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 agree to get best of both worlds if finances allow…those who said baby will keep falling sick after starting ifc, the fact is actually they will still get sick often even if u enroll them to playgroup at a later age😅 it just seems an unavoidable phase as our babies are exposed to outside germs 2/3 time of a day now. Need to be mindful that getting a helper doesn’t guarantee the “1 to 1 care” is superior either

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