I must admit, my first thought was, oh i will babysit your little one for you. Then i realised we have never met.

In Melbourne we have Family Day care that is run through the councils, a good friend of mine does it.

It's an alternative to creche and children are minded at approved carer's homes. I was thinking if you could find someone through the council and have DD go a few hours a week between now and the birth, you could build up quite a relationship.

My DD has childcare qualifications and whilst working at her creche is often asked by mums and dads to babysit on the weekends, in their own homes and we often have little ones over. That is another alternative, as you know they have had all the relevant police, working with children checks etc, as has all Melbourne patients who have gone through ivf, we go through thorough testing prior to being allowed to commence ivf treatment .

Hth