I did with Nina, and Emily has just started going 2 days a week, but not full days yet. Only a couple of hours each day. She's your child, do as you please, and what's best for the both of you. And good luck.
Well, with DS1 my theory was to ease him into it with me staying for a while and only leaving him for a couple of hours at a time, but it turned out he was so happy there from the first day I was only disrupting him by hanging around. I would play it by ear hun. You don't need to decide now. See how she goes for the morning and make your decision at lunch time. I'm sure the FDC carer will be fine with that. I don't know about payment - with long day care at a centre you pay for the whole day. GL!
With both kids I have started a week or two before they NEED to start just dropping in for a about 15min- 30min sitting and having a chat with the carers and getting up walking in and out of the room so they got used to me leaving. We would then warm up slowly (once we started paying) for about 3-4hrs (before sleep time) for the first week and then picking her up after sleep time. It was as much for my sake as hers :-)
As for paying, we only did FDC for a short time but we did only pay for the hours we used but... if you have booked certin hours I think you have to pay for the booked hrs not the used hours? Does that make sense.
I am going to do the same as you, have DS booked for his 4 days, but in the first week he is only going to go in half days. With my FDC I have to pay a minimum of 9 hrs no matter how many we use, cause he is booked for a day. I would be interested to hear how you both get on with the trial. Good luck with it.
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