How to not feel bad about putting an infant in daycare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could you delay a few more months or find a nanny share for a few months until baby is a bit older and you feel better about it?

+1. Always listen to your gut.

[Anonymous]

No suggestions from me. I failed at it and eventually became a sahm. It is very difficult.

But, I think working moms should feel good about contributing to the family finances that will pay for the kid's college and bright future. Furthermore, it is a great insurance for adverse circumstances in life. Money is a source of great strength and gives us flexibility.

I am sorry that American corporate policy does not allow for 6 month or more of paid maternity leave and flexible work schedule and location.

[Anonymous]

Choose daycare. We sent our 5 months baby to a local daycare and is thriving! Now is starting to crawl at 7 months old. He's a happy boy.

The first 2 weeks he got sick but that is normal. After that he was fine. Kids needs to be expose to germs to build a good immune system. It will happen often in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I feel so sorry for you and your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I feel so sorry for you and your child.

Not everyone is the same. Your own daughter might be fed up with you later on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I feel so sorry for you and your child.

Let's compare.

1. PP is honest that taking care of a newborn is hard, and placed their baby in licensed care when they went back to work.
2. You bash people you don't know online for no apparent reason

PP sounds like a much better person and parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I feel so sorry for you and your child.

Let's compare.

1. PP is honest that taking care of a newborn is hard, and placed their baby in licensed care when they went back to work.
2. You bash people you don't know online for no apparent reason

PP sounds like a much better person and parent.

Nah! PP should have been infertile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I feel so sorry for you and your child.

Let's compare.

1. PP is honest that taking care of a newborn is hard, and placed their baby in licensed care when they went back to work.
2. You bash people you don't know online for no apparent reason

PP sounds like a much better person and parent.

Nah! PP should have been infertile.

JFC who spends their time posting garbage like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are “wealthy” and used a center from 4 months old. Zero regrets - our child absolutely thrived there. I worked from home and felt that having a nanny in my work space would make life more difficult - plus we felt daycare had better redundancy against sick providers, etc. The kid sick days were hard that year but we made very close friends with our cohort of preschool parents. There are lots of solutions that can work OP!

If you were truly wealthy you wouldn’t have to work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this sentiment at all. Who wouldn’t want a break from an infant? I nearly lost my mind the first two months.

I don’t understand how you don’t understand that different people have different levels of tolerance. I never needed a full days worth of break for my infant. But my best friend couldn’t wait to go back to work! People are just different and it’s OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nah. Nobody wants spoiled children. They are usually the biters.
Biters stays on the highchair most of the day. It's a phase, a very spoiled phase thanks to idiot parents who keeps spoiling their bratty kids

They just ask biters at most daycares to leave permanently. Most of them have a waitlist so they don’t have to put up with biters.