Nurseries and travel

As someone who doesnt have a car at the moment and has to rely on public transport or walk it , how far would you be willing to travel to take your child to nursery (daycare) ?

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are these choices like 15 minutes walking? driving? bus?

I mean....you've gotta do what you've gotta do. If you had a nursery available within 20 mins walking distance, great. If you didn't, then I guess I'd be looking for one that is accessible by public transport.

I'm trying to imagine how I would have gotten to nursery without a car.

First nursery would have been a 15 min walk, a 15 min bus ride and a 5 min walk. So 35 min total. Then travel to work.

Second nursery we moved to a small town with no public transport. So half an hour walk there, and half an hour walk back.

We're very fortunate in that our nursery is only 3 minutes drive, 8 minutes walk away from our home. We only have one car seat and there's been times we're I've been stuck in traffic on the way home, and my husband has just walked up to grab our son. Its taken so much pressure off us, as public transport can and often does go wrong! I'd definitely try for one as close as possible to home

We are London, car free. Nursery is 20mins away. We walk or cycle it, and it's fine. Slightly annoying that it's 10mins the other side of us than the train station, is my only gripe, would prefer it to be en route

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Has anyone else been told it won’t start until May?

The government site states it should start from April 1st, and so I intentionally set my nursery start and return to work as the start of April for that reason, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to afford the nursery on my sole income without the funding

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He has no respect for anything to do with me.

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Is this normal?

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Identity crisis?

Am I the only sahm who feels like they have lost their identity??? I don’t make money for my family, when I used to make great money. But I refuse to drop my under a year old baby off with strangers.
My husband works so much. But I have no control over bringing in money and I’m a control freak type of person! I feel l like I’m losing my grip because we are kind of broke, but day care would only eat up my income anyways! So what’s the point. I’m a workaholic and now I’m just a twitching bum.
I wish I could work from home but so far that’s a fake dream. I’m almost 9 months pp, and I just need to know these awful mood swings and depression will end soon! Send wine!