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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you start the baby at the center earlier? You might pay for full time but only take a few days a week. Expensive but then you and kid get familiar with day care routine before you have to go back full time. Gives you options of something comes up at work, you want to change days, you get sick. If you know what center you want to use and like them for development, I don't see any downside to starting walker (other than cost) and trying to put together enticing nanny package, paying taxes, any benefits (use your car, leaving lunch for nanny, days off) might quickly approach center costs.[/quote]

OP here. We're ok with paying full-time for a center spot even while I'm part-time, but we're on a nine-month waiting list for the center near DH, and there's an unknown wait for the center at my work. (We're 27th on the list, but they've given us zero sense of what that means for when and whether we'll get in.) I'm not sure we can count on getting into either center by the time I would need to go back to work. The au pair or part-time, short-term nanny options, will have to be plan B until our turn comes up. (And in anticipation of the next question, if we can't get into the centers near work, then I would rather have our LO cared for at home until a center spot comes open, if only to avoid having to take on a more challenging commute in winter weather with an infant. Metro is bad enough as it is.)

It sounds like the consensus is that the best Plan B, albeit possibly really expensive, would be to go through an agency to get a part-time, short-term nanny. Is this basically what people think? Definitely not an au pair? [/quote]

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