Ok here is the situation....

Abby seems to have to have her clothes changed to her spare clothes at least twice a week. They will either tell me she had a big "BM" (thier term for poo), which meant that she blew out her diaper or the she got juice on her.
Now she has only blow out a diaper with me maybe 2-3 times. And for some strange reason she can seem to make it all day in her same clothes at home just fine. So I figure they are maybe not checking her diaper enough or not supervising her with her juice or letting another kid spill juice on her. She only gets a 1/2 a sippy of juice one a day.... oh and how does a SIPPY cup get enough juice on a child that she has to have her clothes changed anyhow?
Do you nocited the hint of sarcasim and ticked-off-ness in my tone here??

So I picked her up yesterday much later than usual so her normal teacher had already gone home. She had her clothes changed..AGAIN! And her log sheet didn't even say why. So I was ticked off... the last straw kind of thing and I very calmly explained the situation to one of the daycare administrators. he said he will get to the bottom of it.

So my question is..... how often does your child have to be changed into thier spare clothes? What do you think is going on?

Maybe she is sitting in her high chair, spitting the juice out of her mouth??? At this age, they tend to imitate their peers. Maybe she's drooling a lot and is soaked?

tony hardly ever comes home in his spare clothes. in fact you just reminded me i need to send some fall clothes in tomorrow or he'll be coming home in shorts next time. she only changes his clothes if he's had a blowout, i don't care if he's got stains all over him so i don't demand a change for that.

i think you're right, they're probably not checking her diaper often enough and she's wetting/soiling through. (i know the law here says they must be changed every two hours regardless). do you provide the diapers or do they? if they do maybe they are putting the wrong size on her? :dunno:

I know I usually end up picking my girls up in different clothes than they went in. But, my daycare usually tries to get the kids all clean and nicely dressed for the parents when we pick them up, but recently they've both had some runny BMs, so it may be getting on their clothes. Plus, they've moved up to the 1year old room and I know they get dirtier iat mealtime - no highchairs :lol:

Joe often has his pants/shorts changed because of PT accidents. Occasionally a diaper leaks so they have to change him, but not very often. And I don't think he's ever been changed because of a spill.

It sounds pretty weird to me that she gets changed so often - especially if they say it's spills from sippy cups.

Dennis

Maybe she is sitting in her high chair, spitting the juice out of her mouth??? At this age, they tend to imitate their peers. Maybe she's drooling a lot and is soaked?
I've never seen her spit the juice or anything else.... she'll blow rasberries with food but that's it. And it isn't drool because she really doesn't drool much and they wrote down that she "spilled juice"
She actually doesn't drink much juice because she still can't figure out how to pick it up high enough to get much juice unless you hold it for her.

(i know the law here says they must be changed every two hours regardless). do you provide the diapers or do they? if they do maybe they are putting the wrong size on her? :dunno:
I didn't know that! And... I provide the diapers... so she wears the same ones at home and it's a rare occasion when she poosplodes one.

Bianca has only had to use her spare clothes once and that was because they were painting and she didnt want the stain to "set". Sounds to me like they arent changing her enought. Maybe waiting for her to "stink up the place" before they bother checking. A good provider should be checking at a pretty good rate. I know ours checks before I pick her up, before and after naps, and before and after mealtimes, ususally that is plenty. And she has had some NASTY ones, but no "blowouts". :bighug: Sorry you are having to go thru this.

Matthew went through spurts where he'd come home with spare clothes a lot and then not for a while. It was usually was a baby baby or when he was in the toddler room.

Aiden came home in a different outfit one day. Well, when I went through his bag, the clothes he went in with were clean. I figured that someone didn't like the fact the pants he was wearing didn't have snaps in the crotch.

Are you getting a progress report as to when they are changing her diapers? This is definitely very perplexing... are the clothes soiled in anyway when you go to wash them? I would be rather angry about an increase in laundry as well.

Mandy

Alex only comes home in spare clothes if he has a blow out and that is VERY RARE. In fact, this summer it didn't happen once.

Do they send the clothes home with you to launder? Does it look like juice? You can tell if a blowout caused it. Maybe a teacher at daycare likes to play dress-up with Abby. :lol:

I'm glad the Admin is looking into it!

Do you send a sippy cup or do they use their own? I am wondering if maybe the top opened up or leaked? Or maybe they are giving her a cup w/o a top??
I am just trying to think of situations that we had when I worked in daycare.
I agree that its weird that she is charged so often (when A was in daycare he was changed so infrequently that when they did use the spare clothes, they were too small!!)

Believe it or not, under the age of one, they have to check them EVERY HOUR when they are awake! So she should NOT be sitting in a soiled diaper.

Jack is a very messy kid and he's only been changed into his spare clothes twice in the last 3 weeks. Once because the teacher was trying to teach him to pee standing up (didn't work :lol) and yesterday because they were out walking and Jack sat in a puddle.

Maya comes home in her spare clothes once or twice a week. Examining the dirty clothes usually is a good enough reason to understand why, but it's usually food and usually stuff that could be prevented if they put a bib on her at mealtimes. I don't know why they don't put a bib on her!

**DELURKING**

My Nicholas comes home in a spare set of clothes at least twice a week!!! DH doesn't think anything of it. He just says - oh he peed himself - well I get that - but why??? When we were interviewing daycares they specifically said that they change them every two hours! Why would he pee through somedays and not others!?!

And No, they never state on his log sheet why his clothes were changed - but his clothes always come home in a plastic bag! :furious:

Just to clarify something, I believe that daycare rules are different state to state. Michigan has its own set of rules and the rules are somewhat different depending on the type of daycare (i.e. group, home, center, etc.) So, they may not have to change diapers that much where Abby is.

It doesn't matter what the rules are - they should know if a baby/toddler keeps leaking that they aren't changing him/her often enough.

Dennis

Riley only comes home in her spare outfit a few times a month, and it's only for BM blowouts. Even then, it usually happens when they change her and a little of the poop gets on her clothes.

She wears a bib all day just like the other babies. And she usually has food stains on her since she feeds herself. They told us from the beginning not to put the "nice" clothes on your child since kids tend to get messy. But I think that coming home in the spare outfit more than twice a week is cause for alarm. Especially if it's been happening for awhile.

I hope you're able to figure out what's going wrong.

Lindsey is 19 months old and has been in full time daycare for over a year. I think that her clothes have been changed 2-3 times the entire time she has been there. As a matter of fact, I have to get fall clothes to my daycare...I always forget since we never use our back up clothing. By the way, she always comes home looking just fine!