Daycare or in home nanny?

Question

Mamas, let me hear your thoughts on this. Would you rather send your LO to a daycare right now or have a babysitter come to your home but you won’t be home? My husband and I have been working from home and we have labs a babysitter come to our home but in March we are going back in the office. We have cameras at home but I just don’t know if I’m comfortable with having someone watching my baby at home without us being there? Maybe it’s because we haven’t really found a babysitter that we 100% trust. But at the same time, I don’t feel comfortable sending him to a daycare either. Well we have cameras at home so I think I’m more concerns with what if my baby starts crying and the babysitter can’t get him to stop? At least a daycare there are multiple teachers. I don’t know. What do you mamas think?

Answer

I’d do an in home nanny.

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I'm a huge advocate for daycare and early childhood education. Daycare is not just a babysitter. It allows for social interaction, structure and following direction from adults who aren't the parents. There are many benefits that you cannot get with your child being at home all the time. 
If its a matter of covid precautions, almost all schools are under strict operating orders by the state. My sons daycare the adults cannot even go inside. They check their temperatures multiple times a day and there have been no outbreaks.

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My situation is a little different but my husband is deploying soon and I work full time but from home, it’s a pretty demanding job so we just hired a nanny. We toured a couple daycares and I just didn’t feel comfortable at any of them. I know lots of babies go to daycare and are happy and fine, I’m just not ready. I plan to start him in daycare when he’s close to 2 and I’m able to spend more time looking and getting on waitlists. A nanny is way more expensive but if you can afford it I think it’s better since your baby will get one on one care. Most of the daycares I went to had at least 7 kids to only one teacher.

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If you do in home, get cameras. My friend had one for over a year that she thought was great and her kids seemed to like her. She borrowed her friend's nanny cam and saw that the nanny was really just on her phone all day and would yell at her kids! There are definitely advantages eg baby gets sick less and gets 1 on 1, but like you said there's no accountability.

Daycare or in home nanny?

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