I have been dealing with chronic foot pain for the entire time I have been running my daycare - which is almost 2 years now. After my last pregnancy my arches totally fell and I have plantar fascitis on my left foot (so my heel hurts). I have been to a sports medicine doctor and a chiropractor and both said there is no easy fix and since my arches can't un-fall it is pretty much a long term chronic problem. I have custom insoles but they only partially help.

So I feel really conflicted about continuing doing daycare. It is something I was committed to until atleast my younger daughter started school, but that is 2 years from now. My feet haven't gotten one bit better, if anything it is worse.

Over the Christmas break I only had 1 or 2 daycare kids and had lots of days off to rest. My feet were feeling so much better. Now 2 weeks back into a full load of 6 kids I am limping by the end of the day.

I just really don't know what to do. If I take less kids to make my day more manageable I would need a second job in order to make enough money. Or if I just totally quit I would have to put my own kids into daycare and I really don't want to do that.

What would you do? I have spent so much time thinking about this. I really don't like quiting after I have started something but I am in pain...