So, we already have a bit of a struggle now with childcare as it is. My partner works part time 2 days a week, and we send both kids to ninkagai daycare on the days she works, but the 一時預かりsystem we have to use (because daycare didn’t have room for a full-time spot) is basically a free-for-all fighting over other 一時預かり spots with other parents (it’s a really terrible new system where you have to use this online application) and there are several days next month we couldn’t even secure childcare on the days she works. Particularly, Mondays are the days that seem to be in the most demand for some reason.
Anyhow, today (a Monday) was fortunately a day we were successful in securing them a spot at daycare and my partner planned to work. After taking their temperature at home just a half hour before taking them (we have to take it in order to report it in the renrakucho) they were 36.0 and 36.7. Nothing seemed strange, they both slept and ate breakfast well. However, immediately after dropping them (only 20 min after drop off) my partner is contacted to pick them up because they both have a fever of exactly 37.5. So, my partner calls in to work and picks them up. Pays the full price for the daycare day as well. I’m assuming that if they are going to send the kids home, they must have checked a few times to ensure the temperature reading wasn’t wrong. I hope so at least. I was bracing myself to come home to a full sick house.
After she got home, though, they seemed very energetic and my partner took their temperature again, one was a tad high but not a fever (37.1), and the other – the one which we measured at 36.0 in the morning- was 36.6.
Anyhow, the 37.1 one does have a slightly runny nose (other is completely fine), and if they were concerned about him feeling not well, that itself is grounds enough to ask for early pick-up in my book. But, I guess I’m just a bit shocked that such an unfortunate coincidence happened, with both of them, such a spike in body temperature at a particular time. What doesn’t feel right isn’t so much the shogainai situation of them being sick, but the communication from the daycare.
Anyhow, we originally liked this daycare because our older went to it for a year as full-timer for one year last year, but due to all of the changes in April (a lot more 0-aged babies mixed in when they weren’t allowed before, communication going digital, and the terrible online 一時預かり system starting, etc. and not being able to secure a full time spot anymore) we’ve already started to look at other options. I like the teachers there and my kids seem to love it, but I just can’t shake the feeling that communication has gone downhill.
Anyone else have this experience or something similar? Maybe I’m overthinking it.
by irishtwinsons