What are your childcare plans when you have more than one LO? I think I want to continue to work but I might ask if I can go part time.
What are your childcare plans when you have more than one LO? I think I want to continue to work but I might ask if I can go part time.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
I would probably have to reduce my hours a bit but we'll also send the 2nd to daycare.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
charlie is in daycare and we have a nanny for olive. it is the priciest option.... it would be more inexpensive if both were in daycare or both were watched by a nanny. but charlie thrives in daycare, and i didn't want to send olive to daycare as a baby for at least the first year. once olive drops to one nap, she will be in the same daycare as charlie.
pomegranate / 3008 posts
This is part of the reason we've elected to just have one child - if we were to have more than one, we'd want them relatively close together. It wouldn't make financial sense to have me continue to work and have two kids in daycare and I refuse to stay home for the sake of my emotional health.
pomegranate / 3414 posts
We are trying to decide this right now. DD is in daycare/preschool and thriving but the cost of two is doable but will strain our budget. We are currently looking for a nanny but I am torn about pulling DD out of her current setting. We've thought about splitting and doing nanny for LO#2 and keeping DD in daycare but aren't thrilled with the idea of two separate caregivers.
pear / 1837 posts
I think my parents will have moved to our area by then, and we'd probably find a two-day-a-week daycare program for the little one and my mom would watch him/her the other three days for at least the rest of the first year after I'm done with mat. leave. Then I think we'd just suck it up and tighten our belts for the double daycare cost for that next year, and then the older one would be in public school.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
@purrpletulips: you could do a nanny share for baby #2. that was our original plan.
pomegranate / 3414 posts
@Mrs.Bee: We are looking into that but even doing that it would cost about the same as having both in the daycare facility.
grapefruit / 4110 posts
For 2, we would stay in the situation we are in. We have a sahm mom that watches our first son. I also have a job that may not necessarily require daycare. But I like my time. At 3 kids it doesn't make sense to work anymore because the daycare cost is extreme. But our goal is 2 kids so it shouldn't be an issue.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@Mrs. Bee: That's exactly what we're doing. Lala is in school full time and Mei Mei has a nanny (well, starting in July...) I think we might reduce Lala's school to half time during the school year to save some money.
pomelo / 5178 posts
I stay at home now, but the kids still go to daycare two days a week so I can do schoolwork and run errands. The daycare is an in-home provider that DD has been going to for the last 1.5 years; she's wonderful, and DS is the only baby under 18 months, right now, so he gets his own teacher all day long. It's the best of both worlds for us, since DD gets the group experience and DS gets mostly one on one attention in a group setting.
pear / 1723 posts
I'll be staying home until the kids go to preschool. I'm not sure exactly what age that will be though. I plan to go back to work part time/half days once they're in school. Luckily we have lots of local family that can help out with childcare if I need an extra few hours of care here and there to make it work.
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
I was going to stay home for a year with one child. When I found out two more were on the way the only thing we could do was have me stay home. I don't mind though I love being a stay at home mom.
grapefruit / 4187 posts
I don't have kids yet, but if we were to have two kids under 6 we would have to get a nanny. We couldn't afford two in daycare at the same time.
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