“I just want to hold a baby”

I work primarily in the infant room at my center, I’m a float but one of the lead teachers ~kind of~ quit, so I’ve been filling in for her shifts. There’s a lot more I could say, but I’ll leave it at that.

While I wasn’t working in infants for a couple weeks, floats kept coming in to help out and saying “I just wanted to hold a baby, that’s why I volunteered to come in”. It is SO frustrating. Especially when there is a lot to get done, so the lead is practically running the room by herself while the float sits there and holds a baby.

I’ve experienced this myself, one of the floats tried to rock a 13 month old to sleep, AFTER we told her not to. I just wish more people understood how difficult it can be working in the infant room.

So many floats tell me that they get jealous of me because I’m always in infants and I get to hold babies all day. I promise you I don’t!! Does anyone else relate to this ??