Is 4 months too young to send baby to daycare?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t send the baby at 4 months. If she must work, get a nanny. But she doesn’t have to work. The priority is all wrong here. Infants need a secure attachment with a constant warm caregiver. You can’t control the high staff turnover in daycare. Your baby will cry because that’s reality with 1 adult to several babies.

Look at the Quebec daycare study. Early start to care and long hours leads to behavioral and emotional issues.

Thanks I’ll look into this study. Also, see my previous post about her only working part time. Maybe a nanny would be a better solution. It might only be 15-20 hrs a week. I think in the end it might cost the same but the baby being at home could be better

OP, I hope you chose the nanny route as it is the best available option at your baby’s tender age for childcare.
Daycare is usually reserved for the parents who do not have the funds to afford a nanny. Having a nanny is the most expensive childcare option because it is the BEST option period.

Nope but I bet it makes you feel good about yourself to bash other families' choices.

It IS the best childcare option….that is why it is also the most pricey one.

This is basically fact - not understanding how it is bashing.

DP. It is opinion. There are basically no studies with large sample sizes and good statistical controls in this area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t send the baby at 4 months. If she must work, get a nanny. But she doesn’t have to work. The priority is all wrong here. Infants need a secure attachment with a constant warm caregiver. You can’t control the high staff turnover in daycare. Your baby will cry because that’s reality with 1 adult to several babies.

Look at the Quebec daycare study. Early start to care and long hours leads to behavioral and emotional issues.

Thanks I’ll look into this study. Also, see my previous post about her only working part time. Maybe a nanny would be a better solution. It might only be 15-20 hrs a week. I think in the end it might cost the same but the baby being at home could be better

OP, I hope you chose the nanny route as it is the best available option at your baby’s tender age for childcare.
Daycare is usually reserved for the parents who do not have the funds to afford a nanny. Having a nanny is the most expensive childcare option because it is the BEST option period.

Nope but I bet it makes you feel good about yourself to bash other families' choices.

It IS the best childcare option….that is why it is also the most pricey one.

This is basically fact - not understanding how it is bashing.

DP. It is opinion. There are basically no studies with large sample sizes and good statistical controls in this area.

PP is just like the parents who say you don’t pay for private school and private college you are poor or don’t love your kids.

[Anonymous]

It was 10 years ago but mine went at 12 weeks. They weren't the youngest in there. It was absolutely fine.

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Anonymous wrote:It was 10 years ago but mine went at 12 weeks. They weren't the youngest in there. It was absolutely fine.

+1. Our kid went at seven weeks. She's ten now and it was fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, there is something inherently worse in daycare option for babies and that is just a plain fact. Toddler or over 2 can go to daycare and yes some advantages in that, but for babies there are none. We are not comparing day cares and "bad' nannies here, we are assuming a great nanny since there is not point in hiring a bad one lol

Lots of people hire bad nannies. You are basically trusting an unsupervised stranger with a completely vulnerable baby.