do people who have 2 kids work? and what sort of childcare do you have?

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considering options ds went to a nursery but might niot be affordablke with 2 kids, wsondered what everyone else does.

we ahd a childminder

Yes, loads of us do.

Childminder here. Other people use nurseries, nannies, nanny-shares...the whole gamut, really.

Pass the parcel method here (the parcel being the child).

Mixture of nursery & grandparents

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We used nursery until eldest went to school (it cost me more than I was earning), and then for a short while had a very part-time nanny for school run plus nursery for younger child plus changed my working hours so I could do school pick up most days.
Since then we have had a nanny-share and we are now looking for a childminder

Preschool & childminder

ds, who is 9, goes to breakfast club and then afterschool club at school (about £180 pcm)
dd, who is 3, goes to nursery full time (£660 pcm)

Did have two at nursery, now nursery and afterschool club.

Combination of school, grandparents and both me and dh alternately working from home.

Nursery and childminder mix so they get the best of both worlds - and strangly it works out cheaper (might help that my sis is a registered childminder so i get a slightly reduced rate

big child is at school, little one is at nursery 2 days & with grandma 1 day.

actuaaly now that i work 2 daus it is a combination of school/childmindwer for ds1 and grandma fir ds2

My two are both at school and then after school club til 4:30pm. Works out at about £80 a month, term time only (I am a teacher). Only been back FT this academic year now both are at school. Used a mixture of childminder, Granny and after school club previously! It is possible but hard work. Now Granny is reserved for child illness, which is thankfully infrequent. Hope you work it out.

Similar to others - mixture.

DS (4) is at school, DD (6 months) at nursery 2 days and grandparents 2 days. I only work 4 'short' (6 hr) days so can pick up DS from school (or alternatively DH picks up DS if I'm running late). I work at home for 2 of the 4 days so this avoids the commuting time which allows me to pick up DS.

Am knackered, obviously, but we can't afford for me to be a SAHM and TBH, my brain was rather needing the stimulus of work after 6 months of maternity leave....but take my hat off to those who manage to go back full-time .

HTH

Real mixture over the years from nanny to nursery, childminder to granny. Currently dh is a sahd for a couple of months

I had a nanny, it worked out about the same 2 nursery places although I nearly fainted when I worked out what I had to earn to pay her salary. she is fantastic and unfortunately is moving to Australia at the end of this week leaving me working part time in the business with no childcare

My two were in nursery (luckily the nursery offered a second child discount, a corporate discount with my employer and I bought child care vouchers which saved me loads on tax).
If considering a nursery look into whether they offer any form of discounts and definitley look into childcare vouchers. Gave up work last July but purely because my job was mind numbingly boring.

of course it's do-able. my three are all at school now, with after school care, which makes everything easy peasy! I've had one in school with two in full-time nursery, only possible because of child tax credit and childcare tax credit. If i didn't have either of those i couldn't work. I'd be on income support.

I'd love to be able to pick my kids up from school, but it just it's financially viable.

childcare is so depressingly expensive.

Nursery - although wages often less than childcare costs

But worth it!

Used a nursery 1.5 days a week + help from grandparents 1 day a week. The the oldest started school so that helped financially. I prefer the safety aspect of a nursery, qualifications, hours, structure, knowing where your child is at all times etc and reliability. Had a childminder previously, one was fantastic, the next was controlling.

Going back to work soon after my third and the two youngest will be in nursery again.

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Dh works nights, nursery and grandmother.

DS goes to nursery and a friend has DD but she is at school full time so that only costs £10 a day and DH picks her up at 5 just after he gets DS.

All in all it costs me £50 a day just to go to work whcih considering I only work 2 days is pretty depressing!!