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Your Ultimate Guide to Back-To-Work Childcare Options

How to Choose the Right Childcare for Your Family When Returning To Work:

Congratulations! You’re a new parent! And … you’re headed back to work soon. (Ugh.) Moreover, if you’re like most of my readers, you live in the United States – the only major industrialized nation without guaranteed paid parental leave. Which means you’re now scrambling to figure out your back to work childcare options for your weeks-old newborn.

Or perhaps your bundle of joy hasn’t arrived yet, and you’re trying to plan ahead for what to do when that little one comes home with you. But you’re already realizing that not only is the U.S. way behind the curve on paid parental leave, it’s also way behind other countries in access to affordable child care.

And moving your whole family to one of the countries with the best paid maternity leave plans isn’t in the cards. (Nor, for that matter, is relocating to one of the few U.S. states that mandates paid leave through state law.)

What’s a parent to do?

Until the U.S. catches up with the rest of the industrialized world, this one is on YOU to figure out, parents.

Like many of you, my husband and I once found ourselves trying to figure out how we were going to have two parents working with an infant underfoot. We’ve also watched countless friends, family members, and neighbors try to cobble together their own solutions over time. And it’s neither pretty, nor for the faint of heart.

Hence this post – your ultimate guide to back to work childcare options for parents.

 

For those of us living in the United States, good back-to-work childcare options can be hard to find. This comprehensive guide covers all your choices.

 

This is a collaboration post. However, please know I stand behind everything written here, and only include links to products/services/resources I’m willing to recommend personally.

Your Guide to Back To Work Child Care Options:

1. Private care in your home (sitter/nanny/au pair)

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2. Private care in someone else’s home

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3. A licensed daycare facility

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4. Recruiting relatives, neighbors, friends, etc.

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And finally, if you’re lucky enough to be able to swing this,

5. Flex scheduling

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Your turn:

Have you and your family faced the back-to-work childcare dilemma? If so, where did you end up? Which solution did you choose, and (more importantly) why? Let us know in the comments!

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