Minneapolis/St. Paul Nesties
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.
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.
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.
Daycare Costs?
With a recent promotion at work...I have babies on the mind. DH and I plan to start trying in a year but I would like to know the average cost per week for child care?
I know a year seems like a little early but I'm a big planner (was engaged almost two years). Knowing how much to expect to pay for child care will let me know how much we need to save before we should start trying.
I know the area affects the cost so; we live near Wayzata/Minnetonka area but I work in Rogers so it would be anywhere from Minnetonka, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Rogers area.
Re: Daycare Costs?
my read shelf:
I am with you on being a planner! When my son was an infant we paid $190 a week in N. Maple Grove at an in-home daycare. When he turned two we switched to a center on Maple Grove/Champlin border and paid $250 a week (that is with a 10% discount) until he was around 2 1/2 and then it dropped to $220 a week (again with a discount). I have the rate sheet for the center and the infant rate is $390 a week :0 Needless to say this is why I passed on a center when he was an infant because we need full time care and this is A LOT of money!
I have a friend that paid around $160 a week for in home daycare in Rogers so the inhome rate drops a lot the farther out you go.
When I was looking at centers pretty much every one offered a 10% discount if one of the parents work for certain companies (pretty much all the big local ones).
We just got a new rate sheet for our center. Infant rates are:
5 days - $322
4 days - $296
3 days - $261
2 days - $196
1 day - $109
We went with a center vs. in-home, for a variety of reasons, including flexibility (our center is open 6:30-6:30 and we can change our schedule every week), availability of more than one or two adults at a time (something I was very thankful for when Liv hurt herself there last week), reliability - I will never get a call in the am that my daycare lady is sick and daycare is closed that day. We are lucky that we have an awesome center, where Livie adores her teacher.
In-homes will run you $160-$200/week, depending on what you find.
There are pluses and minuses to both though!
Good luck with your decision on TTC
A Little Bird and a Monkey Butt
Thanks ladies! DC is definitely a lot cheaper than I thought. I figured it would be somewhere around $400 a week.
I wish we could start now
but DH is the sensible one and wants to save, I bet I will thank him someday for that!
The woman that we are planning to use PT for the girls charges $225/week for an infant on a FT basis.
ETA: She is in Minnetonka and runs an in-home center, but is moving to a new location outside of her home.
Also ETA: Might want to budget for twins. LOL! I know I didn't take that into consideration! Mine were spontaneous so it can happen to anyone.
oh there are places you could find for four hundred a week. my cousin works for a big name center and she said they base the rates off of the property values and income levels of the area where the center is located. there are three centers in our immediate area they are three eleven, three fifty seven, and four oh two...we drive ten miles out of our way for two hundred at a center.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
Nicole and Sam 10/3/09
The most expensive center I found was Kinderberry Hill. If I remember right, they were about $1900/month. They do have a nurse on staff full time. Second most expensive was Primrose- rates vary by location but are about $340/week. We chose a center because of the hours and that there would be more eyes on our little one. We pay $265/week but it looks like that rate has increased to $280. Our center is in Minnetonka/Wayzata. PM if you want more specifics.
GL.... I thought the daycare search was the hardest thing to do.