Are your twins/triplets in daycare? How much does it average per week

PrimaandGee

Do you get a discount for multiples?  What about home daycare?

BabyDavison

I'm a SAHM b/c it would cost $2000/month in my area!

franciscaz

I have a nanny who is paid $15 an hour [I live in a small small college town, in Vegas the same nanny (qualifications and all) cost me $25 an hr at least].  She is PT and so when the cupcakes arrive we are just beginning to talk about going to 30 hrs a wk.  I also will be increasing her pay to $25 per hour.  It is expensive but I am  FT WAHM so I really don't have a lot of choices.  Daycare is an option, but as long as I can afford this option I would prefer it and I imagine day care will cost me more b/c it would be three seperate babies counted.

FloF9

My twins go to daycare 3 x a week - full days.  The second child is 10% off - so total per week (3 day week) is $273 for both of them.

Leah5185

I found a lady from church to watch them at her in home daycare- it is 600/month per child. She gave me $50 discount per baby a month ($100). ?So I guess it only costs us like $300 a week. ?That is not the norm here though. Everywhere else I looked was like 1200 a month for one child.?

shady06

I think it also really depends on where you live (high vs. low cost of living area).  I'm in Dallas-Fort Worth and am planning on taking my twins to the same daycare center that my son currently attends.  The normal infant rate is $210/week but since I will have three there they are giving me a 10% discount off each child.  Daycare for all three is going to run me over $2100 per month but it still makes sense for our family to do this. 

For what it's worth, standard multiple discounts in my area run 10% off for the second child.  I was able to get 10% off each child because I have been there for a while with DS.

Jem04

The nice places where I live do not offer a discount because they have a 1 year waiting list for spots, and they don't offer PT because they have a dedicated crib per infant. It is $245 per week per child - we are trying to figure out a way to avoid daycare if we can...

MandieSueM

My oldest DD was in a home daycare for $200/week.  Her daycare provider would have taken 2-3 of the trio but there would have been no discount, so our daycare would have been $800/week!  Yikes!  Because that's just slightly less than what I was making working, I quit my job and am a SAHM.  I don't know what the going rates are in other areas; we live in NH.

MamaChis

My kids will be starting daycare in June and it will be $684/week for the three of them.  I pay full price for the first baby and they are giving me 10% off the second two kids.

AlisaS

$2000/month plus some extra for fund-raisers and because i am a paretn representative. We get a discount for twins.

I am totally happy with my daycare.

regenab

I live in the Northern VA (DC Metro) area and for both girls it was going to cost almost $ 2400 a month (that is with a 10% discount off the second child), but luckily my DH is military and we use the military in home daycare program and it half the cost of out in town. It took until the girls were almost 4 months old before we were given daycare slots and I was put on the list when I was 12 weeks pregnant. I basically did not go back to work after the girls were born and had to find a new job when we were given our daycare slots. I have been lucky so far in that I have had 2 different providers (because they are military wives and are moved when their husbands are moved) and both have had 2 infant spots open, I refused to split my girls up. That is something else you need to look for with in home care, most providers by law cannot take more than 2 infants (under the age of 2, varies by state and county) unless they have an assistant working with them in their home.

 

maria15288

My current daycare lets us pay by the day for my 4 year old and my school age(he gets picked up from school) BUT for infants they don't allow that so it's a flat rate of $200 per kid so if all four kids were going it's going to be $2400.00 monthly. I'm trying to pay off some debt right now so that when the girls come I can stay home.

lewis514

It really depends on the regional area as prices vary. The center we will be using will give a 10% discount per additional child. This center only does full time for infants and it will be about $950/month each.

This was our top choice and also most expensive though the prices really weren't very different between the others we looked at. I think our second choice was only about $15/week less and this place is way better.

coffee bean

We paid $2280 per month before my parents started watching them.  We pay my parents $1000 per month to watch them.  Still a lot, but it's a lot of work for them and saves us too.

keg

For us, it's $405/week for both girls and that's with a $25 sibling discount for the second one. 

jd0614

I've got 3 in daycare - the twins get a 10% discount each.  During the 4 week months its about $2400, some months its more b/c there are 5 weeks.  One more year til DS is in Kgarten.  Can't wait.

MetalMonkey

We pay $150/child/week; total of $1200/month.  We were given a discount.  Our in-home dcp gives a discount for siblings.  Where we live $1200 is a steal, especially since I work with someone who pays $2000/month for his singleton and our dcp is wonderful.

wndrwmn1998

We get a 15% discount on the second child. We pay about $350/week, which is actually quite reasonable for my area.