Childcare Facilities ... Concerns

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When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, we worked on arranging our finance so that we could live on one income. It was very important to us that she stay home; we're even doing home-schooling. We couldn't imagine leaving her with someone all day, just to go to work, to make money, to pay someone to watch her, so we could go to work, to make money, to pay them... etc.

So our baby is about 6 months old now, and other than various of her grandmothers that we've had watch her for a few hours here and there, we haven't left her with anybody. In fact, when someone has watched her, it's been at our house.

So here's the deal: Mama and Papa need to work out, we're fat and unhealthy and Papa's goddamn neck hurts from sitting at a computer all day. Okay, so we've been checking out some gyms that provide Childcare services, but this is something we know nothing about.

So... Is there some kind of certification that these things need to have? How do you evaluate them? Does anybody have any experience with Childcare services provided by gyms? Are they on par with standalone facilities, and are standalone facilities even a standard to aim for? Basically: how the hell can you leave your kid somewhere?

I'm not sure there is anything whatsoever that will make me feel comfortable with this idea. But if I don't start working out soon my spine is going to collapse.