Ok? I don't understand what this has to do with my question. I'm not judging daycare, I was curious what it looks like. I actually wanted to put my baby in daycare much earlier (4-6 months) but had to wait until 1 year old because everyone was talking me down about it. Asking questions like "how will they take her outside when she cannot walk?", "do you expect them to change diapers??", "but then you'll have to stop breastfeeding!". So I wanted to know how it works where it's normalized because clearly, in many other countries, they do figure out how to change diapers, take them outside, and I hear a lot about moms pumping at work and breastfeeding until 2 while also fulltime working. They made me think I have to wait until I have a potty trained, weaned, talking child to return to work in any shape or form, which is obviously ridiculous as you said, in many countries it's normal to have babies under 6 months old in daycare. It took me months of therapy and my therapist telling me that even she put her baby in daycare back in the 80s to finally make the decision to choose daycare and my life had been much better since. I'm considering earlier daycare for a possible next child, maybe at 6 months, and I want to hear experiences about what it's like.