Infant care vs hiring a domestic helper

Hi all, how did you decide between enrolling baby into infant care vs hiring a helper to care for baby after the maternity & paternity leave ends? I’m leaning towards infant care as it’s specialized care for baby and it will provide stimulation to the baby while my husband prefers hiring a helper since it will be 1-1 care plus helper can help with chores. We can rotate our wfh to ensure that at least one of us will be home with the helper but I still feel that we will be distracted by work and the helper’s care for baby will just be basic care…the longer husband and I discuss this, the slower we are in getting a space for our baby in the ideal infant care near our home…

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I have the same dilemma… I wanted to enrol into ifc and return back to the workforce to be entitled for the working mum subsidy. But after thinking for awhile… ifc = bb will fall sick often + centre closures so I’ll need to be always prepared to bring bb back home which can be very tough for working parents 😔 so now I’m leaning more towards getting a helper who can help me with baby and chores when me and my husband go to work but of course getting a good helper is a hit and miss. IFC offers activities/develop social skills but tbh coming from someone who is from the preschool sector, I feel it’s good enough to enrol your child when they are turning 18 months. Anything younger than that is not really necessary because more than half the time the teachers are just busy with routine😂

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