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  • JourneeDirector
    Daycare.com Member
    • Jan 2016
    • 3

    Starting Out with an Infant Only Facility...

    Hello all,

    So I have decided to open a daycare center catering only to infants to start off. With this being said I wanted to ask if anyone had any tips on how to achieve a profit to grow the center in the coming months and if you could give any money saving ideas. Thanks for your time.
  • LysesKids
    Daycare.com Member
    • May 2014
    • 2836

    #2
    Originally posted by JourneeDirector
    Hello all,

    So I have decided to open a daycare center catering only to infants to start off. With this being said I wanted to ask if anyone had any tips on how to achieve a profit to grow the center in the coming months and if you could give any money saving ideas. Thanks for your time.
    First I would find out what your state regulations require... they vary so much state to state.

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    • JourneeDirector
      Daycare.com Member
      • Jan 2016
      • 3

      #3
      lyseskids,

      Thanks for your comment. I actually have gone through all regulations and in the process of finding my building. Just wanted to see how others were able to still support their family during start up(I'm a single mother of 3). Hoping for some tips and tricks from people who have been in business for a while or anyone who has been in a similar situation.

      Thanks!!

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      • Sugar Magnolia
        Blossoms Blooming
        • Apr 2011
        • 2647

        #4
        I could chat with you at length about this topic. If you could pm me, I will provide you my email address. I have opened a center and am contemplating this very idea for my next center.

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        • Unregistered

          #5
          I currently am a legally unlicensed home daycare (slowly pursing licensing), and primarily doing infant and toddler care (I can have 3 kids). I charge $175/week full time. If I'm full I gross $8.75 an hour, before expenses/taxes/etc.

          It would be extremely difficult to charge parents an affordable fee, AND pay employees even minimum wage, just providing infant care. Centers that provide infant care often have to charge a significant amount, which means parents frequently pull their infants if they can find a spot in a lower cost family daycare, or can find a relative to watch the child.

          Really, I suspect many centers run their infant programs at a loss, in hopes that by providing infant care the parent will keep the child at the center so they'll make up the losses once they're in the preschool program with 1:10 ratios and such.

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          • LysesKids
            Daycare.com Member
            • May 2014
            • 2836

            #6
            Originally posted by JourneeDirector
            lyseskids,

            Thanks for your comment. I actually have gone through all regulations and in the process of finding my building. Just wanted to see how others were able to still support their family during start up(I'm a single mother of 3). Hoping for some tips and tricks from people who have been in business for a while or anyone who has been in a similar situation.

            Thanks!!
            I have done infants only ( under 15 months) and infant toddler care (under 24 months) in my home for 10 years (a few different states)and have done childcare for going on 16 years... I would never try and do an infants only center for the reasons already mentioned; it's hard enough trying to keep full now. Believe me a few parents have asked me to try and expand with help - NO WAY.

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            • JourneeDirector
              Daycare.com Member
              • Jan 2016
              • 3

              #7
              Thank you guys for your responses!!

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              • Cat Herder
                Advanced Daycare.com Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 13744

                #8
                Georgia is wonky and defies logic a bit.

                Family providers can only have 3 infants while the same person can have 6 in a center.

                I guess center kids have fewer needs?

                Can you live on the tuition of 3 kids minus overhead? Can you afford to pay 1 adult per 6 kids while paying for a centers overhead?

                I don't think I could. The older toddler and school age rooms is where the money is.
                - Unless otherwise stated, all my posts are personal opinion and worth what you paid for them.

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                • Nisaryn
                  New DCP
                  • Jun 2015
                  • 203

                  #9
                  Hello, I run an Infant only program but I am a family day care home. As others have said on here it would be really difficult to run an Infant only program right off the bat...this is something I would pursue after you already have an established program with a variety of ages. All of the Infants I have came to me for 1. It's cheaper to find care at an in-home daycare for infants and 2. I run a fantastic Infant program and get a lot of recommendations.

                  As an infants only home, however, I do charge quite a bit more than other home day cares BUT not as much as a center costs.

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