Thanks, everybody! We found a place that we trusted; meaning we liked the people, the layout, the company seemed concerned about hygiene in general (wall-mounted hand sanitizers everywhere is a must for me; maybe I'm germ-phobic but I do work in healthcare IT), and they have a bar-coded, photo-IDed checkin/checkout system (nice), and they were able to describe a back-up plan for the intercom system (I know from daily experience that an intercom can't be heard in 100% of locations within a facility). We did, as suggested here, accost some customers of this facility to confirm our observations. We also observed the staff with some small babies, and it's as you say (common sense now that I think about it) that anybody loves to play a cute baby, for about an hour. Also, the point about letting her experience different social contexts is well received.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
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