Stressing/venting about child care for #2

[picksthemusic]

I get you. But we're hoping (and it may come true) that our nanny/sitter moves North with us when we do, and we can keep our same DCP.

[niq]

Is there a mom's group or listserv for your neighborhood where you could look for nanny share?

Even on a tablet, I blame all wrong words in Swype

[karebear219]

This is the major reason we aren't going to have another anytime soon or at all.

[pisces6226]

*Semi lurker waves hello* I'm barely 6 weeks pregnant with #1 and I started feeling panicky about this today. Glad I'm not the only one. We've got time to think about options but is so stressful! I would like to be able to work part time and $15 an hour is a little less than I make an hour so it would basically even out. I guess the benefit is being able to keep your job in the long term. Hoping my mom will be able to help out a couple days a week if we're lucky. I have no idea how people afford to stay at home full time. It's not like we're extravagant spenders or anything. I should go back to worrying about carrying a healthy full term baby since daycare is a little cart before the horse.

[jennlin]

i've already texted you <3

[jennlin]

Apr 8, 2013 19:30:14 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

I get you. But we're hoping (and it may come true) that our nanny/sitter moves North with us when we do, and we can keep our same DCP.

are you going to be changing your job when you move? it'd be a long commute otherwise.....

[picksthemusic]

Apr 9, 2013 10:09:09 GMT -5 jennlin said:

Apr 8, 2013 19:30:14 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

I get you. But we're hoping (and it may come true) that our nanny/sitter moves North with us when we do, and we can keep our same DCP.

are you going to be changing your job when you move? it'd be a long commute otherwise.....

I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to have to. I'm not sure if I should look at a different company, or stay with my current company so I don't lose benefits/STD/EIB/PTO for when next baby comes... I will lose a bit of my lead premium pay, but if I have a shorter commute/waste less gas, that would save us money in the long run.

[sarack]

i always thought i'd send my 1 child to day care.. but now with 2 on the way, i am freaked out. i know that i'll figure something out.. and while my husband is home, he can watch them so i can get in a few hours in at work.

i seriously wish my mom lived closer now.. so she could stay with them, and i could work full time and get free child care like it seems everyone else does that i know.

[jennlin]

Apr 9, 2013 16:44:53 GMT -5 sarack said:

i always thought i'd send my 1 child to day care.. but now with 2 on the way, i am freaked out. i know that i'll figure something out.. and while my husband is home, he can watch them so i can get in a few hours in at work.

i seriously wish my mom lived closer now.. so she could stay with them, and i could work full time and get free child care like it seems everyone else does that i know.

But isn't your mom slightly unstable?

[picksthemusic]

There's the slight possibility that my mom may move up North with her boyfriend... but that's in the future.

[sarack]

Apr 9, 2013 19:56:04 GMT -5 jennlin said:

Apr 9, 2013 16:44:53 GMT -5 sarack said:

i always thought i'd send my 1 child to day care.. but now with 2 on the way, i am freaked out. i know that i'll figure something out.. and while my husband is home, he can watch them so i can get in a few hours in at work.

i seriously wish my mom lived closer now.. so she could stay with them, and i could work full time and get free child care like it seems everyone else does that i know.

But isn't your mom slightly unstable?

lol. but if she lived with me I could watch her! and obviously I didn't add that I wish my mom lived closer and she was doing better with herself. :0)

besides being completely broke, she is doing very well. not using drugs, as far as I know, and really involved in her church. I am happy that she has traded one addiction for another. the old mom couldn't be trusted with my dog.. well she probably could but i'd be worried.