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formula advertising, or not?
We did a lot of research into nurseries in the city and went to visit 6 of them. Only one provided nappies and formula (probably the one you are talking about as it was the only national company). Mind you they were the only ones that made the point they were happy to use ebm although a couple of otheres mentioned it in their literature. All of them apart from the ond ds is at provide food, although they do provide snacks. Judging by his appetite since he has started crawling I think we are getting our moneys worth there. If it is the one I think you are talking about we decided not to send him there as the atmosphere was very corporate and clinical and we didn't really see it as a selling point to have dostevsky quotes on the wall and French lessons at 3yrs. 2 months down the line we are happy we have chosen the best one in the area even though it is the only one where we have to provide the food. This is more inconvient for us than most as we only eat veggie food and as ds will only eat 2 flavours of Hipp Organic and won't eat much table food yet, we have to do a lot of extra cooking. Sorry, I've gone off on a tangent here, but in asnwer to your question, I don't think it is normal for nurseries in the area to profvide forumla. This company in question is one of the more expensive ones but not the top. The worst one we saw was one where the babies slept in a damp room in old SilverCross prams that were stored outside in a partically covered bike rack when not being used. Appalling - and they were the most expensive one we saw. I feel sorry for those babies. bit of a late reply, but I think you've guessed right, it was kidsunlimited, but I think they run more than one nursery in town, but few of them are open access, I had the choice of one of their nurseries or finding something else very inconvenient given where I lived and where I worked, we only went to nursery at all, because when I upped my hours the childminders couldn't keep up! So we didn't really choose, it was more can we deal with this, we thought the answer was yes and it turned out to be no. Anne |
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formula advertising, or not?
Better to provide something
than have a malnourished baby because mom is trying to stretch formula until the next paycheck, IMO. absolutely, but in this case we are not talking poverty situations, the nursery company in question has fees per week that a higher in pounds than the one you are talking about in dollars, so no one on a low income would be able to get there kids in there, plus if you are on a low income you get free formula anyway. Anne |
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formula advertising, or not?
All were quite happy to feed with EBM, they just provided formula as a service. All 3 also had fees on a sliding scale, and their clientele is mixed low-income to middle-income. So the provisions are partly to assist low income families (tho this stuff is provided to all). Cost for those who don't meet the cut-off for low income is $110-130/week, not sure how low they go on their sliding scale. it's useful for me to find out this kind of info, in the Uk whilst we are on one income anything more than an afternoon with a childminder is too much for us, but this sounds promising for when we move to the US. I'm stretching out the time I can manage the children for, but I'm almost certain I'll still need help for another 6 months - 1 year and knowing that nursery might actually be affordable is helpful. Anne |
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