Andrea's first day of daycare was on monday... Gustavo and i both dropped her off together.. it wasn't to bad.. mommy didn't shed any tears.. i went by around 12 to check on her.. she was sleeping like a sweet little angel :) when i picked her up the teacher said she was a little on the fussy side which was to be expected because of the change...
Day 2: She cried when i left her which broke my heart ... Gustavo picked her up that day because i had to work late.. he said she was playing with another little baby... which made me happy to hear.
Day 3: No tears when i dropped her off but i did things differently.. i sat and played with her and the other babies for a few minutes before i left.. :) when i picked her up that day she was on the floor happy as could be playing with her little baby friends!! i was so happy to see that.
That afternoon she came home with the sniffles.. i put her to bed around 7:30 thinking wow she already has the sniffles lol... to my surprise at 10:30 little one woke up with a 101 fever yeah not so great considering she'd only been in daycare 3 stinkin days.... yuuuuuck... had to cancel my playdate for the following evening with my favorite people.. and i was stuck at the dr basically all day... doc said it's viral and should subside within 72 hours... today's sunday and i'm dreading the whole daycare mission that has to begin all over again tomorrow after a pretty difficult last 4 days of course i couldn't get away unscathed yesterday i woke up feeling like my head was going to explode... now mommy has the sniffles lol... i've been popping vitamins and tylenol cold and flu like its going out of style..so hopefully i'm at least 90% better by tomorrow morning to start this whole craziness all over again. ugh... all i can say is that seeing my little one like this made me feel so guilty about putting her in daycare... almost wondering if we'd waited to have children maybe being a stay at home mommy would be an option for us and i'd be able to keep her from getting sick so often which i know comes with the territory of being in daycare.. but then again i think to myself either now or later she'd have to be exposed to school or daycare and she'd be getting sick just the same...time to suck up the guilt and just move forward.
Liz, there are things that, unfortunately, cannot be prevented... I put Olivia in school at age 2 and I still cried every day for a week.. AND she got sick a lot during the first month...Now, she begs me to take her every morning...it's kinda cute!
ReplyDeleteOh..and we MISS YOU!! and missed you last week during our playdate!
Hope you feel better so we can hang out soon!
We did miss you during the playdate, looking forward to when we can all get together!
ReplyDeleteBrooke's been sick a lot since she started daycare (6 weeks in a row Feb-Mar), but I figure it will strengthen her immune system and she won't get sick so often when she goes to school :-)