About 2 months into my maternity leave, my husband and I knew that we needed to start looking at caregiving options that would allow me to go back to work when Nate reached 4 months of age.
As much as I loved spending time with my baby, it didn't make much financial sense for me to stay home and be Nate's full-time caregiver, especially given my earning power. Doing household chores and cooking aren't stuff that I particularly enjoy, either. So for those reasons, we decided it would be better to engage external help.
Most Singaporean parents usually opt for either one of 4 choices:
Send their child to infant care Get grandparents to look after Hire a stay-in domestic helper Hire (or send) their child to a nanny / babysitter We deliberated over the different options for quite some time and these were our main concerns:...