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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ya’ll be tripping. Your infant “thrived” in daycare? You mean got sick every couple weeks, cried when you left him/her, napped horribly, clung to you when you tried to leave, had a revolving door of staff (since the turnover rate of day care staff is 25 percent every year), spent way too much time in seated swings/chairs/bouncers, and got RSV, roseola, hand foot and mouth, and a bunch of other diseases you never heard of. Ok. I am going to keep saying it because I wish I had known, daycare for infants is awful. It’s just awful. You can lie to yourself to sleep at night but if you’re being honest with yourself you know your child would have rather been at home with you. Let’s not kid ourselves here, please. [/quote]

How old is your oldest child? You seem really hung up on this. I bet you couldn’t walk into a random elementary classroom and figure out which child attended daycare vs. had a nanny or SAHP in early infant hood. Us parents who have been through this before understand that so long as your child is in a safe environment with a generally responsive caregiver and comes home to a reliable, loving family, it will be ok. FWIW I’ve worked part time with in home help and full time with center-based care. The only reason I’m on here is b/c I’m pregnant with #3 and trying to remember what all I need to do to secure care since it’s been a while!

Also, my daycare baby caught the usual run of the mill colds while there. It wasn’t until in preschool she caught RSV and ended up in the hospital. And I have plenty of friends who are SAHMs whose babies caught HFM, roseola, etc. that they managed to pickup from various mommy and me classes, play groups, library story time, etc. These things just go around.[/quote]

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