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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In normal times, babies get sick a lot in daycare.  Any little fever and you’re home with the baby for a couple days.  With covid, it’s even worse and certainly more frightening.

Go with a nanny.  Plus a good nanny will do child-related chores like the baby’s laundry, washing bottles, cleaning play area and toys, and making baby food.  [/quote]

Quantify "sick a lot" if you want to help out this new mom.

Anecdotally for me, for each of my two kids, it was only about 2-3 fevers a year, and they would recover in 1-2 days. I have never had to take off from work more than 2 days straight raising two kids up till 7 years old. Even if my kids got a cold, they certainly recovered in a few days compared to my colds that would last 1-2 weeks.

As to the original question from the OP, only you can decide if the extra $25k to get a nanny is worth it. If my HHI were at $150k, of course not. At $200k, maybe. At $250k HHI, I would absolutely go for the conveniences of a nanny. Doing daycare means you have to get the infant in clean diapers, clothed, otherwise ready (plus prepare all the bottles or what not), waste time doing drop offs and pick ups. A nanny saves you all that drop off and pick up time, plus the nanny can do all the bottles or first foods prep and the baby laundry and restock baby stuff and keep the infant area clean.       [/quote]

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