Booking a nursery place when you don't know working hours

[Alexa1989]

Where I live we need to book a nursery place 12-18 months in advance. That means starting to look before dc is born.

We both work FT, but are both planing to ask for a reduction in hours during parental leave so we would hopefully only need 2-3days of childcare. We won't know what the days are or how many days until closer to when we go back after leave

Should we go in with the view that we arrange a full-time place, can you typically reduce the days before/once they've started. Anyone else been in this position, what did you do?

That’s exactly what we did just ensure you tell them within a months notice (or whatever the contract says) so you don’t pay for days you don’t need

My DC nursey reserved a full time spot (unless you were specific you only wanted X day or Y). Then you confirmed a month before , I think it’s quite common

We did the same, booked a full time place so all days were saved and then closer to the time (about a month before!) told them we only needed 3 days 😊

Yup ask for 5 days a week, then closer to the time once you know your working hours, just call them and tell them you now only need 3 days.