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May 3, 2012 5:48 PM   Subscribe

Infant daycare recommendations around Boston?

I have been home with baby mooselini since her birth in December. Now it is time to start work again (at a new place) and I am looking at daycares around Boston, Somerville, Cambridge area where I can get to without a car, those that do not have year long waiting list, and those that do not cost 2,500/month (thank you, Bright Horizons for that). Unfortunately that narrows down the pool of possibilities quite a bit, and I have a bit over a month to find it. First time parent paranoia aside, I am want the best for my kid and those cheaper daycares I've looked at have pretty unclean/unsafe conditions for my special-snowflake baby.

Any recommendations are welcome.

PS. After long consideration we've decided against au pairs/nannies.
posted by mooselini to Grab Bag (3 answers total)
 
In-home daycare are the only places that will not cost that much. I'd guess.
I'd also suggest using your neighborhood listserv, asking people with kids in your neighborhood. You're bound to hear about these In-home options from those sources. IME, most in-homes don't have a web presence.

And FWIW, we found the nanny route easier in a large city.
posted by k8t at 6:15 PM on May 3, 2012


We used TSC Child Care Center on Kendall Sq and were quite happy with them. I remember them being cheaper than Bright Horizons though not a whole lot for a full-time slot.
posted by Dragonness at 6:56 PM on May 3, 2012


Yeah, Boston infant care is crazy expensive and a lot of the decent places have waiting lists, I work in Cambridge, but have my kid in daycare in Woburn because the price drops a bunch by being that far out of the city. Your only choices really are to find an in home daycare, pay a large cost, or go out of the city a bit. If you end up in Woburn, I can recommend a couple around here.
posted by katers890 at 12:41 PM on May 4, 2012


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