Is this normal? | Imamother

dare2dream

Thu, Sep 13 2012, 2:31 pm

When my husband picks up my 3 month old from the babysitter each day, there are 2 dirty bottles in my baby's diapar bag. I don't understand why my babysitter can't wash out his bottles...she only has 3 other kids in the group. I don't know if I should say anything to her since maybe this is the norm & I don't want her to be upset at me for asking her to wash out his bottles after his feedings. Can anyone tell me if their babysitters send their kids home with dirty or clean bottles?

checkbefore

Thu, Sep 13 2012, 2:54 pm

I don't think the babysitter needs to wash them.

yo'ma

Thu, Sep 13 2012, 2:58 pm

The baby should be clean, not the bottles. That is as long as you send enough bottles. If you don't send enough ready made or clean for how many your baby needs, hopefully she cleans it before filling it up again. Afterwards, no, she doesn't have to clean it.

observer

Thu, Sep 20 2012, 9:57 pm

my babysitters never cleaned the bottles. not part of their job

MaBelleVie

Thu, Sep 20 2012, 10:02 pm

If I were watching 4 infants, I sure as heck wouldn't be sitting there scrubbing 2 bottles for each of them. Do you really want her to leave the kids to wash out bottles? My nanny (in home) is obviously expected to wash the baby's bottles, but she does it either when the baby is napping or once I get home. Babies need constant supervision.

LiLIsraeli

Thu, Sep 20 2012, 11:45 pm

Agree! At first it bothered me that she didn't wash out the bottles, but after a while I realized that to wash out the bottles, she needs to go into another room and leave the babies alone, so it was much safer to leave the bottles unwashed. BH this is your only concern about the babysitter!

Mom2Levi

Wed, Nov 28 2012, 11:32 pm

I send my bottles pre-filled with boiled water, and I actually prefer that they are not cleaned. This way, I get a sense of how much they drank. (It isn't always clearly communicated how much the baby ate at each feeding and the babysitter doesn't always remember.)

IMHopinion

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 12:09 am

I've had sitters who did, or didn't.
Personally, I think they should make the effort, otherwise the bottle stinks afew hours later.
Bt I can see why people say it's not part of the job.

the world's best mom

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 6:33 am

Only 3 other kids in the group? What's "only" 3 other kids? I can hardly manage to wash my dishes with one baby in the house all day- if I had 4 babies, I wouldn't even try and I'd get help with the babies too.

imasinger

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 6:45 am

Must be one of those things that depends where you live. The bottles were not attended to at all? I have always, over 20 years, 4 different OOT states, and numerous providers, seen bottles sent home rinsed out but not scrubbed.

ray family

Thu, Nov 29 2012, 9:29 am

I babysit at home.
I don't necessarily have time to wash all the kids bottles.
I do rinse them out so that the milk doesn't spoil while it's sitting there all day

marineparkimma

Mon, Jan 14 2013, 1:36 pm

I run an infant care center in Marine Park that is licensed by DOH/OCFS. My child care providers take meticulous notes ("Daily Doings") of what each baby does every hour in our structured care and follow a strict guideline for clean bottles, 10 step diaper-changing method, and strict adherence to daily sanitizing, etc. Rules are rules and its safer for everybody involved - babies are happy, mommies are happy and everyone and everything is spanking clean!