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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.
I'm so stressed :(
I know I don't post here much but I thought some of you might understand. I'm so stressed about finding childcare for DS. He is not even five months old yet and I'm already having so much anxiety about it and about going back to work. I don't want to go back to my old job - the pay is not great and there are a lot of evenings and weekends. I don't want to put him in daycare - I'd prefer to get a nanny but it's so expensive. Every night I lie in bed thinking about it and I am in tears at least once a day. I want to enjoy my time with him but the stress is just getting to be. 
Re: I'm so stressed :(
It can be hard to find someone that you trust. Have you tried WeeWatch?
We got the last spot at our in home daycare when I was about 5 months along. I was shocked at some of the waiting lists for the daycare centers. One here has an 18-24m waiting list. INSANE.
We found ours through a recommendation from a colleague. Do you have any coworkers that you could ask?
I know how you feel. I went through a similar period of stress before I came to the scary decision to not return to work. I'm fortunate enough that I can earn enough supplementary income through freelance work to keep us afloat.
I don't really have any suggestions beyond what Jen said, but I do wish you lots of luck in finding something that's exactly right for you and your son.
This is what SIL did, she ruled out the ones with bad spelling and grammar, had a nice list of 5 or 6 a few blocks from home and found a really great dayhome. She actually said some days she thinks he's better off at the day home then her home! He has two little friends he looks forward to seeing and he's very happy when she picks him up, maybe if you meet a few you'll feel better about it?
And I thought SIL was nuts to wait to find a place but it seems dayhomes are easier to find then daycare, she didn't start looking until he was 10 months. So you do have time.