ok, here's the update on the cc situation. We're withdrawing her. (posted this on my mummy thread too...)
I think Louisa shd be able to adapt quickly...but anyway, hb decided to withdraw her and put her back in when she's older. She had nightmares every night. She screams "no! no! outside! outside! Go there! Door...open! mummy! Daddy! bao bao!..." And when at home, shd won't go inside the room. Go in, she will want to go out and stay out, hanging on to me. And now, if she wants to say, do something or walk to a particular spot and we dun let her (coz going off elsewhere, she needs to change diaper etc...), she will throw a fit "no no no no no (keeps shaking head maciam on Esctacy), go down go down. outside outside..." [Dunno if it's triggered by the trauma from the school].
That's one of the factors hb considered before making the decision. The other trigger points were:-
(1) During the 3 days there, Louisa didn't eat at all (didn't eat breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea). And she didn't drink much water (except her FM feed at abt 12.30pm - 1pm). and she didn't sleep a wink at all. I'd think it's normal lah, afterall, she was so excited abt new surroundings. But he felt that the teachers didn't do anything to try to ensure she gets some food or water. Why didn't they do anything? Coz they were so busy attending to the other crying kids. It happened that the day he saw all that, Louisa's teacher was on MC. And the mother tongue teacher was the one handling everything, and basically, they can't cope.
That same day happened to be the day a few kids were vomitting. At first I thought they cried till they vomitted. But subsequently we found out that these kids were down with stomach flu. Without much food, water & rest, Louisa also caught the stomach flu. As of Sunday, the centre has 19 kids with confirmed cases of stomach flu, 3 teachers with stomach flu and 1 HFMD. If it's the common flu, we're still ok, coz which kid dun fall sick? But stomach flu...it kinda got to us.
(2) We're not quite sure how stomach flu spreads, but their std of hygiene is something that we're not that comfy with (ok, maybe we high std lah...). That day her main teacher was on MC, we happened to witness this boy pee on the floor (it was in the toilet, but still...), but no teacher noticed it, and another baby/toddler, walked on that boy's pee, fell, butt landed on the pee (not a big puddle lah...small puddle. the 1st boy was probably finishing his pee-ing when his teacher removed his diaper). The teacher just picked up the other baby and continued to put on that kid's diaper, not realising what has happened.
(3) We noticed that after their nap time, during the diapering time, unless the kid poops, the teachers don't rinse off their butts. Just remove old diaper and put on new diaper. I'm not sure if other CCs do that too, but hey, even adults (ladies) go restroom, we also wipe ourselves right? But, admittedly, it is not easy to have to coordinate a few crying kids, and change their diapers at the same time. Kids will cry after their nap, coz some are still sleepy...
(4) Other times, we see the kids so tired and sleepy, that they just sprawled on the big bathroom mat to sleep (those kind you place outside your bathroom to dry your feet), and everyone had to walk around them.
I guess some of these things can't be helped lah...it's not easy handling so many kids at the same time. But we felt that the teachers can't cope lorh. So decided to wait till Louisa's body is stronger/tougher, such that she is less susceptible (hopefully) to germs etc, and she is more independent. So now we have to take the steps to help her be more independent and by the time she goes back to school (after 2 yo), hopefully it will be easier for her. Hehs..
