Hi all, was hoping for some advice on nurseries vs childminders for a 12 month old. We are so undecided! We like the structure, safety aspects and checks and balances of a nursery but we’re worried about staff turnover, lack of connection between staff and the kids, and illness. We do like the idea of a childminder who’d bond with our baby and it’s a smaller, more intimate setting etc, but find it hard to understand how one childminder could easily manage 4 young babies alone? Like how does it work? I know this is the legal ratio but in nurseries when there are multiple staff it seems more manageable?!
Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated! First time mum and highly anxious about the whole thing 😕 thank you!