There was no choice for us.  Unplanned Kid Sparky had to go, because I had to work.  The only good thing to come out of the CPS mess was 6 months free daycare, and that is nothing to sneeze at.  He was easy to drop off the first day.  I think he may have been asleep.  He loved meeting other kids, and nice teachers, and seeing new toys, and older kids.

He has been there since 6 wks old, at the family business run by a big black and white and brown family, where a lot of the kids moms and dads are the teachers.  Everybody loves him and now we are moving and that's sad.

If we have another kid I'm not sure what we'll do.  I'll still have to go back to work, but DH is out of school and will be working weekends.  So daycare would probably be in the picture, but not necessarily every day.  I guess even if it's just Kid #1, his school time could be scaled back.  That would ease the finances, but he might miss it.