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October 2016 Moms
Sprinkels28
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What are you doing for daycare ?
Sprinkels28
member
Hi Ladies!
I did a quick search and didn't see anything on the topic. I am currently in a day care search frenzy-- all of our local daycares are on a 18month-3 year wait list... I can not believe it!
What are you doing for day care?
Is there a wait?
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time?
Re: What are you doing for daycare ?
There is a waiting list, but we already have a spot.
$188/week for full time infant care (we will not use all of this, obviously, but they are open 6-6. Most days, baby will be there from around 7-3:30. He will also not go in the summer while I'm off.) The price will go down when he moves to the 2 year old room.
Edited to add: There is typically a wait here as well; we are just very lucky that the manager of the place we chose is a close family friend.
Around here the wait time is something like 2 years. Which means there are ladies who are literally just turning HPT trying to get a spot. Its insanity.
LFAF Summer 2016 Awards:
Nope!
$200/week for three kids until DD is three. It's about 20 hours/week (4-5 day).
DD was in daycare until recently. We paid $320/week for full time care and there wasn't a waiting period. I loved everything about it except
the sick policy. She was always sick and we had to pay regardless if she was there.
Me: 28 DH: 27
I know this isn't an option for most people, so one suggestion - have you considered a nanny share? You can try to find another family who also needs a nanny and find a nanny willing to care for multiple kids at once. Around here, having one child with a nanny is usually $15-20 an hour, and two kids is $20-25. That way, each family pays less and you don't have to worry about finding a day care.
What i've noticed is that most daycares will say: "we really won't know until much later if we'll have a spot, so call us when you have given birth." (I think that's insane, by the way).
We are going to be paying $295/week for full time infant care.
What are you doing for day care? Daycare
Is there a wait? No- we went and found a daycare during late 1st tri, early 2nd so none of the places we looked at had a waiting list yet.
How much is your weekly day care? ours is broken down monthly at $1075/mo which includes table food for lunches when she's a little older, daily email updates etc. It does not include diapers, formula and things like that.
TTC only since Dec 2015. I had some weight to get off. Been working hard in the gym for over a year.
BFP 02-15-16 with our first
IT'S A BOY!!!
What are you doing for day care? We chose the KinderCare right by my job. I can go check in on him anytime, and stop in to breastfeed as well.
Is there a wait? There wasn't when we booked it, but we did this early second tri.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? We are doing full time care, and it is $365/week.
She isn't licensed so we can't claim her on taxes but the cost is so much cheaper than any center around and while we live pay check to paycheck we are still in a high tax bracket and phase out of a good credit.
i was very against going unlicensed... But we know her well and she takes amazing care of our son. And it's only him and another boy there half the week. So she's not overloaded with kids. A lot of his good behavior and his nap scheduling I credit to her.
Edit- the center we picked was a little over $500 a week. Which is pretty standard here. It was a middle ground price if you will. One other place was much higher and another option was like in the $400 hundreds.
I literally just called our prospective daycare bc you guys give me anxiety and theres no waiting list aaaand our friends daughter goes there and they already told them we would be calling so amen hallelujah.
its cheaper than most daycares (NJ) and is 205 a week for full time infant
I feel so relaxed now.
After I'm done with school, he'll switch back to shift work, which is two 24 hour shifts per week, and I'll be working three 12's a week. We will try to manage it so we don't need care, but we may need to hire a part time nanny. We just don't know at this point. His parents just moved 600 miles away, so they're no help on that front.
Baby GIRL born 9/16/201
BFP! EDD 8/1/2019 CP 4w2d
It's a boy!
I'm really hoping to avoid daycare the 1st year since I work from home, we'll see.
What are you doing for day care? We'll be home until January, then she'll come to work with me until August of 2017, then she'll go into daycare at the church where DH works.
Is there a wait? No, but they follow the school year, so you can't put them into the program until August. Well, you can, but you have to start paying in August and we felt like it was a waste of money to start paying for daycare this August (before she's even born!).
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? $115 a week (with his employee discount) for full time care.
There IS a waiting list, but applications are accepted on a need-basis, and this program takes into consideration many aspects of your schedule AND personal life, because it also incorporates Family Involvement and Growth counseling into the early headstart program. It's pretty great, and I think worth the wait, because it not only focuses on truly developing children's skills, creativity, and personalities, but encourages and almost forces an active and involved homelife, which is extremely beneficial during child development.
Part time 8-12 is FREE.
3/4 time 8-2 is $25/week.
Full time is $50/week.
Keep in mind, this is a low income program.
Me: 28 DH: 27
Married 5.21.2011
TTC Since October 2012
Me: 36, all normal, DH: 43, MFI
IUI #1 & #2 - Sept & Oct 2014, BFN
IVF with ICSI #1 January 2015 - BFP, M/C Feb 2015
FET June 2015 = CP
IVF #2 September 2015 - Discovered during ER I had ovulated early, 0 retrieved
IVF with ICSI #3 January 2016 - BFP! Beta #1 - 839, Beta #2 - 3,192, Beta #3 - 15,000+ = TWINS!
EDD 10/12/16
the sickness).
Me: 28 DH: 27
Most places around where I live are $200 - $250 a week, but I'll have summers off so that works nicely.
What are you doing for day care? My mom will come to our house and watch our baby.
Is there a wait? No - she keeps trying to come over here before the baby's even here ;-)
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? Sort-of free. We need to pay her something - at least to compensate her for gas to travel! But she makes it hard to give her anything.
That sounds super-ideal, but we will need to start looking into daycares. I'm willing to take advantage of my mom to keep my wee tiny baby out of a daycare, but don't want to keep on doing so. I'm hoping to transition into a daycare a few days a week when the kid is one or so. There's just so much other planning I haven't really looked into it so far.
What are you doing for day care? He will start full time daycare in February
Is there a wait? There is a wait now. Someone at work told me to start looking early, so we looked and found a place and when we booked with our deposit we got one of 2 spots left.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? For full time we are going to be paying $170/week
What are you doing for day care? Baby B will stay home with me until January while I am on leave. When I go back to work, he will be staying at an in-home daycare that a family friend has and it will be him and an 18 month old boy. After he turns 1, he will be at a church preschool.
Is there a wait? Not for the family friend, but the daycares and other in-homes I looked at before there was a waitlist and nobody knew if/when they would have an opening! We don't have a lot of good options around here. The church preschool has a list but we are #2 and should be in by fall 2017.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? It's $30 a day for the in-home, and we won't pay if we aren't there. She is perfectly fine if my mom or MIL wants to watch the baby one day or even for a week. Once he gets to the church preschool, it's $195 a week for 5 days a week no matter if he is there or not. He will be going 7:30-5 M-F to both (except for holidays of course when we are off.)
Edited to add info.
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
I I really appreciate it though, so my way of paying her back is by never asking her to repay when she 'borrows' money. Like we all went to Disney last summer and I put the rental car and hotel on my credit cards and then the people who were going were paying me their share, she is forgetful so didn't but I never asked her for it. Hopefully it evens out in the end.
What are you doing for day care?
The little guy will be going to the daycare my nephew used to go to and niece goes to now. My sister has used them for the last 5 years so I already know most of them there anyways.
Is there a wait?
No because we signed him up already to hold his spot.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time?
Weekly daycare is $1400 but because my sister gets a discount from her job and the daycare owners know me, they gave me her corporate discount so it's $905 a month instead. (Thank goodness they gave us the discount!) We will be using them starting in January and it will be full time. Not ideal because I'd rather be home with him or my husband, who wants to be a stay at home Dad, but we can't afford for either of us to stay home. He will get dropped off at about 7am by either one of us (probably my husband) and then picked up by me by 3:45/4 right after work. Any days my school is closed, I'm not sending him either.
*edited to add
Is there a wait? Yup. I'm in the process of actually looking for early start Preschools for my 19m old, because currently the only way to guarantee a spot for my baby girl is to take her big brothers daycare spot. Preschool here isn't cheap either. It's a bit cheaper than daycare but not much. But we're also on a wait list for a 2nd spot at our daycare.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? My son goes 3 days a week from 9 AM - 530 PM and we pay $980/month and he's with my mom the other two days. Sadly she wont be able to watch both kids so we'll either have to do both full time in daycare, or one full time in daycare and one part time with my mom watching part time. It's $80/day, so if he's there 5 days a week it's $400/week or about $1200/month. And no discounts for siblings, so I'm looking at anywhere from roughly $2200 - $2400/month. If we move him to preschool, it's going to be closer to $1700 - $2100/month.
Married to DH for 6 years (together for 16)
DS born 12.13.14
DD born 10.15.16
BFP 1.24.18, MC 3.13.18
Married to DH for 6 years (together for 16)
DS born 12.13.14
DD born 10.15.16
BFP 1.24.18, MC 3.13.18
Today I have to go on 2 more tours and pay for a week of day care in order to be on the wait list (for the ones by my house). We might use the one by my work until one near home opens by. Its just not ideal because of traffic and crazy drivers, oh and having a baby in the car for an hour while I'm driving and hoping he doesn't have a daily freak out...
The one by my work lets you alternate between full time and part time if needed--they just ask that you let them know the week before and you can pay weekly or monthly. The one by the hospital is $198/ week for full time...and the ones where we live are $300/ week for full time... crazy difference from us living in the city to me working in a more rural area..
What are you doing for day care? My job has a subsidized childcare center, which I am SO grateful for. It's right on the campus where I work and goes up until kindergarten and we get an employee subsidy so it's like 40% off. I have no idea what we would do otherwise.
Is there a wait? There is, but we have a spot. We filled the last spot in the newborn room so they can't enroll anyone else until June 2017.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? Our plan is to send the baby 3 days a week, full day, if H keeps the same work schedule. It'll be about $600 per month with my employee subsidy.
What are you doing for day care? Thankfully husband works nights, so baby will stay home until mobile - or drops an additional nap, with our first this was around 10 months. Then he'll go to the same facility big brother will be going to - it's a learning center associated with the hospital my husband works at.
Is there a wait? Our center said they would need 1 week notice since another one of our children will be attending.
How much is your weekly day care? Full time? Part time? For baby number 2 - Full time for an infant through first year would be $152.00 per week but with a sibling there it will be $125.00 not including cost of care for our 3 year old.
Is there a wait? I'm checking with them again soon, because we were told that since we are both active duty we have priority, so they suggested not putting LO on the list until October, so she can start in Jan/Feb when my maternity leave is up. I just worry that the woman I talked to was wrong about the waiting list and we'll be left having to pay DC prices for child care until I can get her into the military's center.
How much is your weekly care? I can't find the exact prices because she wouldn't give out that information until we actually applied, but it's based on your income and subsidized by the military, so the best estimate for full time I can find is 200-250/week.
Married: 10/11/15
Baby girl Addie born 10/12/16
New Bundle of Joy- EDD 10/27/16
Like most kids here, DD goes to a sitter who watches children in her home. She charges $25/day, and DD usually goes three days/week (my husband works a rotating, 12-hour shift so he's normally home two weekdays). DS will go to the same place when I go back to work ... Luckily, DD starts kindergarten in August (and grandpa will be helping with before/after school care for her), so my budget will remain pretty much the same unless school is cancelled.