Daycare

damerida · February 2015

OMG it's freakin expensive.

At least we aren't eating out anymore, or go anywhere, so we will be saving a ton on food and gas!

DreDreM · February 2015

Amen

AZMagnini14 · February 2015

Times 2 over here. Why am I even working!!!!

teaismCAgal · February 2015

I'm curious - how much is daycare in your respective cities. In California where we live, it's $1200+. It boggles my mind. We're doing a nanny instead b/c that's like $1800 — so all things considered, it's crazy the two are so close in cost.

damerida · February 2015

Also in California (Orange Co.) We are going to a home day care that is $350 a week! Ouch! Good argument for OAD.

Nprybylek · February 2015

We don't like to take about daycare cost just makes me mad!! I'm in Connecticut and all the daycares in and around my town anywhere from $280-$340/wk

blessdtxas · February 2015

Wow, I'm in Texas. We use an in home daycare that is $150/week. I feel lucky!

teaismCAgal · February 2015

OAD?

jray6456 · February 2015

Illinois... Any where from $215 a week to $280. I decided to go back to work part time so we won't be sending my little one to daycare.

nolanova85 · February 2015

Greater DC area. We are paying $1350 a month for in home daycare. Daycare centers range from 1700 - $2200 a month. Nanny share would have likely been around $2000. We're going with the cheapest option and just hoping that doesn't translate to the cheapest care!

JohnnaG2012 · February 2015

OAD= One And Done

egen78 · March 2015

My LO starts daycare soon and its $1550 a month. Crazy!!!! I can't believe it!

diz1313 · March 2015

Daycare around here is crazy expensive. Il after my son was born I became a stay at home mom because all but $100 of my paycheck would have gone to daycare. Wasn't worth it.....

teaismCAgal · March 2015

@egen78 - Are you also in California?! That's about what we're looking at here.

sarahlynne30 · March 2015

I also became a stay at home mom because day care is $300/week around here and after my checks I would have nothing left.

pengy16 · March 2015

The cheapest daycare I toured and the one we went with is $280 a week. I toured others ranging up to $400 a week and some were so horrible I couldn't understand how they got people to put their children there let alone pay that much to do so.

damerida · March 2015

What made them horrible? One I went to had us take off our shoes for the infant room. I was in flip flops so went barefoot, and the floor was super sticky. I can't imagine my baby crawling on that!

They also told us it was against the law for them to use cloth diapers. Uh, what? I think it was about $300/week.

pengy16 · March 2015

The one I found horrible was because the staff wasnt attentive to the kids. When we walked into the room there was a baby playing by the door which is where they kept the toys and nobody is watching him. Two babies were sitting at the table with chairs built in by themselves. Shortly after I got there they took them out as they were done eating (looked like they had been done before I walked in but they didnt bother til I showed up) and they just put them down on the floor where the toys were and walked away. There was a swing and bouncer for each child to have both to themselves and they had a baby unattended in a bouncer asleep.
The others werent terrible but there was individual things I didnt like about them.
At one while I waited I could hear and see the older kid classroom (mix of pre-school and school aged kids since it was summer time) teacher yelling at the kids and following them around screaming at them. I didnt have an issue with the baby room but I couldnt see staying there long-term.
Another they were feeding the babies on a boppy pillow on the floor with the bottle propped up on the pillow. There was a teacher right there but I wasnt a fan of that method.
All the places I toured either had us take off our shoes or wear the surgery booties. They said so we wouldn't bring germs into the baby room since they have little to no immune system which made sense to me.

teaismCAgal · March 2015

Does anyone else feel discouraged about how much of their salary is going to childcare costs??

jpagano113 · March 2015

Here it's 7$ a day Quebec,Canada) We're very fortunate here otherwise I definitely would not be returning to work... 300 a week!? Holy crap

teaismCAgal · March 2015

I just did the math - 40% of my salary goes to childcare; combined with my husband 20% of our household income goes to childcare. It's SO discouraging!!

stejjy · April 2015

It's around $110 a day here at centres(australia).. The government rebates some of the cost but it's still crazy expensive. I'd literally be working just to have my child in care, so we figured I may as well stay at home for the moment.

SerenityAE · April 2015

$200-300 a week?! Holy crap! :-O I'd have to stay home.

$130 a week here in Mississippi. We love our daycare, my LO adores his teachers and it's a relatively small place so everyone knows each other as family.

Most of the ones I called I didn't even bother to call back and ask for a tour because I didn't even like them from a phone conversation.

teaismCAgal · April 2015

So jealous of you folks with reasonable childcare options! We pay $2800/month for a nanny. I love her to pieces but we'll likely have to do daycare next year. It's too darn expensive!!!

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