Canadians Daycare

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For those of us going back to work when do you go back? Have you found daycare? Are you using a dayhome or daycare centre? How was your search?
We are on the waitlist at 4 centres. One I love, one is okay and two I hate. I only go back for 11 weeks before summer holidays. I am supossed to call the place I love in Feb to find out if there is room. The search was really hard for me,.we don't live in a very family neighbourhood so dayhomes weren't really an option as there aren't any close. I am still looking to see if there will be openings in the few near my school.

[petitepomme]

I go back April 29th. I will have 9 weeks of work until summer vacation.

We are on the waitlist for 3 centres. The one that I really love (it's the only French daycare centre around us) only takes new children in September. I'm hoping Mia will get to go there in September. The other two centres are ok but I don't love them. We're hoping that my SIL will move in with us for May and June to watch Mia during the day but she hasn't given us a definite answer yet. If she doesn't work out, then I have a list of home daycares to call to see if anyone would take her just for two months.

All the centres here seem to have extremely long waitlists or are only licenced for children 18+ months. I feel like I waited much to long to get our name on lists (I started calling when Mia was a month old).

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We ran into the 18/19 month thing too. We might end up doing a temporary situation for the end of this school year as well.

[raynes]

I think we'll be going with a home daycare for a few reasons, 1) we're waaaaay too late to sign up for May and 2) it's just too expensive.

A mom on one of my Facebook groups is looking to set up a home daycare in the spring. She's an ECE and supervised at a centre before her mat leave. Her daughter is a few weeks older than Owen, so that's good. We're going to her house for a play date soon.

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Daycare is one of the reasons I nay not go back to school. The waiting lists are long and I don't feel comfortable in a dayhome situation.

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Jan 14, 2013 9:52:41 GMT -5 @smudgee said:

Daycare is one of the reasons I nay not go back to school. The waiting lists are long and I don't feel comfortable in a dayhome situation.

Are you taking a leave from teaching?
I agree with the dayhome situation it is SO hard to find a gov't licensed place and even then well I just don't know there is something about them if you don't know the people or know people that go there that just doesn't sit right with me.

[skiesthelimit]

I split my mat leave with DH and he goes back to work on March 11th. We put DS on the wait list when he was about a week old and we are still waiting. DC in Quebec is really cheap so the lists are crazy long. I've heard most moms wait about 2 years for a spot. We were lucky enough to find a private home DC that we really liked and he started last week. We wanted to do a progressive entry and start him out small, just 2hours a day 3 days a week and build up to full time about 2 weeks before DH goes back to work. We figured this way if it didn't work out with this DC we would still have time to find another place before DH went back to work.

His first day last week went well but he cried most of the time the other 2 days. There are a lot of kids and they are really loud and he's not used to it. There is a 15 month old who is up in his face all the time and wants to play "rough" with DS and DS wants nothing to do with him. He did eat his snack and slept for an hour so that was a good sign.

This week we are bringing him 4hours a day 5 days a week. The DC lady suggested this to help get him used to all the noise. Our home is really quiet as it's just the 3 of us so he's not used to the chaos of DC.

We will keep his name on the wait list of the public centers just in case but we are hopeful this place will work out. She's on the expensive side at 37.50$ a day but with our tax breaks for Quebec it will end up only costing us about 10.50$/day. There are subsidized spots in Quebec that are only 7$/day straight up, but those are really hard to get in to.

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I wish that our daycares were subsidized! And Adub... by school I meant work. lol. Morning brain. Right there is the reason why I shouldnt be going back to work. lol.

On a side note... I did get an offer to do some teaching at a well known trades school, but I dont know. I just dont know.

[raynes]

As long a you don't call yourself a university professor.....

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Jan 14, 2013 10:59:59 GMT -5 raynes said:

As long a you don't call yourself a university professor.....

I will call myself a scholar. I already do in my head. Or head master. Either one works.

[rxbeth]

I will be going back April 15th or 16th. I have put a deposit down at a center that is literally walking distance from my work. We aren't sure whether she will go 4 days a week or 5 days a week.

My MIL has kinda offered to watch her but isn't being very commital with it. I asked her last week to talk to her boss to see if she can have a dedicated day each week so we can arrange with the daycare and she hasn't addressed the issue with us. WTF? I would honestly rather she goes to daycare 5 days a week to start and then when DH is off for the summer (he's a teacher) he'll be watching her and then MIL can start watching her one day a week and see if she wants to actually do it.

We are going with a center. I'm too scared of in homes and regulations.

There is a Montesorri I LOVE but they said they would likely have a position for Madison but they'll call me in Feb or March. Seriously? I can't wait that long and be uncertain. The place we are going with is $13 a day less than the Montesorri. I figure we'll try this place until summer and think of sending her to the Montesorri if we don't like where she is at.