My LO is 8 months and debating on a nanny or day care. live in Chicago and winters are brutal. Our thought process is to hire a nanny for the winter months and send him to daycare in April continue..

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Your kids will get a few colds in daycare but will have better immunity long term. We sent ours at 3mo. Tricky to manage switching when nannys like consistency and daycares can have long waitlists

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Might be tough to find a new nanny each winter or retaining the same one, my wife used to nanny and consistency in a pay check is huge.

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We did something similar with our LO. Wound up being a great plan. Highly recommend using a nanny to delay daycare for a few months

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Only reason on not sending him to day care is the fear of him developing an infection from other kids and giving him at least a year to build his immunity and then push him off to daycare. Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thank you

What is the ideal age to send a kid to daycare? 12? 18 months?

Used to live in Chicago and went the nanny route. It worked better for our schedules. At one point we had a morning nanny and evening nanny. Daycares didn’t like our schedule and we heard too many horror stories from friends. You can pay approximately the same or less for a nanny for one on one care. We use Intuit for payroll and taxes and it’s pretty simple to do

Personal choice both my kids went to day care from 3 months, and we live in Chicago. Like C1 said they’ll get sick but in the long run it’s good for them although it sucks at the time. Now when my 7 years when she gets sick it’s usually over quickly. We chose day care for a couple of reasons 1) better social interaction for kids 2) more structured learning 3) people skilled in this area 4) i work from home a lot and our home was not as conducive for having kids home.

Don’t make the decision on cost unless you have to, do it because you think that is what’s right for your situation. When we had two kids in day care it would’ve been less to have a nanny but at that point it was better for my older one to be in preschool

Kids will get sick now or sick later. Germs lol Pokémon, gotta catch em all. No shortcuts

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