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[quote=Anonymous]Haven’t read all the replies, but I am a nanny and frankly a lot of the downsides to daycare you will already be stuck with due to your older kids.  Your baby’s naps will be disrupted due to siblings.  Baby will get sick a lot due to germs from big kids.  You already have to have everyone up and out the door on a set schedule.

One question I have is what is your routine when somebody is home from school right now?  If right now the nanny handles all the random days off, you should bear in mind that school is fewer than 200 days a year.  That leaves about 60 days a year that are week days but not school days.  Summer break, random holidays, teacher work days, and above all that you have sick days.  And a sick 5 yo can doze on the couch in front of disney+, but a sick baby is going to require hands-on care.

That’s the big challenge I see if you still use a nanny and haven’t done school as your sole childcare.  Make sure that you have good options for holiday care and that you are budgeting to pay for holiday break camps, etc.[/quote]

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