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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]

+1 are you crazy OP?[/quote]

I sent my child to daycare for backup care a few times.  The different in care between any sort of daycare and a nanny is night and day. Even at the best home daycare your baby will be waiting to be fed, changed and receive less interaction with caregivers.

Consider a mom who has triplets.  Do you think the triplets receive the same amount of attention and care as a singleton?  Nope.  That’s what you’re signing up for - one person to watch 3 or 4 babies every day.  You’re crazy if you choose that when you have the means to hire a nanny. [/quote]

When my child was a baby I would never have considered sending them to a "backup daycare" with random caregivers as an occasional thing. Consistency and caregivers that know your baby is so important. I get that it's a necessity sometimes for some families, but it's so different from sending them to their regular center where the caregivers know them (and also why asking about turnover is so so important).

We were spoiled because our center overstaffed so there was actually one teacher for every two babies. It was awesome.

The hardest year was when DD moved to the 2s room. I think that age 2 is when home daycares have a real advantage because they will typically have a smaller group there vs the 12 kids they can have in a center. But there is also an advantage to consistency. We're glad DD has been in the same small center since she was a baby.[/quote]

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