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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, maybe I am an exception to the rule but I am a first time host mom with a newborn and I could not be happier with my decision.  Maybe I lucked out with my AP - she's amazing.

She's just a very good person who has a great attitude with just about everyone and everything. She takes initiative to find activities and play dates for our girl, and even though I had frozen purees and ready-made prepackaged foods for the baby she insisted on making everything fresh instead.   When she works less than 45 hours in the week, she offers to let us sleep in on the weekends; she refuses to let us pay her for groceries she buys; she constantly gets our daughter little toys and such; when I work from home, sometimes she makes me snacks or a lunch and delivers it to the office. She is just thoughtful and sweet to our whole family. She rarely needs to be told anything twice and she tries hard to make sure we're happy with her and in return, I make her feel like she's a real family member and try my best to bring her on any reasonably affordable vacations, have the food that she likes around the house, etc.

I think if you interview carefully and choose thoroughly, it's a great choice with a lot more flexibility and a lot lower cost than daycare in this area. I did daycare for only a little while when I went back to work, and then we moved here to Bethesda and I had no child care lined up and was on a ton of waitlists.  But getting an AP to join our family was the best decision ever.  We are expecting another baby to join the family and while our AP can't extend because of a graduate program she's starting back home, we are not hesitating in finding another AP to take care of our now-toddler and our new infant.  (talk about a savings on daycare then!)[/quote]

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