Infant care or helper

Personal preference is for infant to stay home, looked after by helper and hopefully someone else at home to supervise if possible. Main concern is that infant's immune system is not as developed and more prone to illness. As infants, they also can't take strong medications or the medications are contraindicated for infants. End up u have a sick baby and you have to continually take leave to deal with it. This is what happened to several colleagues and 1 pulled her baby out of infant care and her in laws helped to take care. Another continued with infant care and hired on a helper to deal with the recurring illnesses.