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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is your child? A 1 month old needs very different kinds of care than a 3 year old.[/quote]

6 months. We are not considering daycare at all because we want individualized attention for baby. But I can’t imagine managing a nanny either. During my parental leave, I spent a lot of time at local parks and just wasn’t that impressed with level of interaction. Everyone talks about the educated trained nanny but a true Mary poppins type is so rare. [/quote]

Quality is rare in every field.

I usually reviewed ~50 applications, cutting it down from there to do phone interviews, check references, in person interviews, and then two or three working interviews. It’s a lot of work but I wanted to keep my career and couldn’t without help. Everyone from friends who saw them at the playground to random moms in their music class or even their preschool teachers who met their nannies at pick up would always comment on how great they were with my kids.

With both my kids I was lucky to be able to WAH much of the first year. Their caregivers became family friends in some cases. I think at minimum you want to WAH for 2-3 weeks at the beginning, you’ll see all you need to see in that time. Once your child is verbal you won’t worry so much. But I think it is warranted — to be realistic, it’s a high burnout profession, it’s lonely, and it takes the right kind of person to enjoy it day in day out.[/quote]

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