I'm sure the other girls will pop in and give you advice/tips on possible ways to make him more settled at CC but I just wanted to throw in another option.

I get in-home care for DD which we qualify for because DP is a shiftworker. Basically, the service is offered through our local childcare centre and a carer comes into our home and 95% of the time it's the same carer.

One of the other eligibility criteria is if you work from home which you do, I think. So that might be worth investigating if you think Elijah would be more settled with one-on-one care at home - not that he has to be AT home - the carer can take him out to the park, play centre even the childcare centre etc.

Though I understand that as he's now 4 you may prefer him to go to CC for socialisation aspects rather than have the one-on-one care.

It costs $22 per hour for one child and $2 extra for each 'extra' child. But obviously you get 50% of that back. There's a 4-hour minimum block but no minimum blocks per week. So sometimes, for instance, we have 1-3 blocks per week, other times we have nothing at all.