We are currently applying for nurseries for August when Ds is due to be thirteen months. I know we should have applied earlier, and it sounds silly saying it, but we didn't because he was in neonatal care and everything felt so touch and go that we couldn't plan for a future we were terrified wouldn't be.
One nursery we asked about has thirteen children for nine places. Another has eighty children for forty places, although this is throughout the nursery rather than in the room he'll be in. Another hasn't told us their waiting list, just we've been added.
We have two offers from nurseries which are not ideal (not great locations for our walking commutes, no car and one of these doesn't do lunch.) Wondering if we should grab one of these when we can or hang on for one of the other three.
The one we want most is the one with a waiting list of eighty. I'm stupidly hoping some folk might drop off along the way.