Our £1,000 nursery bill and relying on grandparents is preventing us from having a second child 👶💬 'I wish I could give my mum more, to compensate her losing out on a day's pay each week to look after her grandson,' says Natalie Ford
Luckily my mum, who still works, has offered to drop down from four days a week at work to three so she could help us out for two days. She’s lost a lot of a lot of income through it, although she would never say that that this was a burden or anything.
I’m grateful that the nursery is brilliant. We looked at childminders and it wasn’t a massive cost saving and as I’m a very wary, careful person I was thinking that if he’s in someone’s house, how will I know if they’re putting him in front of the telly all day? At the nursery, they do crafts, they go on walks and lots of activities using their imagination. He’s also spending lots of time with a mix of children, which is good, because we can’t afford another child.
Finding out about the cost and logistics of childcare and how to manage that with our jobs has been a real shock. While we were trying to get pregnant, it was something that was on my mind, how we’d make it work, and I spoke to family and tried to gauge what my mum would be able to do. My husband’s mother is not very well, she’s on dialysis three times a week, so she wasn’t able to help us unfortunately. So we were kind of stuck.
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