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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you can also freeze your participation in the program and come back after your baby is born and you're ready to go back to work.  That is another option.  Given that you're pregnant, if the baby is due anytime soon, you might have trouble finding a rematch AP, because the pool for IQ rematches is pretty small (and in my experience, the pool for IQ rematches who can also drive is basically non-existent).  We also got a dud in our first year.  We ended up freezing our participation at five months, when we rematched, and came back six months later.  We got the most amazing AP from out of country who was BRILLIANT at caring for my two children (then 4 and 2) and also also a lovely housemate.  We keep in close touch with her to this day - she lives near us as she married an American - and she is a now a teacher at a very well-regarded Montessori school.  We were so lucky to get her as our AP.

TO confirm what PP said, there is no penalty to rematch provided you stay in the program.  If you do, then you freeze where you are (i.e. the number of weeks you have used) and just apply the remaining weeks to your next AP.  This could mean a credit, if you pick a rematch who has less time on her contract than your AP did or it could mean you pay a bit more if the AP you pick from rematch has more time left.

If you leave the program all together, there are penalties that rise the longer you've been in the program.  I believe at 6 months you lose everything.  You can ask your regional director for a breakdown - they are very precise in our experience (we rematched twice two years ago, once when our AP tore his ACL and had to go home and the second time when our rematch crashed the car twice in one week).

Good luck with your decision - I really think you got a dud AP and as I wrote above, your AP wouldn't have lasted with our family more than a couple of days in her current state of non-engagement.[/quote]

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