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[quote=Anonymous]This is definitely the question that keeps me up at night! We have a 4 yo who is supposed to start kindergarten in the fall, and are expecting our 2nd any day now. We've been muddling along like everyone else, taking a few hours of PTO a week to switch off parenting shifts while we work from home. DH is a fed and his job is pretty autonomous and research focused, whereas mine is more demanding and requires a lot of calls and quickly responding to clients. We are overall lucky with how this has been going so far, but we're also burning down our PTO balances and I'm about to go on maternity leave and use up the rest of my PTO.

It seems like a nanny may be our only option come fall, but I'm very dubious about how this will work out. we've never had a nanny, and I just can't imagine my DD just accepting that she will switch from spending the day with us, as she has done during quarantine and will do during my maternity leave, to spending the day with a stranger who is also trying to manage an infant, while my DH and I are trying to hide in the basement in our very small house. Do others anticipate this problem?? Am I being overly anxious? I'm picturing all sorts of meltdowns and interruptions and general mayhem, all with a hefty price tag.[/quote]

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