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While I did not have a long waiting time, the main issue was coverage. It was covid time and the nurseries were offering at most 3 days a week (while I was looking a service for 5 days a week). I gradually manage to increment to 4 days and…

Long waiting times at quality day care centers was the primary challenge for me. I have had to reduce my work hours or work late in the night to provide child care in combination with a part time nanny. Also, when the child is sick (which h…

I paid a deposit for a spot at the daycare when I was about 4 months pregnant, as there could have been a significant wait had I not. Fortunately for those living in my area, the current daycare that we use is expanding to a second location…

I was very fortunate that affordability was never an issue – rather, we had the opposite problem, we would rather have spent less time jockeying for position on waitlists. The biggest challenge is assessing whether a program is good (and go…

Probably waiting times. This essentially forced us away from a nearby affordable center toward a more distant (and more "high-end") option. This cost is OK, but the pick-up/drop-off time becomes a little cumbersome, which makes me work from…

Quality of care, lack of back up, hard to find reliable babysitters. Luckily both of us are academics and we had to rely on flexible schedules to cover gaps, but that also meant working strange hours

Having two children has certainly impacted my work output and my mental well-being quite substantially, but childcare wasn't the issue. But then, my setup is very fortunate.

Cost and hours of availability were our biggest issues. As an academic i had to be the one to leave early since my job had more flexibility but it meant I'd have to make up the time elsewhere

Price and trust. Answered above.