This is Episode One of “In Good Hands,” a three-part series with Care.com on the emotional truths of finding care for your baby. Today: the search for childcare.
Searching for childcare feels different from every other kind of parenting research. You can vet the daycare, read the reviews, love the nanny on paper, and still get to the door and feel your whole body say absolutely not. This episode is about that feeling, and why it runs so much deeper than logistics.
Becky sits down with Good Inside’s Kate Kirschner, a licensed therapist and certified perinatal mental health expert, to pull apart what's really happening when you go looking for someone else to care for your baby. It turns out the search isn't only about your kid. It's about the version of you that's been on pause since the baby arrived, and whether she's still in there.
They get practical, too. How to make a list that actually helps instead of spinning you out. What to ask in an interview when you can't name what you're even looking for. Why "good enough" beats "perfect," why no caregiving choice has to be forever, and how to be sad about a change without believing you've broken something.
This is Episode One of “In Good Hands,” a three-part series with Care.com on the emotional truths of finding care for your baby. Dr. Becky and Kate wrote up some ideas for how to approach finding your first caregiver for the Good Inside blog.
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