I've been told the best childcare is community based. So start looking now LOL, they are the ones that are harder to get into. I was also really interested in family day care, but they don't have as many spaces for bubs under 15 months. I'm in Wynnum and am on two waiting lists of community based day care and have been since Matilda was 4 weeks old. I knew that the waiting list was long and I figured she'd go in at 1.5 years... but she's in a smaller private one at the moment close to home and I'm really happy with it. She's only there one day a week and when we went to phone around day cares I found 3 with spaces available, and only liked one after going in and looking around. And none had full-time availability, only 1-2 days. I've been given some questions to ask re: centres I might start a new topic about this....