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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Daycare is not the safest form of childcare! [/b] 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]

Yes it is.  https://www.keanelaw.com/library/childCarefatalities2003.pdf

"For 1993 through 2003, the overall fatality rate per 100,000 children in child care was 0.71 using the NHES and 0.83 using the SIPP. Child care is quite safe as compared with other settings in which children spend time, and deaths in child care make up only a small part of overall injury mortality in the age group. This is in line with the findings of Currie and Hotz (2001), who reported that child care provides a generally safe environment, partly because motor vehicle accidents are less likely in child care, although not one without significant risks. Analysis of the data on fatalities, however, shows that there are striking differences in the safety of different types of care and among children of different ages. Areas of high vulnerability are concealed in overall fatality rates"

"We compared fatality rates by age group and type of care for 1993 through 2003. The fatality rate in centers for children 0 to 4 years of age is 0.11 per 100,000 children enrolled. Family day care, offered in the provider’s home, is less
safe, with a fatality rate of 1.58. Care in the child’s own home is the least safe, with a fatality rate of 2.06".[/quote]

That OLD report does not distinguish actual nannies from grandmothers, babysitters, or other family members doing childcare.

Shame on you for spreading false information.  [/quote]

+1.  Ridiculously old and flawed “study”.  Why would anyone quote it?  Just to trash parents who can hire nannies?

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Aside from the age of the study, how is it flawed?
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The study doesn’t distinguish the types of home child care.  It’s lumping nannies, grandparents, great-grandparents, tee siblings, other relatives, unlicensed childcare of more than five babies (common in low income areas) and babysitters in one group.  Makes it useless in discussing nanny vs daycare or the safety of daycare in comparison.   [/quote]

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