I am relocating my family from Boston to DC-area (looking for a place in Silver Spring) Oct. 1st. We're having trouble finding fulltime daycare for our six month old son. We're currently in a great, state accredited home daycare, but there don't seem to be many of those in Silver Spring or NW. I looked at carelulu and found some providers, but none are accredited. Has anyone used such a place? - we're getting desperate here.

thanks,

Thank you! Is her English good? Will she speak both English and Spanish to him or just Spanish?

Hi,
I'm relocating my family from Boston to DC on October 1st (new job at Georgetown U). Our son will be 7 months old and need full-time childcare. In Boston we were lucky to get a spot in a large in-home daycare right in our neighborhood. MA law is 1 provider for every 3 infants and our current daycare has 1.5. I'm a bit dismayed that DC allows 4 kids per provider, but we can't change that. I should also say that we pay $350/week.

We are having trouble finding something in DC/MD. I toured a very large chain daycare center while I was in DC last week and hated it - I don't like how the infants are separated from older kids and it felt very institutional. It was also much more than we are used to paying. I've searched care.com, carelulu, and the childcareconnections.osse.dc.gov site and I'm not finding much. I would appreciate any suggestions, even of bigger daycare centers that are affordable and a bit more homey in atmosphere.

Also, we would have loved for him to be in a bilingual daycare from the get-go, but we his parents only speak English as do all his current childcare providers. We don't want to throw him into a foreign language immersion situation amidst all the other transitions he'll be going through right now.

thank you