I guess I can agree the worry about having someone else spend all day with your child is scary. I find having Matilda in day care one day a week was so scary for the first 4 months, now she is in one & half days and she loves it there. I think if she ever cried or didn't want to go there I would have a more difficult time. DH however, can not drop Matilda off at day care because it upsets him so much. I call every time she's in and check on her, and if she's having an upset day I hurry to get to her quicker. They all know I want to know if she's unsettled and have had them call me once to let me know that she was unsettled & what they had done about it, and then they called 15 minutes later to say she was asleep.