[House] San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion forum digest - 6/15/2015

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San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion 6/14/2015
9:15 am - 6/15/2015

1. Expectant Mom Needs Advice (dgsantos16)
2. Comment: Expectant Mom Needs Advice (jessicafsf)

1. Expectant Mom Needs Advice
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dgsantos16 - 6/14/2015 9:33 am

 Hi there,We're expecting identical girls this October
 (read September). They're our first. I have two areas
 of advice I'm looking for today.1. Cloth diapers - did
 you use them? How realistic is it with two? What do
 you recommend? There are so many choices, I'm not sure
 where to start.2. Childcare for three days a week. 
 What is the usual cost difference between daycare and
 in home care (nanny) when there are two? I've also
 thought about nanny share, but am not sure that people
 want to go into nanny share with twins.Thank you in
 advance for your help!Denise and Jeremy

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 2. jessicafsf says...
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 6/14/2015 10:05 pm
 
 Congrats Denise! For cloth diapers, I can't speak to
 them because we didn't use them. I was planning to use
 a compostable diaper service (Earth Baby), but then the
 kids came unexpectedly early (I know you're supposed to
 expect it, but we really didn't) and I sort of lost
 track of things, and we just ended up using disposable.
 But I know there are people in the group who definitely
 used cloth, so it's totally doable. Hopefully one of
 them will chime in.For childcare, we looked into a
 couple of daycares, and found that the price was about
 the same as getting our own nanny, and the fact that
 there were a lot of holidays made it actually a little
 more expensive (since I'd have to pay for care those
 days). My schedule was a little weird in that we needed
 a nanny 4 days/week, and two of the days were only 7
 hours (and the other two were 10). A daycare doesn't
 charge differently for 3/4 of a day, while a nanny
 does, since you're just paying for the hours she's
 there. So that impacted our costs most would prefer full time work.
We
 even had one person accept the position and then quit
 (well before she started) when she was offered a job
 with more hours. Daycares also vary a lot in price,
 depending on whether you go with a bigger, corporate
 daycare, or find a smaller, home based place. A nanny
 is more convenient, since you don't have to pack up the
 kids (and bottles/food/clothes, etc.) and take them
 somewhere every day - she just shows up at your door.
 And can usually help with at least kid related chores
 (i.e., kid laundry, dishes, etc.) But there are also
 the costs of having people home all day (heating,
 water, food, etc.) and if you end up offering benefits
 (sick days, vacation days) that's also additional
 expense. I didn't find any situation where someone
 wanted to do a nanny share with 3 kids. Another thing
 to consider is that a nanny doing a share with 3 kids
 might charge something like $30/hour, in which case
 you'd pay $20... and you can probably find your own
 nanny for not much more than that, and not deal with
 the logistics of a share. Anyway, not sure any of this
 is helpful; hopefully you'll get some other responses.
 Are you a member of the Facebook group? It's worth
 posting there; some people are more active there than
 on BigTent.Good luck!
 Email author: jessica at burrows.net
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