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what is the cost of daycare?
I was wondering what the going rate for good daycare runs in okc. What about other baby expenses.
Re: what is the cost of daycare?
The daycares we looked at ranged from $150-$175/week (this is the prices for an infant). The most expensive were centers. We ended up going with an in home daycare but will be putting her in a center sometime this year. We have priced the centers again (she is now 2) and the prices do go down when they get older. I would think that OKC would be about the same range as Norman.
The other baby expenses I think it depends on whether you are planning on breastfeed or formula feed and also if you want to use disposables vs. cloth. The huge chunk of our money goes to daycare each month.
We don't pay if M is not attending that day. Our DCP gives us 10 vacation days but she also have paid vacation for herself (she doesn't take it all at one time). I'm sure it varies from place to place though.
The center DD used to go still charged you if your kid was gone a whole week (or two), but it wasn't the full rate. I'm guessing this is different for every provider.
I definitely agree. I think it depends on the choices you make, what your taste is, and to some extent, just chance. With DS, I exclusively breastfed, cloth diapered, bought clothes at consignment sales and received most of the big stuff we needed/used as gifts. Because of all of that and that fact that he has fortunately been very, very healthy, most of the cost involved when he was an infant was from his delivery itself. The only really significant cost we've had lately was when we upgraded to a very safe, high quality car seat when he outgrew the rear-facing limit in the first convertible seat we'd purchased.
I agree too. V was pretty price, mostly because his medical bills for his first year were through the roof. M was pretty cheap though. I already had cloth diapers from V and just got a few cute girly ones because I wanted to (totally didn't need them though), I breastfed, and we just used all the stuff we had from V (carseat, swing, etc). We did get her clothes, but that was about it.
With this baby, the only thing we really need to spend money on is the birth. I have all the diapers and clothes from the other kids so we are pretty set there.
ETA: assuming this child is healthy. Like I said V was not and his medical bills were high, but M was healthy so we didn't spend anything on her for medical (aside from copays which we don't have with our new insurance).