Day care or not?

Kaitlin_MLS · March 2009

Just curious how everyone does it? Do you work full/part time and use day care, do you stay home, do you work a different shift?? I'm just curious. We want to start a family early next year and I am just wondering what other people do...what option you took. TIA!

XXXXX222 · March 2009

We do not have children yet, but our 'plan' is to work opposite shifts. ?DH will be a nurse and I'll teach piano when he is home. ?I'm lucky to be able to arrange my own schedule. ?We know that things rarely go according to plan, so we're open to a number of possibilities.?

Mrs_Liberto · March 2009

We have not 100% figured out that dilemma, yet. We're saving $1000 a month toward at least partially covering daycare (it's around $1400-$1500 a month) but we're hoping when that time comes, I'll be able to go to part time or DH's schedule will be switched around enough that we won't need it at all.

I carry our insurance, so I doubt I'll be able to SAH all the time.

emiliemadison · March 2009

I SAH. It works for us. Had I returned to work, daycare would have eaten a huge % of my take home pay and it wasnt worth it to us. I enjoy it, too, so the sacrifices are worth it for us.

preppynewlywed · March 2009

We don't have kids yet, but the general plan is for DH to be a SAHD.

He freelances writing and illustrating so he has the ability to work from home and has the most flexibility.

Plus at the end of the day I am probably always going to be the high earner.

lo45fd98wq32 · March 2009

I'd like to be able to stay home for the first few years before returning to work. I'm a teacher, so when they go to school, it will work out fine. But, it will all depend on how much we are making and daycare prices wherever we are living at the time.

izzybella · March 2009

I've been a SAHM with DD and will be with DS. I started my Masters when DD was 7 months and we put her in a "center" at 12 months so I could have time to do schoolwork and she could be exposed to more kids. After DS is born she'll stay at the center 2 days/wk. ?

amiamish · March 2009

DH and I both work M-F, him 7-5, me 8-5. DS is in daycare from 730-530...

I wish he wasn't there so long, but we don't have any other options right now. It works great though for us, Jake LOVES school (as we call it).

liddia · March 2009

Right now, DH is working full time and I"m a full time student, DD is in day care. I'm finishing school in May, DS is due in June and DH wants to start a PhD program in Oct...so...I will be working full time with two kids in full time day care by mid-late fall.

swimrbride · March 2009

No babies for us yet, but I work part time so we are planning on hiring a nanny part time. I could find a part time nanny for the same price as full time daycare (most daycares around here do not do part time for infants). Once our child is 2 we would look into putting them into a part time MDO program.

We have discussed this so extensively b/c I worked at daycares while I worked on my master's and I absolutely refuse to send a child to daycare after that experience.

horizon1322 · March 2009

No kids here yet, but the plan is for me to take a "family leave" and stay home for a year or two. Then I'll probably take baby along to work (churches are generally good about that), and hopefully I'll be working at a church that has a preschool. DH works full-time, and I could technically be a SAHM if nothing else...

GettinNervous · March 2009

Work full time. I drop them off in the morning and he picks them up in the afternoon.

rebus82 · March 2009

I plan to be a SAHM as I'm already a SAHW. Any job I could get in this area, even with my degree, would barely cover daycare costs. Unless I wanted to work hours where I'd never see my husband, which would not work for either of us.?

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