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2nd Trimester
Clicky Poll: Daycare/No Daycare?
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Re: Clicky Poll: Daycare/No Daycare?
BFP #1: 10/2011, Pre-eclampsia in last 6 weeks, emergency C-section, DD born 6/25/11
BFP #2: 8/16/14, Ectopic Pregnancy & Methotrexate Inj. 9/5/14, Adverse MTX reaction, HCG levels down after 2 weeks
BFP #3: 2/23/2016, EDD 10/28/2016
Ooooh! That is definitely a good "other". Good luck to the Dr on his dissertation!
I should add a "work at home" option!
My parents will be watching our LO during the day for the first year. A friend of the family (who is also watching her daughters LO during the day) will watch our kiddo every other Friday - and my mom will be watching their kiddo on the opposite Friday. It gives them 2 "free days" a month. I'm so glad my mom offered to watch our LO it will def. make going back to work easier.
After the 1st year (well kiddo will be 9 months) I plan on being a SAHM as long as everything continues to play out as we hope.
Right now we pay MIL to watch G. However, she does not want to watch 2 kids (understandable) and does not want to watch the infant (she had G as an infant). I was hoping that she would take the baby and we could transition G to daycare, but it looks like that's not going to happen.
If we have to put 1 in, I'd rather it be him as I want to at least get him in a PT program for socialization and to get ready for preschool, and you know, he's not a tiny baby anymore.
That sounds like a nice arrangment for everybody!
Other - My sister quit her job to start an "in-home" daycare for family (she only takes family, that way she doesn't have to apply for a state license) when my cousin and I had our children (they are 2 months apart). We pay her by the hour, comes out to be roughly $40-50 a week.
She is now up to 4 kids (one of them being her infant). With our # 2 on the way in August we are seriously thinking of a different situation d/t the circumstances. Its not fair to her OR the kids to add anymore into that.
DH is busy applying at different jobs trying to find a straight shift 1st or 2nd ( he works 10:30am to 7pm. And I am in health care so I think I can find something on the opposite shift as him that way we only need an 1 or 2 hours of overlap "daycare" a day.
Other: I am also an other. I will be finishing up my Phd and will be writing my dissertation while on fellowship for probably the next two years. So, I will be home doing that while also working pt out of the house (17 hours a week). DH works from home and owns his own company, so our schedules allow for no daycare.
I do think this will take some maneuvering. We could afford daycare, but we prefer not to do it. So, worst case scenario, if this becomes too much, I will quit the pt job- which I don't really need but enjoy doing to keep me organized.