I'm expecting my 1st in Aug and my dad has gladly volunteered to take care of my baby after my maternity leave. The plan is to bring my baby to their place before I go to work and pick baby up after. My step-mom however, is not very happy about it and insists that I hire a helper for them at their house, as I will be able to qualify for subsidied levy. (But i'm not comfortable with having a helper around a 4 mth old) What should I do? Infant care? Really consider hiring a helper? What would you do if you're in my shoes?

Both my kids are in infant care since young. There will be professionals taking care of them and early exposure is good for babies in our opinion. They get to mix around well and also get to learn more. We dun want to have consistent disagreement with parents so it's better to put at ifc. Helper is a no no because we do not like the idea staying with strangers n also we dun trust helpers. But the cons will be when baby is sick we will have to take urgent leave to pick them back & in infant care they are more prone to get ill that's y we chose an ifc without aircon in the play area. That reduces their chances of getting sick.