From: chang@newave.mro4.dec.com (Wendy Chang)
Subject: Re: Daycare -- when to investigate?
Reply-To: chang@newave.mro4.dec.com (Wendy Chang)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:41:37 GMT


As this is your first baby, I will start investigation now.  Not to make
a committment, just to find out all the options.  If you have never
visited a daycare center before, now is the time to visit a few.  Some
daycare centers don't offer infant programs.  The ones offer infant
programs can operate very differently.  Some put babies from 1-15 months
old in one big group.  Some seperate them into 2-3 groups.  Some have
a better teacher/infant ratio than others.  The price can also vary
from town to town.  The family daycare often offer different setting
than daycare center.  It can be more personal but less structural.  Once
you visit a few, you will be able to decide which onces that you feel
most comfortable with.  Also, I will definitely re-visit the places after
your baby is born.  You will definitely have a new set of issues to 
consider.  It is also very important to see how care giver interact with
your baby.

Good luck with your search.  

Wendy Chang

In article <1943@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates) writes:
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|> From: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
|> Newsgroups: misc.kids
|> Subject: Re: Daycare -- when to investigate?
|> Message-ID: <1943@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
|> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 16:27:23 GMT-0:09
|> References: <2338@gandalf.intel.com>
|> Reply-To: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
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|> In article <2338@gandalf.intel.com> ariel@mom.uucp (Ariel Shattan) writes:
|> >
|> >My first child is due in January, and I intend to take full advantage
|> >of my company's liberal leave policies, but the time will 
|> >come when I'll need to install the little darling in a daycare
|> >situation and return to work.  
|> >
|> >What I'm wondering is, when do I start investigating childcare
|> >options?  Do I start now?  Do I start N months before I'll need the
|> >service? Does whether I'm able to return to work part time for a while
|> >(I don't know yet if I can) have any bearing on when I start looking
|> >for childcare?
|> >
|> My wife and I had plans to start investigating day care about three months
|> before our second child was born (she was home with the first one, but we 
|> knew we would need day care for at least the time she was in the hospital).
|> Well, wouldn't you know it -- she started into labor at six months, before
|> we hadd looked into any day cares. She ended up in the hospital for two 
|> months (having mild contraction almost the entire time, but that's another
|> story) before Justin was born. I ended up having to take Sarah to a day care
|> that was recommended by a friend. We had not had time to check it (or any
|> other places) out. One of the hardest things I have ever had to do was to
|> drop Sarah off that first day in the care of people we hadn't even met until
|> then.
|> 
|> I would suggest that you start looking into day care as early as possible.
|> You never know what might happen.