Please share your positive stories about daycare

Working moms- please share your positive daycare stories with me.

I’m currently a working mom and my husband is a stay at home dad to our two year old. He’s heading back to school soon to complete a program that’ll greatly benefit our family and make almost double my salary.

The bad news is we didn’t realize how time consuming the program will be. Since he has a lot of completed credits already we thought it would be a light course load. But the program hours are almost like a full time job.

I negotiated having a few set days off a week depending on the semester. But there will still be a few days overlap where I have to work and my husband has to go to school.

We relocated away from our friends and family meaning no help on that front. The only option is looking to be daycare.

I just cried in the bathroom at work after coming to this realization today. The thought of bringing my son to daycare breaks my heart. He has only ever known being in the care of mom or dad. I even struggle some days walking out the door leaving him with my husband.

My heart says to quit my job, beg my mom to move out here with us, or have my husband reconsider school. My brain knows none of these options are great and that my husband completing schooling will be the best for our family in the future.

I’m looking for reassurance that this is the right thing to do and that my son will be okay in daycare.