I decided to open a child care in my home back in May I think and started advertising almost right away. I managed to get one interview and that client signed up to start in September. It's now November and I still don't have anyone else. I've had some interests but no bites. Money is getting really tight. I'm 9 weeks pregnant and I'm kind of feeling crunched. When I decided to do the child care, I committed myself to try it out for at least a year. I felt that would be a good time frame to get a feel for it, to get more clients, and if I didn't enjoy it or it wasn't working out, I felt it was a fair time to commit to clients. I'm torn now. I don't want to quit after 2 months, after setting everything up, after having an awesome client sign up, after bonding with dcb and I don't want to be that "new" child care provider that makes it more difficult for other newbies to get clients because I've scared them off by quitting. But if I don't get anymore kids, we're not going to make it - especially when the baby comes. We are barely making our bills and that's only because Hubby got a raise. I'm feeling crunched because if I decide that the only way to make it is to get a job and get maternity leave, I have to do that by early Spring, preferably sooner so I'm not showing while I'm interviewing for a job. Again, I only have one client, so it'd only be one person that I'm potentially turning off of newbies and I would give her like a months notice. I just don't know what to do. I'm not naturally a quitter but this is scary and if it weren't for the baby on the way, I would definitely give it more time to see if more kids come along (I have had people interested in care for January - again, just interested, no bites) but again, I'm feeling crunched for time. Thoughts?