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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Childcare options?
Hi all! I recently moved to Evanston and am expecting my first child in June. I started looking into childcare in the area and am getting a bit nervous! Every center I called has quite a long waiting list. I am on a waiting list for the Childcare Network of Evanston for inhome. They also put me in touch with Action for Children to give me a list of referals I could work with for both inhome and centerbased. I guess I am a little shocked at the lack of openings in the area! Back home this wasn't a problem, so I am a bit shocked and nervous we aren't going to find anyone. Anyone have any reccomendations? Craigslist has scared me 
Re: Childcare options?
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Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find any openings.
You can also try joining NPN parents www.npnparents.org and posting to see if anyone knows of any openings. We found our nanny through that site. We have been on daycare waiting lists since before I even hit 20 weeks and my son is now 7 months old and still NO openings at those centers.
You might also try http://www.naeyc.org/
It is the National Association for the Education of Young Children and they list a lot of centers in Evanston that are members. It might be a good resource for some centers you have not tried. And to be a member, NAEYC has some standards that must be met which may give you some additional peace of mind.