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post #1 of 20
6/9/08 at 10:22am
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My son has gone to Kindercare day care on and off since he was 12 weeks old. When he was an infant, they never gave me any problems about breastmilk, not starting solids...very supportive of child led feeding. We re-enrolled him recently after having a private sitter, and in their handbook was a paragraph(can't find the handbook to quote) but it basically said that moms are free to breastfeed anywhere in the center, and a private area will be found if the mother chooses, that you can provide breastmilk for your child beyond the infant room...basically in their handbook was a nice little amount of pro-breastfeeding information. I thought that was nice especially as I have seen on this forum women having issues with breastfeeding their babies at daycare centers.
post #2 of 20
6/9/08 at 11:55am
That's really encouraging - is this a chain? (sorry, don't know much about daycare centers...)
post #3 of 20
6/9/08 at 2:23pm
Yes, it's a chain. I'm so glad that you've had positive experiences with them. The ones in our area leave much to be desired and they don't always treat their employees very well. I think it's definitely dependent upon the center, but at least with corporate speak like that it should be helpful at some of the centers of theirs that aren't quite so nice.

As a side note...Kindercare (Knowledge Learning Corporation is their parent company) won't accept cloth diapers, but will if you have a doctor's note.
post #4 of 20
6/9/08 at 3:06pm
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yes they have always been wonderful with our son...though pricey...but he has always had few kids in his class(5 babies w/ 2 teachers in infant, now 6 babies/1 teacher in toddler) and have always been really wonderful. We left for about 7-8 months while dad stayed at home and also while we had a private sitter and each time we came back everyone remembered us...I think it definately depends on the center but we love the teachers and staff at this one!!
post #5 of 20
6/9/08 at 6:52pm
Wow! That's great!
post #6 of 20
6/10/08 at 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by pampered_mom View Post
As a side note...Kindercare (Knowledge Learning Corporation is their parent company) won't accept cloth diapers, but will if you have a doctor's note.
That's just about every child care center. If they can't wisk away the diaper, and wrap it in plastic, they feel it's unsanitary.
post #7 of 20
6/10/08 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by ewp11100 View Post
That's just about every child care center. If they can't wisk away the diaper, and wrap it in plastic, they feel it's unsanitary.
I never had problems. DD was in cloth training pants at the center at the university where she went my last semester of college (she was 2 1/2-3), and they just chunked them in a plastic grocery bag, same as they did wet/soiled clothes which were sent home for all the kids sometimes. The in-home provider she had before that did the same thing with her diapers.

One of these days I'd like to do child care, and it'll be a crunchy/AP-friendly child care!
post #8 of 20
6/10/08 at 10:09pm
i went to kindercare as a kid. i hated it. but good for them for supporting breastfeeding and stuff
post #9 of 20
6/11/08 at 12:31am
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Originally Posted by ewp11100 View Post
That's just about every child care center. If they can't wisk away the diaper, and wrap it in plastic, they feel it's unsanitary.
that comes across rather offensive...I'm a childcare provider and do not feel cloth diapers are "unsanitary" (my ds wears cloth at home); however, depending on licensing rules/where you are it may just not be allowed at the center and has nothing to do with the teacher's feelings...
post #10 of 20
6/11/08 at 10:46pm
My DD goes to a Kindercare as well, and I agree about the support I've seen for breatfeeding. I used to stop by everyday at lunch to nurse her and the teachers were always wonderful about it.
post #11 of 20
6/12/08 at 5:31pm
I don't have a whole lot of respect for that company because of how they treated me as an employee, but that is good to hear. I didn't work with the infants there and I don't think any of them were breastfed at our center but I'm glad their policy is supportive of it.
post #12 of 20
6/12/08 at 5:48pm
That's great to hear!

I considered using them at one point, but unfortunately they said they couldn't handle a peanut allergic child. Actually their exact words were, "we will try not to feed him peanuts" which was somewhat disturbing, given his high level of allergy.
post #13 of 20
6/12/08 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by pampered_mom View Post
Yes, it's a chain. I'm so glad that you've had positive experiences with them. The ones in our area leave much to be desired and they don't always treat their employees very well. I think it's definitely dependent upon the center, but at least with corporate speak like that it should be helpful at some of the centers of theirs that aren't quite so nice.

As a side note...Kindercare (Knowledge Learning Corporation is their parent company) won't accept cloth diapers, but will if you have a doctor's note.
I worked at one of their centers in TX and man did I ever experience that. Both the awful treatment of its employees (me and others) and the support of bfing moms.
post #14 of 20
6/12/08 at 10:09pm
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Originally Posted by MamaChicken View Post
My DD goes to a Kindercare as well, and I agree about the support I've seen for breatfeeding. I used to stop by everyday at lunch to nurse her and the teachers were always wonderful about it.
Yes I used to always BF my son in the infant room before I left, it made the transition a lot better, sometimes he'd fall asleep Both of his teachers were supportive of breastfeeding.
post #15 of 20
6/13/08 at 2:51pm
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Originally Posted by ~Em~ View Post
That's great to hear!

I considered using them at one point, but unfortunately they said they couldn't handle a peanut allergic child. Actually their exact words were, "we will try not to feed him peanuts" which was somewhat disturbing, given his high level of allergy.
That's really strange...peanuts were not allowed in the building, period, where I worked. I thought that was for the whole company. "We will try not to feed him peanuts." That's scary!
post #16 of 20
6/13/08 at 5:42pm
Hrm...yeah, I guess they're bf supportive to clients but as a director...well, they left lots to be desired. It's a high-pressure job and one of the benefits is that I had dd right there and could quickly nurse her when she needed to eat. I usually brought a few extra bottles of ebm in case I was busy when she was hungry. It worked out okay until my district manager encouraged me to start ffing to make it seem like I wasn't needed in the infant room all the time and to make it easier for me to leave dd for overnights to go to trainings. I don't want to go into how little I was actually in the infant room but I felt it was inappropriate for her to say anything.
post #17 of 20
6/13/08 at 10:44pm
We had ds in Kindercare briefly when I first went back to work. (Dh had trust issues with the idea of an unsupervised nanny, but thankfully after a few months of the daycare experience he became more open to switching, and we hired the wonderful caregiver who has now been with us 3 years). Anyway, our center was also supportive of breastfeeding. I stopped by whenever I could to nurse him at lunch, and often nursed him at pickup - always openly in the infant room glider, with no problems from anyone. They kept his bottles of BM in the regular fridge and didn't have any "OMG, its a bodily fluid!" reactions.

On the other hand, they had terrible turnover problems and the revolving door of caregivers was one of the things that finally made dh willing to consider a nanny instead. I completely believe that they were not doing right by their employees, or they would have had better retention.
post #18 of 20
6/14/08 at 5:18pm
My dad worked for KLC for quite a few years and I can confirm that they will take cloth diapers with a doctor's note.
post #19 of 20
6/15/08 at 3:16pm
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Originally Posted by pampered_mom View Post
As a side note...Kindercare (Knowledge Learning Corporation is their parent company) won't accept cloth diapers, but will if you have a doctor's note.
I have my daughter at a different KLC center and they have no issues with our cloth diapers. They did require me to bring in a lidded/closed container instead of a wetbag, but that's not a big deal. They do wrap poopy diapers in a separate plastic bag, but they do the same with clothes that get leaked on.

Our center is pretty breastfeeding/milk-friendly. Like a PP, I visit at lunch and nurse on the glider in the middle of the infant room. It doesn't seem to be a big deal. They do have separate shelves in the fridge for breastmilk and for formula, but it's not like "your gross bodily fluid has to be quarantined" - maybe they have different warming procedures, I don't know, they just let me know matter-of-factly which shelf to use. When I was there the other day, I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the 11 month olds is still getting breastmilk. A lot of people in this area seem to assume that even if you start out breastfeeding, you'll stop after a few months.
post #20 of 20
6/15/08 at 3:53pm
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Originally Posted by jessica_lizette View Post
That's really strange...peanuts were not allowed in the building, period, where I worked. I thought that was for the whole company. "We will try not to feed him peanuts." That's scary!
I have had a very difficult time finding peanut-free childcare in this area, unfortunately. Some places outright said they did not want the liability.
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