This isn't even a rant so much as a 
kinda thing.
I work at a preschool (which I have posted about before) and I'm hoping that I will not be working there by the time dd is born, but I haven't told them that, so as far as they know she will be coming to work with me and going in the infant room once she turns 6 weeks.
Probably a week ago I made the discovery that they don't believe in "spoiling" the babies. I discovered this because I happened to be back there while one of the little ones (12 weeks) was crying and I offered to grab him and was told that he was crying because he is "spoiled" and likes to be rocked to sleep. I ended up giving an impromptu informative speech on cortisol and stress in babies, lol.
so fast forward to today, my coworker had bought her dd this doll that requires some kind of "real" baby food and I was half-jokingly telling her that since my babies don't eat jar food, she could have the ones off my WIC checks for this doll. Which caused total outrage over the fact that I "starve" my babies by ONLY feeding them milk until 6 months or so. fwiw ds actually started eating table foods before then, but we never used the jar stuff except in emergencies like long car trips or something.
Anyway my whole point is that the owner who works in the baby room all day proceeds to tell me "Well, when you bring that baby back here we WILL be feeding her. I started all my babies on cereal at 2 weeks. So don't think you're going to bring her here and have her getting nothing but milk for 6 months. They NEED that cereal and that food."
Um, way to win over my confidence in you before I even bring you my baby. So now that I know you have absolutely no respect for me as a parent, you actually think I'm not lying through my teeth when I make plans with you to enroll my helpless soon-to-be newborn? And when I tell her that the AAP recommends EBF for 6 months, she goes "those doctors don't know anything." great, can I borrow that line when I tell you about how my baby isn't getting any shot either? 
Seriously, do people HEAR themselves????
kinda thing.I work at a preschool (which I have posted about before) and I'm hoping that I will not be working there by the time dd is born, but I haven't told them that, so as far as they know she will be coming to work with me and going in the infant room once she turns 6 weeks.
Probably a week ago I made the discovery that they don't believe in "spoiling" the babies. I discovered this because I happened to be back there while one of the little ones (12 weeks) was crying and I offered to grab him and was told that he was crying because he is "spoiled" and likes to be rocked to sleep. I ended up giving an impromptu informative speech on cortisol and stress in babies, lol.
so fast forward to today, my coworker had bought her dd this doll that requires some kind of "real" baby food and I was half-jokingly telling her that since my babies don't eat jar food, she could have the ones off my WIC checks for this doll. Which caused total outrage over the fact that I "starve" my babies by ONLY feeding them milk until 6 months or so.
fwiw ds actually started eating table foods before then, but we never used the jar stuff except in emergencies like long car trips or something.Anyway my whole point is that the owner who works in the baby room all day proceeds to tell me "Well, when you bring that baby back here we WILL be feeding her. I started all my babies on cereal at 2 weeks. So don't think you're going to bring her here and have her getting nothing but milk for 6 months. They NEED that cereal and that food."
Um, way to win over my confidence in you before I even bring you my baby. So now that I know you have absolutely no respect for me as a parent, you actually think I'm not lying through my teeth when I make plans with you to enroll my helpless soon-to-be newborn?
And when I tell her that the AAP recommends EBF for 6 months, she goes "those doctors don't know anything." great, can I borrow that line when I tell you about how my baby isn't getting any shot either? Seriously, do people HEAR themselves????
When I had my second child I had to use child care and she went for about 4 hours per day and there were several other babies her same age so she couldn't be held like she would at home. I could tell when she cried a lot because of her temperament when I picked her up each day and how red her eyes were. 
