Choosing the right childcare for your precious wee baby is a very hard decision that we parents (especially moms, imo) really tend to stress over. It is so heartbreaking to think of letting your child be cared for by someone other than yourself. After a year (if you're Canadian. I know some of my American counterparts get a max of 6 weeks?!?! What kind of craziness is that!?) of staying at home on maternity leave and spending all your time with your child, going back to work is scary.
For childcare for our son we decided to go with a private, unregulated, unregistered day home. My best friend works at a daycare and she had told me way too many horror stories (no diaper changes all day unless the kid poops, mold in the bathrooms, staff giving kids candy to get them to be quiet, etc., etc.) for me to think that was a good idea. Plus, my work schedule is irregular. I needed a place that would keep my son until 7pm every night and feed him dinner. Luckily, a friend of a friend was opening a new day home right when I was looking so we had a meeting and decided to give it a go.
My son has been very happy there and I know he was well fed and that the day home lady truly cared for him. However, she is now pregnant again and we had to find a new place to go. She recommended a sister of one of her friends and we gave the new place a try while our current lady was on vacation. Baby B LOVED it there! I thought he was happy before, but holy crap. He screams in crazed excitement as soon as the new person's home comes into view and he cries when I pick him up because he doesn't want to leave.
My problem is that I had previously told our current lady that we would return after she was done her maternity leave, but now that Baby B enjoys the new place so much I want to keep him there. I don't know how to tell her that we won't be coming back. She has been so sweet to us and has become a good friend of mine. She's also the sister-in-law of my best friend. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but I have to do what's right for my boy. *sigh*
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