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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but make sure you really want day care, a nanny share is about the same and has many benefits over daycare. [/quote]

Opinions vary. I really preferred a daycare center.[/quote]

For your infant? Really? I did daycare for my first to start and it was awful. So many illnesses. We quickly switched to a home day care that only had 6 kids. It was so much better but the baby was literally sick every 1-3 weeks. With our second we did a nanny from the get go and it is so much better. Wish I had never put my first in daycare to be honest. So institutional. So impersonal. So unclean. I can still smell the stinky diapers, see the sad baby faces stuck in swings and chairs while the overwhelmed caregivers gave out bottles and diapered kids like overwhelmed robots (this was a 1:3 ratio, mind) and attempted to log everything in a stupid app. I can still hear the crying, and those hacking coughs. This was a top rated center (we toured many) but the reality is just awful. I felt like the worst parent in the world leaving my kid there with all those sad, crying babies. Most daycare parents won’t admit this but it’s true. Infant daycare is almost categorically horrible. I’ll say it. Everyone will argue because they don’t want to believe it but it’s true. Infants need primary attachments to a loving caregiver in a safe and calm environment, and you just don’t get that in an institutional
Setting like daycare. They don’t need the socialization until they are older. [/quote]

Completely opposite experience here. We used a reputable NAYEC accredited center for our children from age four months on and wouldn’t have changed a thing. We had the same max three to one ratio per classroom, so generally 6 kids with two main teachers. but there were also additional floaters available to assist as needed and during numerous unscheduled pop ins I never observed a baby’s needs being unmet. Plus all activities were focused on what was most developmentally appropriate for their specific age range since all were within a few months of one another. In contrast at the in home daycares we visited with kids of different ages all together it seemed like the caregiver’s attention was monopolized by more active toddlers, with the younger infants being less catered to and sometimes left in unsafe situations. (Anecdotally I personally know of two young children who were seriously injured while in the care of at home daycares). I appreciated the center model of having multiple adult caregivers on staff (plus a director/assistant director supervising) which both made me feel more at ease from an oversight/accountability standpoint and also from a practical standpoint allowed for more reliable care without being subject to an individual caregiver becoming ill or going on vacation. [/quote]

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