childcare for baby in FAB

My daughter is not the one with clubfoot, (sorry I guess this was all

explained in the original post of this thread) we're expecting a

little boy who has been diagnosed w/ clubfoot. I'm just concerned

that the daycare my daughter goes to now (which is where he would go

as well), while they are capable and a pretty good center for a child

with no difficulties, will not be able to handle the responsibility of

putting the DBB on the baby correctly, dealing with any problems he

may have with the DBB, and communicating with me if there are issues.

Thanks for your input.

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