My 19.5 month old dd attends a wonderful childcare center two days a week. They send out a letter to parents each week. I was reading it this weekend and one of the activities they mentioned doing with the children was role-playing. They said they were wearing firefighter hats and that they were wrapping up the babies and feeding them. I immediately got a visual of a group of one-year-olds sticking bottles into the mouths of their babies at the suggestion of their caregivers. 
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So, I've been thinking about it for a few days. What should I do? Should I go to our conference next week armed with scientific articles? Should I write a letter?
Today when I went to pick dd up her head teacher was alone in the classroom because everyone else was playing outside. I decided to bring up my discomfort with the baby bottle thing. She said, "Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I totally agree with you. You know, sometimes you just do what you do and don't remember to think outside the box. I don't think we can have the children lifting up their shirts to nurse the babies, but I am fine with taking the bottles out of the equation." As she was talking to me she walked over and took the baby bottles out of the cupboard and put them away. They aren't going to use them anymore.
We went on to have a great conversation about breastfeeding and the AAP and WHO recommendations about breastfeeding.
She is awesome! I still can't get over how well it went.
P.S. Dd often wants to nurse as soon as I pick her up, so I have plopped down and nursed her right in the middle of the day care a number of times...I was always thinking that they might tell me to do it somewhere else, but they never did.
:So, I've been thinking about it for a few days. What should I do? Should I go to our conference next week armed with scientific articles? Should I write a letter?
Today when I went to pick dd up her head teacher was alone in the classroom because everyone else was playing outside. I decided to bring up my discomfort with the baby bottle thing. She said, "Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I totally agree with you. You know, sometimes you just do what you do and don't remember to think outside the box. I don't think we can have the children lifting up their shirts to nurse the babies, but I am fine with taking the bottles out of the equation." As she was talking to me she walked over and took the baby bottles out of the cupboard and put them away. They aren't going to use them anymore.
We went on to have a great conversation about breastfeeding and the AAP and WHO recommendations about breastfeeding.
She is awesome! I still can't get over how well it went.
P.S. Dd often wants to nurse as soon as I pick her up, so I have plopped down and nursed her right in the middle of the day care a number of times...I was always thinking that they might tell me to do it somewhere else, but they never did.
