Daycare or Nanny

My 9 month old has been in daycare for 2 months. We love her teacher. The daycare is 25 minutes away but we’ve been generally really happy with it. Recently, things have gotten a bit more hectic as there are a lot of new faces both new kiddos and teachers. There seems to be a lot more crying and her lead teacher seems more stressed than usual. Sure we’ve been sick, but we expected that. We now have an option to do a nanny. An old college friend posted that she’s looking for another family for her part time nanny. She speaks really highly of the nanny who she has known for 3 years since her oldest was 3 months. I’m torn as it took me a while to find the right daycare and I just now became comfortable with the idea of daycare. This kind of fell in my lap. What would you do and why?
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I like daycare because my kids are able to get used to other people. I like that they get to interact with kids their own age. I basically like that they get to be more social.... oh and small children cry, you're going to see crying in a daycare, especially when warming up to new teachers (the kids aren't even school age yet) But if you aren't comfortable I say go with the nanny

My son was in daycare He loved it There will always be changes staff come and go, new kids The * good * thing is the interaction with other children ,other ppl Aka getting use to new adults As your child grows they will make heaps of friends ,half my sons daycare friends now go to his school But if you prefer a nanny that's your choice But don't pull your child out of daycare cold Turkey, coz if you don't like her ,to get back into daycare will take forever you'll be on the waiting list Give it shot

I did this exact same thing and pulled my son out. I said when he starts walking it will be better, even tho we loved the daycare, and had a friend start coming to my home to nanny. She ended up randomly backing out after like 3 weeks and I had to go crawling back to the daycare praying he would take me back. After that we stayed at the daycare for another 2 years. My son learned so much and was way more advanced than other kids his age that didn’t go to school. Now he’s been out of daycare for 6 months as I’m a SAHM with his new baby brother. Truly, if you don’t use it you lose it and I’m interested in getting him back in school a couple days a week. Long story long I think daycare, especially a Montessori type gig is where it’s at for littles. They got my baby off a pacifier got him on a good schedule and he learned so much.

If you really like the daycare I would probably just stay with the daycare.

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