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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just prepare for a couple of things. DC has the most expensive childcare in the country. Also, the bigger corporate daycare centers often have a one year wait list. [b] In home day care in VA is notoriously unregulated (as in there seems to. E a child death every year).[/b] A lot of people in DC use nanny shares. Once your child turns three they are eligible for free all day preschool if you live in DC[/quote]

Don't scare the poor woman with this nonsense.  Plenty of people find and use licensed in-home daycares in Virginia.  They have state inspections about twice per year and all of the results are posted online.  We loved our in-home care provider who gave our child a lot more snuggles than our second child got at the corporate center as a baby.  [/quote]

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And yet every year there is another incident in the news about how poorly regulated on home centers are in VA and there is at least one death for the last several years. In home centers have no checks and balances, you have no idea who might end up staying there or passing through.  At least in my home I know who lives there, if its safe etc.  Either go corporate or nanny share.[/quote]

Stop scaring the poor woman. my baby fell off the bed the other day while I went to turn off a light. my son broke his arm while running around our carpeted family room while DH was sitting on the couch. My friend's son needed stitches while in the care of bright horizons. My other friend's daughter needed stitches and lost 2 teeth while my SAHM took her daughter to the playground. Other SAHM's son broke his arm while playing on a cozy coupe. I can go on an on. accidents happen.[/quote]

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