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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spent a lot getting on daycare wait lists and then once my first was born I realized how much I hated daycare for an infant. Your perspective may shift. And a lot of these places will just take your 50-100 dollars and never offer you a spot unless you follow up incessantly.

After a few months of daycare with a sad baby who did not nap there and was constantly ill with RSV, flu, etc. we ended up switching to a small home day care and then a nanny share and were much happier with that set up. If you can afford daycare you can afford a nanny share and you may prefer that once your baby is here - plenty of women do. [/quote]

Sure, you may want to switch to nanny share or nanny or choose to SAH.  But if you're not on daycare waitlists now you'll HAVE to take on of those options because you've pre-emptively taken daycare off the table.  Get yourself on a few waitlists, OP, but feel free to keep thinking about different options for childcare.  (FWIW I wanted daycare and have been very happy with my kids in daycare.  Managing a nanny is not for me, never mind that I don't have space for it.)[/quote]

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