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[quote=Anonymous]We have had a wonderful PT nanny watching our 2 kids for about a year.  Prior to that we used daycare, but when our second was born, it became less expensive to pay a PT nanny than to pay FT daycare for an infant and young child and only use the hours we need--we were unable to find any place that offered PT care for an infant.  For the time being, it is a great arrangement--we love our nanny, our younger child has rarely been sick the way our older one was, and life has been much easier without having to round everyone up and get out the door every morning.  Looking forward, though, our older one will start kindergarten in the fall and our younger one will be 2, meaning that we could switch to 3 days/week of daycare for the younger one and school plus extended day for the older one.  
We currently pay around $27K a year for around 30 hours a week of care, and would pay much less for 3 days a week of daycare plus extended day, but it would be much more of a hassle, and we'd also have to figure out some kind of alternate arrangement for covering the months our oldest would be out of school.  And I'm a little worried about sending our older kid to kindergarten and having it be an all-day experience rather than easing him into the full school week over time.  
I'm wondering if anyone else has made this transition, and how it has worked out?  At what ages did you start your kids in daycare and/or after school care after having a nanny?
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