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[quote=Anonymous]I’m 46 and my husband is 44 so theoretically we span generations depending where you make the cut.

For our first child (born in 2012), we put our names on 11 DC area waitlists for childcare as soon as I found out I was pregnant. Only because the childcare at my office was lottery based did we get into that. Most childcares I never heard from or we were accepted well after her first birthday. So I was very lucky to be able to commute with her. Also we could spend the $80-100 per application and I could take 5 months (4 unpaid) staying home because that’s when the childcare became availabile.

When she was 2 we moved to CA for a new job for DH. I worked mostly from home so we found childcare near DH’s new office. We flew to CA, took a few days visiting daycares and applying, paid a deposit for one, and then lost our deposit when our preferred daycare (next to DH’s new office and had infant care too) opened. When our 2nd child was born both girls went there.

When the pandemic hit our younger daughter had just turned 3. Her daycare initially closed entirely and then opened to certain people (such as children of first responders). As she approached her 4th birthday we were offered a spot, but they couldn’t accommodate her needs (she had some delays such as needing speech therapy and they said she’d be put in the two year old classroom). It took us another 3 months to find a daycare that could offer us a slot, and that slot was available two months later. It was in our neighborhood, which was great, but had lost a large number of staff and as a result had gone from being open 7-6 to being open 8:30-5. Our prior daycares made similar changes.

My husband and I both work from home - his company doesn’t have a physical headquarters but they do have retreats a few times a year. I go to the office once a month or so. Our girls are now in school but if we were recalled to offices and had to mange daycare 8:30-5 as well as commutes I have no idea how we’d do it. And we each spent a few years commuting with babies and / or toddlers so it’s not that. We’d figure it out, but if we had to spend hundreds on waitlists and leave a daycare we were happy with we’d complain too!
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