Hi. I'm going to go back to work when my baby (as yet unborn) is 13 months old. I'll probably be working 4 days a week, one of those days from home - but I'll still need to be fairly undisturbed so we're talking 4 days a week as the primary carer.
After the baby's born and before I go back to work we'll be moving somewhere bigger. We need to decide what to do about childcare as this affects the size of the place we move into (if we go with an au-pair we'll need an extra,nice,big bedroom).
I love the idea of an au-pair then you don't need to worry about late fees at nurseries or getting the baby ready to go out in the morning when they'd rather be playing or even sleeping but I've heard rumours that au-pairs don't look after children under 3 or 4.
What's the story? Has anyone successfully allowed an au-pair to look after their under 2 year old?
Thanks