Child care threw out my MCN!

[L J]

DD goes to child care 2 days a week. She’s been at this centre 3 weeks, so granted not very long. The babies room has 2 full time staff, one in on holidays this week and one had an RDO today. This should have rung alarm bells for me when I signed her in this morning I guess.

I sent her in a Bumgenius pocket this morning , and she has 5 Magicalls in her bag. She has a Baby Beehinds wet bag. When DH picked her up and brought her home, I found only 1 Magicall in the wet bag, 1 was on her and 3 clean dry ones were in her bag – she was there 8am-5pm.

No Bumgenius pocket.

DH went back to the centre while I did dinner (he’d collected her) – they said “oh sorry, the relieving staff member must have binned her nappy”. They did go through the bin in front of DH but it must have been emptied during the day.

I’m in tears. I’m gutted. I am trying so hard to do the best for my child and one of my favourite nappies is gone, binned, it was only 3 mths old too. When she started they were ok about cloth, the full timer (the one on RDO today) said cloth wasn’t a problem, especially once I showed her.

Anyone else has this experience? I need to calm down I guess….

I’m thinking of typing up a polite A4 note to leave in her bag every day saying she’s in reusable nappies, all nappies to be put in the wet bag and sent home, not to be disposed of. Asking that they change her each time they check nappies (I know they routinely check nappies 4 times a day for all babies in the room), even if the nappy feels relatively dry.

Any thoughts? Other option is to give up on sending MCN’s to child care and just send Aldi sposies, but I really don’t want to.

Lou

[Pobie]

I would be asking them to pay for it. Its clearly not a disposable nappy!

[MGlatte]

How rude! I agree with PP - ask them to pay for it. I'd keep sending the MCN's, but the more "workhorse" ones. Not favourites.

[berniebabe]

OMG How stupid of them. I honestly dont understand why she would have tossed it. If she wasn't sure she should have put it in a bag just incase.

[Arimeh]

I send BumG's with my kids to daycare too. I'd leave a note that clearly states what a MCN is - and that they are NOT disposable.

And I'd talk to the Director of the centre and ask them to reimburse you for the cost of a BumG as well. You have discussed it previously with them, and if they said it would be ok - and then do this - then they have failed in their end of the deal!!

I'd definitely be getting a replacement one paid for by them. That'd certainly teach them a lesson.. hehe

[Pheebs]

Oh how awful! Id be kicking a royal stink!

[Kitikova]

That's very slack and not appropriate at all. Do they just throw out the shorts and undies of older kids who have accidents? It's the same thing really.

I would be writing them a letter and politely explain how much reusable nappies cost, and requesting given they admitted to it being thrown in the bin that they reimburse you the cost.

I'm about to start the daycare thing next week. DS has recently TT though so don't have to send nappies, but there was a whole paragraph in the handbook about using cloth and what they need you to send etc. They actually request a nappy bucket though rather than a wetbag. I'm not sure why - but I guess it would be harder to miss if you have a bucket sitting there!

Definitely follow up and document the incident in writing to them, letting them know that to you it isn't just a trivial 'oops' situation. I'm sure they'd prefer to find a way to resolve the matter than to have your silently fuming over it until you explode!

[tashalou]

I totally agree you shouls ask for a replacement! I think it would be fairly obious it wasn't a disposable!!

[Hartz]

If it wasn't in the bin maybe someone took it, BG aren't cheap these days!! Definitely ask for a replacement!

[Tiffany]

OMG! I can't belive someone would put it in the bin! What was she thinking - 'this is pretty fancy disposable?!!' I'd definately be asking for a replacement!!