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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If money is not an issue, I recommend hiring a nanny. But that requires a lot of money and is out of reach for a lot of people including myself, so I chose to quit my job.

It also depends on the infant. My older child is a super easy baby overall. He would sit in a rocker the entire day until he could pull up and walk. I would take him out for food and to nap, but he was just very content being in one spot when he was an infant. Never needed anyone to rock him to sleep, or hold him. I never felt tired with him.

My youngest child is very difficult in comparison. He has reflux which apparently is common in babies. Made him scream all day long until I was figured it out and switched his formula. He needs to be held all day long; if he sits in one spot for more than 5 minutes, he would scream. Feeding and burping took forever because of reflux. A complete opposite of my older child. I was exhausted carrying him around and then rocking him to sleep for every single nap. His naps are also terrible so I barely get any rest before getting up and doing it all over again. I can't imagine sending him to daycare because there is no way anyone would be willing to carry him 10+ hours the way I do. There are multiple kids they have to watch; there's just no way. I am his mother and I get frustrated many many times. I have cried countless times. Imagine a daycare worker who also has to take care of multiple other kids too. He's older now and is a lot easier than before, but the first 6 months was a blur for me.

That's why I'm suspicious when I hear that people claim that babies don't cry at all in a daycare. That someone rocks them all the time. Some babies are easy, that's for sure, they're laughing all the time, having fun like my oldest. But ALL babies? No, I don't believe that. At least be realistic. Your baby may not be a difficult kid, but there might be another one who screams all day for all sorts of reasons. I'm sure infants are rocked or held, but do they hold 1 baby all day long 10+ hours a day, while they have other kids to tend to?

My older kid probably would have been okay if he had to go to daycare, but definitely not my younger one. OP, you should really think about multiple options if at all possible. [/quote]

This is really not relevant to OP. She's not asking if she should quit her job. She is asking for the timing of daycare wait lists.[/quote]

Her opening post talks about "childcare" options. Even the title has that word "childcare." Is daycare the only childcare option that can be discussed? [/quote]

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