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[quote=Anonymous]We are in similar positions in that my family also can afford a nanny, but we chose a daycare that's a 15 minute walk from home.

For me, I couldn't make myself okay with having a single relative stranger be alone with my baby all day. I'll be honest in that this is probably primarily caused by postpartum anxiety and not necessarily rational, but that was the deciding factor for me.

We started at 5 months. Baby was fine. Took a couple of weeks to start sleeping well at daycare, but it was a pretty short adjustment period. Seriously, she loves daycare. There are so many interesting and new toys for her to play with and she seems to really like interacting with the other babies (which started way earlier than I was expecting - at drop off she'd crawl to a toy and then crawl to a baby to share the toy pretty much as soon as she could crawl). She's one now and still seems really happy there, though I understand older toddlers sometimes have more separation anxiety than this age.

The illnesses have been tough, but we haven't had to deal with anything too serious. Mostly just a lot of sniffles. We've had to stay home with her I think 6 or 7 days. That probably is more than a nanny would call out in the same time period, and the sick days are definitely stressful, but if you have backup care I think it'll be manageable.

Anyway, it sounds like you want to do daycare. I know a lot of people insist nannies are necessary for infants but I really don't see it if it's a good daycare.    [/quote]

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