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What is your back-up childcare?

  1. regberadaisy

    GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts

    She's in daycare so if they're closed or if they're sick we usually try to stay home of we can manage it before asking my ILs.

    DH has a hard time asking them!

  2. Mrs. Pen

    blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts

    I'll put out an SOS on Facebook. One perk of growing up in the homeschooled community is how many homeschooled teen girls I still know, or my mom knows and are more than willing to babysit in a pinch. They've been lifesavers.
    I can also ask my sister - but I would have to bring J to her and she lives 30 minutes in the opposite direction. And I also ask my mom.

  3. californiadreams

    pomegranate / 3411 posts

    i have a couple of babysitters i can call on from the past plus i imagine i will call our old nanny - but most of them would likely be unavailable during weekdays, so then it is me or DH.

  4. kml636

    pomegranate / 3225 posts

    My husband works as a civilian for the military, so our little ones can go to the military child development center hourly care. It is a godsend. $4 an hour for excellent care.

  5. skibobrown

    pomegranate / 3388 posts

    We don't really have backup. Our arrangement is when daycare is closed or DD is sick, DH stays home w/ DD on days that I have to teach. On days when I'm not teaching classes, then I cancel my other meetings and stay home with DD. In an absolute pinch we can call our next door neighbors, but I hate doing that.

  6. sunny

    coconut / 8430 posts

    We also have access to backup daycare or a nanny but we haven't used it yet. I took a day off when daycare was closed right before Labour Day. We can usually manage a day off or work from home if we need to.

  7. mediagirl

    hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts

    We are.

    If it's going to be more than 2 days, my mom would come into town.

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