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[quote=Anonymous]We only have one baby but commute to daycare on metro daily and I strongly prefer it to our other options.  If you can go slightly off peak (i.e. we leave around 8:30 and go home around 6:15), it really is not terrible (depending which line you take - we are yellow or blue line from VA to DC).  Some people are horrible about moving to let you sit near the stroller but most of the time people will make space.  Our son loves to interact with others and I think most people enjoy interacting back with him, and as others have said, it's nice to have family time together instead of having a kid in the backseat of a car for 30+ minutes if we drove.  Also, having the baby near the office means my husband can sometimes drop in at lunch time/if he has a meeting out of office/etc. and we feel like we're not paying for our kids to be in care while we commute.

As PPs have indicated - the major issue is metro elevators are not totally reliable - we experience at least one broken elevator a week.  I would think about and plan for having to carry one kid, hold the stroller, and having your older kid somehow stand and hold on to you.  About 30% of the time when I have to do the escalator, someone who seems normal offers to help and I let them deal with balancing the stroller while I hold my son, but that means 70% of the time I'm doing both.  [/quote]

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