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[quote=Anonymous]I moved from DC to CA in a similar situation and completely stressed out about this. Is so hard to manage!

My older child goes to daycare and those teachers aren't allowed to watch her outside school hours.

Friends in our neighborhood (with twins same age as DD) said we could drop our daughter off any hour. They have an au pair I offered to pay while our child was with her (so she'd have 3 children). She was willing for me to call her in her day off.

I also talked to my minister about my concerns - I don't think she understood how stressed I was because I was about 35 weeks pregnant when she handed me a list of parishioners (5 women) willing to be on call. I only knew two of them and my daughter didn't know any of them.

Ultimately, I hired a nanny who was between jobs. A woman posted that she was becoming a stay at home mom Feb 1st and didn't need nanny anymore BUT the nanny was pregnant (due in April) so wasn't looking for a new position until the summer. I was due Feb 13th and the nanny was happy for extra money. I interviewed her and introduced her to my 4 year old, but frankly I was desperate. My water broke Feb 7th at 9 pm. The nanny had a babysitting gig with her prior employer the next day, but the other woman knew my situation and the arrangement and knew the nanny might have to cancel on her. She was there that night, the next day, and then we gave her a choice of staying another night or going to her home. She chose to stay one more night. We paid $25 / hr during daytime and $15 / hr when DD was asleep. I think it worked out to somewhere between $600-650

The baby was born early Weds am and the nanny had a doctor's appointment Thurs am. She stayed with DD from Tues night to Thurs am when my DH took her to daycare. We went home Friday midday and, by then, a family friend who lives 4 hours away came to visit. My mother in law arrived Sunday.

Finally, we don't have much space - we offered the nanny our bed but she slept on an air mattress in the living room![/quote]

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