Infant care vs hiring a domestic helper

Hi all, how did you decide between enrolling baby into infant care vs hiring a helper to care for baby after the maternity & paternity leave ends? I’m leaning towards infant care as it’s specialized care for baby and it will provide stimulation to the baby while my husband prefers hiring a helper since it will be 1-1 care plus helper can help with chores. We can rotate our wfh to ensure that at least one of us will be home with the helper but I still feel that we will be distracted by work and the helper’s care for baby will just be basic care…the longer husband and I discuss this, the slower we are in getting a space for our baby in the ideal infant care near our home…

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I hired helper because I wasn’t keen to send my baby to ifc at such a young age - due to diseases! Before 1 year or 18 months, the baby would be too young anyway in IFC to pick up any valuable skills for reapplication, so hire helper who can help with household chores and simple take care of baby.