excellent CM where i live but moving home....

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i need advice. I have the perfect cm for my 10 month old dd. My dd has mild/moderate excema and is a fussy eater and this cm has just taken it all in her stride and given me full confidence in her.

my dilema is that i am moving 20 minutes drive away. as apposed to a short walk now. would you move dd to a local cm who would then take her to pre-school etc or stick with this one till she is older and more 'flexible' and hence easier to leave with a new CM closer to enetering pre-school.
it will be impossible for my current CM to take her to school and pick her up ( i presume) because she picks up other children, so even if i stay now i will have to move her in a year or so??? (actually when do they start school/preschool?)

It will mean an ealier start in the mornings etc and of course this will mean more hassle but i love this CM. should i just bite the bullet and move her now or wait?

My very first reaction was to stick with the childminder that you know, but only because your dd is only 10 months old and is obviously settled there, and you are happy.

I had a family who already drove across the town to drop their children with me, and then moved to a village even further away (20 minutes drive on a good day!). They still brought their children to me until they started school, as there was no way I could do their school run. They still come to me for a week at Easter and a week in the summer holidays as a "treat"!!

I would stick with the current one - my dd is 4 and in school nursery but would have stayed with her cm until she gave me notice last year that she was giving it up. You could pick a new one who may change her circumstances and then have to move your child again! Round here they can start school nursery at 3 but are more usual in the Spetember ater they are 3 - could she not go to the local nursery and then move to her regular school or reception. You have at least another 2 years beore pre-school and by then they may do wraparound care - ours looks after them from 8 to 6 each day for 50 weeks a year - she loves it!