DW1978
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Some of you may remember, a while back I posted saying that my Dad and his wife had offered to look after the baby for us when I was first pregnant and then suddenly pulled out a couple of months ago. Well, I have been trying to find a suitable childminder of nursery ever since and I'm having a nightmare. My aunt, who has retired has very kindly offered to help out for two days a week for free so that will help us massively but we still need to fill the other 3 days. I went to have a look at a nursery up the road from our house about 4 weeks ago but it was £6.15 per hour (£43.05/day, £129.15/week) with no meals included and they don't take the children on outings or anything. The nursery/pre-school that Lennon went to was much nicer, probably around the same price, but it was a brand new purpose built building, the children were provided with 3 meals a day (lunch and dinner both cooked) and they were taken on outings to the park, walks, swimming and when old enough, French lessons. It was so lovely. We can't take the baby there though as I want baby looked after from 8.15-3.30pm (school hours) but that nusery charge you for a morning 7.30-1pm, an afternoon 1-6pm or the whole day so we would be paying a fortune for 3 full days (£65.50/day, £196.50/week). I've spoken to 3 childminders so far and none of them have space and another one I phoned just never seems to answer her phone. I thought I had sorted one and was really happy as she was my original first choice (the girl that used to look after Lennon at the lovely nursery) but she's come back to me this morning and said she has the vacancy now and cannot wait until April to take on another child (cost £5.50/hour, £39.88/day, £119.64/week).
I just don't know what to do. I have a list of registered childminders but I've been through all the addresses of the ones who do have room for a baby and there is litterally only 1 who would be suitable (a couple of them live in dodgy estates and a couple of them live in tiny one way streets which have no parking and get extremely busy at work times as they are right in the town centre so they would be a nightmare in the mornings).
I'm just getting so fed up with this, I don't know what else to do. I could cry. I feel so worried that I am running out of time and still don't have anything sorted and no light at the end of the tunnel either. I feel really trapped that we are going to have to end up with someone we don't like or trust
I just don't know what to do. I have a list of registered childminders but I've been through all the addresses of the ones who do have room for a baby and there is litterally only 1 who would be suitable (a couple of them live in dodgy estates and a couple of them live in tiny one way streets which have no parking and get extremely busy at work times as they are right in the town centre so they would be a nightmare in the mornings).
I'm just getting so fed up with this, I don't know what else to do. I could cry. I feel so worried that I am running out of time and still don't have anything sorted and no light at the end of the tunnel either. I feel really trapped that we are going to have to end up with someone we don't like or trust
