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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You will be swapping 1:1 attention for 1:3 or 1:4. Do you like washing many bottles every day? Having a baby with RSV/hand food and mouth/roseola/etc? Dealing with a changing cast of caregivers? Having an overtired baby who doesn’t nap because infant rooms are generally loud and bright and hard for infants to sleep in? Not having your baby’s poops
Changed immediately? Having them lay on a boppy or in a chair or bouncer most of the awake time when they aren’t being fed or diapered? That’s daycare. It’s just exchanging one set of issues for another. Nannies are costly for a reason - it’s why most parent prefer them. But working from home with a nanny and your child is also a special kind of challenge and personally while it was better for my kid it made my work life difficult. Try a home daycare to start - more home like, better ratios, and less institutional. [/quote]

It’s always so annoying when the nannies trying to drum up business post here, and I say that as someone who hired a nanny for ten years. But the post above is ridiculous nonsense. [/quote]

Yeah I hope no one reads this and thinks it’s true.

- mom who went from 1:2 nanny share ratio to 1:3 infant ratio and somehow the world didn’t end. Turns out that’s not a huge difference. Oh and the daycare washed bottles, had a dark and quiet napping area, and sent home a happy and clean kid each day![/quote]

+1 also beware of the notion that home daycares automatically have better ratios. In MD a home daycare can have 8 children including 2 babies and only one teacher for all of them.[/quote]

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