Child care choices and cost

springbeduk2 · August 2014

Bmorebaby5914 said:
I feel like I'm getting ripped off! We have a nanny coming for DD and are paying $450 a week (central VA) for roughly 40 hours.

That seemed to be the going rate when we looked and interviewed candidates!

If she's coming to your hone and caring for your baby as her full time job especially if it's not under the table I don't think you're getting ripped off to pay something like a living wage.

I feel bad about how low my person's hourly pay works out to be but she is in her own home, they have other income, health insurance, etc, and she has chosen that rate because she thinks teachers are underpaid (her daughter being a teacher)

crystalmir91385 · August 2014

Had I not been let go at the end of the school year, we were sending DD to a private daycare. She charges $125 a week including formula, if we wanted it, and she would have cloth diapered as well.

With my PT job MIL will do the babysitting.

giggler25 · August 2014

I'm in NYC area and FT daycare here is around 2000-2200 a month.

kuvande · August 2014

We do in home daycare for $175/wk, 5 days per week. They supply formula, but he gets breastmilk that I supply. They will provide all food and snacks as he gets older.

Jennyinheaven · August 2014

I quit my full time restaurant manager to be mostly a SAHM, I do waitress 3 nights a week at one of the restaurants owned by the company I used to manage for. The cost of the type if daycare I would need with such a changing schedule made it completely unworth it, plus I used to work 60+ hour weeks and I would completely miss my baby growing up

limechiffon · August 2014

I'm another one with a SAHD but I think we're going to need to figure something else out soon. My husband is not really "stay at home", he a photographer and most of his work is evenings and weekends, weekdays he does computer stuff and emails. And he insisted he could do weekday at-home stuff while watching the baby, but he's finding out it's not that easy. So I think we need to find something part-time, either our house or in-home or a center. Tomorrow baby is going to stay with a friend's nanny because husband wanted to take a daytime gig, and I just didn't want to take a vacation day to cover for him.

The thing is that money really isn't that big an issue, we can afford something part-time, we just have to find it and my husband needs to get on board.

Jennyinheaven · August 2014

kitchencolors said:

Jennyinheaven said:

I quit my full time restaurant manager to be mostly a SAHM, I do waitress 3 nights a week at one of the restaurants owned by the company I used to manage for. The cost of the type if daycare I would need with such a changing schedule made it completely unworth it, plus I used to work 60+ hour weeks and I would completely miss my baby growing up

Tread lightly... this type of sentiment isn't typically well received.

I meant no disrespect, I think a happy mother makes a happy baby, and I understand everyone makes the choices that works for their family, financially, emotionally etc. Truth is I hated working such a crazy schedule I felt like I had no life and didn't love my job so for me getting to spend more time at home works for me.

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