Email said (paraphrasing): we recognize your child has aged out, but if you have a younger child who is still daycare age, your family's turn is finally here!
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Recently, my husband got an email that they finally have a spot open at a Toronto daycare where we got put on a wait list while I was pregnant. Child is now 11yo.
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We got on the university list in first trimester and our infant spot opens up a year after he's no longer an infant. No other infant options in town, so we hired a nanny. She's spectacular but doubles childcare costs. No idea what single parents/those struggling financially do.
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In our case (I was a grad student at the time) a neighbour who was a single mom watched him, and then when she got another job, another neighbour watched both our kids.
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I'm glad it worked out! I now know how stressful/hard it is to maintain career goals and make sure kid(s) have good care.
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We're #62 on our uni day care list :( the wait is normally "only" two years... But so is my contract
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I put Arlo on the uni wait list when I was in my 2nd trimester...not holding my breath that there'll be a spot when I go back next year & no idea what we'll do as private daycares similarly booked up
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I hope you find a place for your baby. It's so frustrating and stressful. (FWIW we made do by having a neighbour watch our baby. It was great--we made a wonderful family friend.)
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Yes you have to create you're own community don't you! Especially without family nearby. Our kid is in daycare but we have to use the train rather than a quick walk across campus :(
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Hopefully we'll find a place if uni doesn't come through & I'll keep my eye out for potential neighbours that could help
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It's a stressful situation isn't it! Going back to work for new mums seriously needs less complications rather than more...
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Definitely, I've been shelving the worry about it as it's all a bit much right now but going to have to figure things out in the new year
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The most amazing thing to me is that they followed up with you, in my case that rarely happens!
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Ha, true!
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How can that even work? How can wait 11 years for a spot in a 0-5 centre if you put your name down pre-birth. I can understand maybe, 5 yrs but 11??? Do they have a complicated priority system?
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Very high demand. It's Toronto. (We did get a spot in a different centre when child was 2.)
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Ours wasn't quite as extreme but the call came 5 years after we had put our names on the waitlist for the on-campus daycare. I had already finished my Ph.D. and moved on.
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That's just as bad!! Outcome is the same: you didn't have care when you needed it.
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Why don't more facilities open?
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that is a really good point.
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I’m sure I’m missing something — We have low standards and low wages in the US, people practically run daycares out of vans.
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This was (and, as I understand it, still is) the reality in Toronto. We did find care for our kid with a neighbour until he got a spot at a centre at age 2. But the wait lists are epic, so the email was a funny moment.
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I believe you! I wasn’t making enough to cover the cost with my first, so I gave up and stayed home (after a brief & ridiculous foray into MIL based childcare).
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