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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to chime in, we love our daycare center.  It has its pluses and minuses:

Pluses:
- More oversight from director and other teachers means daycare centers are the safest form of child care, though child care is generally safe.
- They provide different toys than what you have at home.
- Center takes care of recruiting, training and background checking employees.  The infant teachers at DD's daycare are fantastic, and I've learned a ton from them.
- Very rarely does a center close unexpectedly. You generally know when the center will be closed and can plan for that.

Minuses
- The time it takes to transport and drop off baby at daycare is a significant chunk of your and your baby's day. It really is exhausting.
- Your baby will catch colds and other bugs at daycare in the winter and bring them home.  It's not always catastrophic - my DD has really only had one ear infection and a minor tummy bug this winter- but it does happen.  And sometimes as was the case for me, you will get sicker than your baby.
- Naps can be challenging.  I'm amazed that my baby can get some pretty good naps in at her daycare, which does not have a separate nap room (it did take a while to adjust), but she definitely sleeps better at home. [/quote]

Daycare is not the safest form of childcare!  Babies have died in daycare and you have no clue how the teachers are screened!  We go to a really good daycare/preschool and they have cameras - but don’t let the parents watch/check which I don’t understand.  My son fell hard and put his teeth thru his bottom lip and they still refused to let me see the footage of how it happened.  A teacher said he was walking with his hands in his pockets and fell.  I’ve never seen him put his hands in his pockets but whatever.

None of the teachers have even bachelors degrees.  There is little individual attention.

We were so much happier with our nanny!  We have cameras at home and could check in on him at any time.

However, we just couldn’t afford to keep her and had no choice but to do daycare.  So we chose the very best one we could find.

All that said, [/quote]

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