We've started doing facility and home tours of different daycares and family child cares to find out what our options are once we have the twins and I go back to work (April/May 2013). I think we're leaning toward an in-home child care provider, but I'm worried that once it's time for them to start child care, the person we choose won't have an availability. I'm such a Type-A person, I want to know NOW that I have spots secured for our boys.

For those of you who are using an in-home or family child care provider, how did you go about lining up your spot? Did you have a back-up plan in case you didn't get in with your first pick? At what point during pregnancy or after the baby was born did you have child care secured?