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My Sick Baby Proved That Backup Childcare is the Perk Working Moms Really Need

Mom taking sick kid to doctor

Some companies have nurses who can care for your sick children while you work.

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Barely one month of daycare had passed before my baby, Zachary, developed a fever that would . As these things always do, his sickness came at

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