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MissCandice 
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 3:30pm |
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I am returning to work on the 3rd March. Kylah will be almost 7 months old. Has anyone used home based care? I will only need it for 1 day of the week for 6 hours? What is it like and what does it cost?
Or am i better off putting her in daycare?
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baalamb
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 5:04pm |
We use home based childcare, and have since I started working last year in about July/August-ish. So far, so good! Ashlee's a really social butterfly anyway so I don't have to worry too much because I know she loves it a lot. We pay $7 per hour but they do request a minimum of 12 hours a week (with this particular company). That's a bit of a pain for us as we really only need about 6-8 hours also, so we're spending extra money that we could be saving, really, but she enjoys it.
That said, Ashlee will go into a daycare when she's 2. She's on the waiting list for one already. It's cheaper and closer to someone who can pick her up at the end of the day.
I think home based is great for the age that Kylah will be 
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 5:18pm |
I don't know if you would be able to find a daycare that would have her only for 6 hours a week. Most have a minimum of 3 6 hour days a week.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 5:25pm |
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Oh really? I didnt think of that!
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 5:43pm |
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We use a Home educator for 2 days a week, works really well for us (except trying to sort out a new carer for next week but that's another story). So far it has been a good experience as Fay has socialised with the carers family and the other children. Check the child to carer ratio's, the company we use it is a miaximum of four children with a maximum of 2 under 2, but as I found out on tuesday the local council rule that if you have more than 3 children under 7 it makes you a business and need resource consent, so out Fay goes as she was last in, and I am in a bit of a panic for next week. That is by the by tho, but it does highlight a drawback, if you are in a centre based situation if a carer leaves it does not affect your child, but if your home based educator leaves, you have to resettle your child in a new environment, with new people which I hope is not too disrupting.
I love the personal touch from having home based care tho, it's always the same person you see and they really get to know your child.
and yep we have the minimum of 12 hours care a week, so we get by with our 17 hours, it pays to shop around the local agencies tho, as they may have different rules
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 5:43pm |
Sorry about the essay, just a subject close to my heart this week. 
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 6:08pm |
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I think most daycares will have a minimum requirement - the one that Gina goes to, the minimum is 2 full time days a week.
Sorry don't know much about home based care as we chose to go the daycare way.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 6:27pm |
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Being an early childhood teacher myself, I personally think that babies of that age are much better off in home based care. Then they only have one caregiver they need to bond with, you don't have to wonder/worry about who is taking care of your child each day, and they will get much more individual attention.
Having said that of course finances come into account and childcare centres are generally cheaper.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 8:31pm |
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I as a home based carer love giving all the attention to just one baby. Check out the home based carer options
near you.
when i do home based care I take babies/toddlers to music and movement groups and playgroups.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 8:33pm |
Ella started in home based care about a month ago- we both love it . I personally wasn't that keen of putting her in a daycare at such a young age and really liked the idea of being able to choose exactly who looked after my baby. Our educator is absolutely lovely and loves Ella to bits. She also has her 3 year old son at home and 6 year old daugher (during school hols), but apart from that is only looking after Ella, so she gets heaps of individual attention. Also she is able to stick to Ella's routine and because she is with her all the time is able to notice if she is little bit more tired than usual and needs to sleep a bit longer- for instance on Tues Ella was really clingy in the afternoon so she gave me a call later on in the evening just to make that Ella was alright (which I though was really nice).
Ella still gets some socialisation as the 3 & 6 year old love playing with Ella, but she also gets the individual attention that she needs. The plan is we will probably continue with home based care until she is 2, then put her into daycare.
Also the advantage with home based, is that you can basically choose your hours and if you working parttime it works out cheaper (at least it did for us)- I pay $4.50 an hr.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 8:50pm |
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My friend has her daughter in Daycare for only one day a week I think she is only in there for about 6 hours too.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 10:04pm |
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When we were in Gisborne we were on the wiating list for the YMCA daycare. They had a HUGE waiting list so had started a homebased care system as well as the daycare. Same price, similar activities and same criteria for being a carer. Maybe a daycare in your area does the same thing. We had Taine down (when he was younger) and then we planned to move him to the daycare when he was two, and there was a place.
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Posted: 06 February 2008 at 10:16pm |
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For what my two cents is worth I have heard through numerous friends that the In-home based childcare, I believe they call it 'Porse' - is meant to be REALLY good. They only take maximum of 4 babies so that way your child gets full attention (moreso than being at daycare centre) and they only have the one carer that they will form a bond with over a matter of time!
I can safely say ALL my friends who at one point put their children into daycare have now removed them and gone back to being SAHM's or have placed them in the Porse programme, their children were constantly getting sick and they were having to take time off work which defeated the whole purpose of putting them in daycare in the first place i guess.
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 8:37am |
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We use Kidstart thru Barnardos and it is awesome and I cannot reccomend it highly enough. We have used it for over 2 years, with the same carer. Only $4.50 an hour too, which is great as we don't qualify for subsidies. Only allowed 4 kids, 2 under 2 and 2 over, and have MOE guidelines to follow. Our carer takes Jake to playgroups, Music etc. Minimum of 9 hours a week, though.
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 9:18am |
We used Jemmas (at first when through Porse, but they were so slow it getting back to me and keeping on mucking us around and Jemmas was so it and found me someone in a couple of days). Jemmas doesn't have a minimum numbers of hrs per week and their ratio is the same as the others mentioned- 4 child max, 2 under 2's and only 1 little baby.
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 10:01am |
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I've also heard good things about Porse but I emailed them ages ago and havent heard from them.
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 12:06pm |
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Porse out here in Howick are wonderful
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 2:12pm |
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I returned to work (fulltime) when Ollie was 5 months old and we used home-based care. It was awesome! The company we used have a limit of 4 children at a time per carer. He went to gym, music and playgroups. He bonded really well with both carers he had (his first moved to Chch) and I liked that he had the same carer everyday - it made me feel more secure and I think he probably settled quicker. The company we used only charges $4.00 per hour. When I have to go back to work after this bubs I'll definitely be giving them a call, I'm really hoping that his old carer will be available!
I think that homebased care would be a little more flexible with their hours too. Best of luck, I think homebased care is a great option particularly for younger babies.
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Posted: 07 February 2008 at 9:25pm |
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Rachel has done a thread on starting some home based care. maybe you guys could sort something out. I know my preschool have a minimum of two sessions which can be made of one full day or two half days.
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