Infant Program

Our program for infants sets its pace around the needs and unique differences of each child. Our infants have a primary caregiver that centers her day on the schedules of those for whom she cares. This care while meeting basic needs for food; diapering and adequate rest goes beyond that. The keen observer plans and enhances the interactions and activities which indicate the infant’s behavior.

Routines are the curriculum for an infant’s day. Every moment of a young child’s day should offer opportunities for learning. The skilled teacher catches those moments and helps each baby establish trust, discover and feel good about himself, tackle a motor task, realize the power of language, and begin to understand this strange new world from many angles. An infant teacher, with the education and understanding of early childhood development, knows that rich verbal interactions with children help them to understand that language is a tool for identifying and expressing their needs, ideas, and feelings in late life. As a trained adult caregiver, the teacher views the environment from the child’s eye and creates a cozy, inviting, and stimulating place for infants.

In an effort to help reduce your baby’s risk of crib death; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) infants twelve months of age or less will be placed on his/her back when sleeping unless there is a signed sleep position medical waiver on file which will be posted on the infant crib. Sleeping infants will be monitored frequently by the staff especially during the first four weeks that an infant is placed in child care. Steps will be taken: avoiding excessive bedding, over dressing or wrapping of the infants, to keep babies at a comfortable resting temperature. The room temperature will be kept between 68-72 degrees. To ensure that infants are kept safe, infant’s heads will not be covered with blanket or bedding and cribs will not be covered with blankets or bedding unless they are tucked in at the foot of the crib along the sides of the mattress, no loose bedding or pillows, bumper pads may/will be used in cribs. Toys and stuff animals will be removed from cribs when infants are sleeping. Only one infant will be in a crib at a time unless the center is evacuating infants in an emergency. All parents/guardians of infants enrolled in the infant program will receive a copy of the Safe Sleep Infant Policy and will be asked to sign a copy indicating that they have been notified and have read a copy of the policy. To ensure that the staff is knowledgeable of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the staff will be required to attend in-service training relating to the SID’S and to read and periodically review the Safe Sleep Infant Policy of the center.

Feel free to contact us at 980-330-3011 if you have any clarifications about this program. We would be happy to speak with you.