1stjohn0666
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hi! i see this question posed here a lot with diff circumstances.. so was hoping to get some advice from people in similar circumstances.
i’m in a senior managerial role in consulting, a demanding but somewhat flexible job and i WFH. my husb is in a surgical residency and works 6a-6p ish M-F and some weekends. w have outsourced a lot of our household labor (cleaning, some laundry, meal prep, someone drives the dog to daycare, etc).
we have an 8.5 mo and have had a nanny since i went back to work at 5 mo. our intention was to put him in daycare after a year or so.
we put ourselves on 2 daycare waitlists, but neither of them i would consider great or ideal (eg, both have 15 min transit times driving). we have looked and looked and the daycare options in our city (we are in the south) just generally don’t seem great. one highly-rated daycare had 30!!!! babies in a room with 5 caretakers, WHAT!
the nanny is good, but not great (eg, she’s not credentialed and doesn’t do structured activities w him… but i’m not sure whether/when that becomes impt anyway?). she has had personal emergencies (she’s a single mom to a 9 yr old boy) for which we’ve had to procure backup care, but overall it’s probably not as much/often as we’d need for daycare illness.
so.. has anyone been in a similar situation, specifically with 2 demanding jobs and not great daycare options? what did/would you do?
please assume money is not an issue. it might be but for purposes of this let’s say it’s not.
i’m in a senior managerial role in consulting, a demanding but somewhat flexible job and i WFH. my husb is in a surgical residency and works 6a-6p ish M-F and some weekends. w have outsourced a lot of our household labor (cleaning, some laundry, meal prep, someone drives the dog to daycare, etc).
we have an 8.5 mo and have had a nanny since i went back to work at 5 mo. our intention was to put him in daycare after a year or so.
we put ourselves on 2 daycare waitlists, but neither of them i would consider great or ideal (eg, both have 15 min transit times driving). we have looked and looked and the daycare options in our city (we are in the south) just generally don’t seem great. one highly-rated daycare had 30!!!! babies in a room with 5 caretakers, WHAT!
the nanny is good, but not great (eg, she’s not credentialed and doesn’t do structured activities w him… but i’m not sure whether/when that becomes impt anyway?). she has had personal emergencies (she’s a single mom to a 9 yr old boy) for which we’ve had to procure backup care, but overall it’s probably not as much/often as we’d need for daycare illness.
so.. has anyone been in a similar situation, specifically with 2 demanding jobs and not great daycare options? what did/would you do?
please assume money is not an issue. it might be but for purposes of this let’s say it’s not.