My child starting going to this daycare when she was around 6 months old (she had been in daycare in Illinois starting at 3 months - and we loved that place). She is currently 13 months old, so I can speak to both the infant 1 room and infant 2 room (which is also a toddler transition room).
My child feels very loved by her teachers, and that is the most comforting thing for my husband and I. They play with her and sing and dance with her. As a first time mom, I'm very involved in her daily life and routine, and I always make sure to ask about her day when I pick her up. Her teachers are kind and responsive and have a good handle on all of the kids in the room.
I feel the need to respond to a few of the prior reviews.
For one, I never feel like a $$ to anyone in this center. This daycare is definitely one of the cheaper options in the area, so if they wanted to only make money off of you, they are doing a bad job at it. They could raise their rates by hundreds more each month and still be in the middle of the boat.
At drop-off and pick-up, you might find the infants in the same room, but there are always the appropriate number of teachers in the room to look after the children.
I never saw shoes worn in the infant 1 room - and I'm very particular about this (again - first-time mom). Staff and parents take their shoes off or put slippers on. Shoes can be worn in the infant 2 room since most of the kids are walking and it's a toddler transition room as well.
Kids get sick at daycare. Workers get sick at daycare. From the kids most likely! It ends up benefiting children to be exposed to these germs - they'll have perfect attendance in kindergarten!
I've never experienced anyone "forgetting" to feed my child. In the Infant 1 room, children get fed based on need (not a schedule). In Infant 2, the kids eat all together at set times, which helps them transition to the toddler room (and for life in general).
Cubbies for both rooms have always been fine. Temperatures in the room always fine.
As far as curriculum goes for Infant 1... that room is designed for INFANTS! What do you want to do with (at most) 9 month olds? They have plenty of toys, and let's face it, everything is entertainment to them. Including the teachers - my child belly laughs by just playing games and interacting with them. Which is the best kind of learning for her at this age. Again, I ask the teachers about my daughter's day on a daily basis, and I love to hear that they did arts & crafts or went for a walk, etc., and I would like to hear that more often. But that's for me. Not necessarily for her. In Infant 2 room, they do a lot more with the kids in terms of curriculum.
I exclusively breastfed my daughter for her first year, and I'm VERY particular about her breast milk bottles (anyone who made it a year pumping at work - 2 TIMES A DAY - knows what I'm talking about). I label my bottles at home (before I bring them to daycare) and I've never had a problem with them. If anything, the teachers follow the rules very closely, so sometimes, if my daughter didn't finish all of her bottle, they toss the milk (according to the rules). Which makes me cry but I understand why the teachers did it. When the kids get older, they do hold their own bottles to feed themselves. That's a good thing!
I have also gone in to nurse her on occasion, so I see what happens on a random day at a random time. I've never seen any staff acting in any way that would be unclean, including washing their hands or around meal time or bottles.
I don't know about the violation of kids sleeping in seats on the ground... but babies fall asleep in lots of places... including cribs, swings, etc.
I looked at yelp reviews for daycares too, so there should be more of them so we can all make an educated decision on where to send our babies when they are not with us! read more