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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm thinking about this a little. We've been happy with our center for four years but have a baby starting whenever everyone goes back. I'm wondering if we should look for a nanny share instead. The idea of a worse spike in the winter when flu season starts is scary with a baby in day care. The problem is we can't really afford a nanny share, or we'd have one now - it would be a stretch and for how long? [/quote]

So you would have 2 in daycare at once? We are in the same boat (but presumably closer in age if yours are 4 years apart) and are contemplating doing a nanny for both VA daycare for both (and a nanny would be more expensive and come with other tradeoffs).   Would you be sending the older one to daycare and then doing a nanny for the youngest? We were contesting that but figured that if the older one was exposed then we were all doomed anyway so it was either put both in daycare or neither. We prefer daycare but could stretch to afford a nanny. [/quote]

This is sort of the rub. The older one is happier in the group care environment than i think he would be with a nanny for the last few months before K in fall 2020, and presumably a nanny share for two kids with a big age gap would be hard to find, but we definitely can't afford either our own nanny or nanny share + day care. So I don't have a good plan, the timing is rough, but it could change in September too.[/quote]

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