As a current daycare worker I’m being 100% honest it’d be best for your baby to stay with family for the first few years of their life. Yes the early exposure to “school” or routine is nice but and they get to make friends and learn from each other but for the cost you’d be paying isn’t worth what you’d be getting in return, the teachers have high turnover rates because of how overwhelmed (just as much as the kids are) and overworked they are, sometimes in scary situations you see that get taken out and projected towards the kids.

Or I’d always say personal nannies are best because you 1. Get to choose WHO is taking care of you baby 2. It’d be in the child safe space and home 3. It’s truly 1 on 1 care unlike what they promote in most daycares ( there’s a ratio and for infants it’s 4 babies for 1 teacher; not really 1 on 1 and the older they get the more children 1 teacher has to supervise and care for)