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Or not having kids at all.
I had two kids at the Bright Horizons in London Bridge and it was £3,800 per month which included the 10% sibling discount for baby 2. At the time my wife was bringing home £2,200 after tax and the quality of childcare was a total corporate box-ticking malaise. Every day we questioned the sanity of it.
Obviously she could have given up her job that she loved and been a full-time Mum for 6 years whilst both kids got through early years and into school but ultimately chose not to as she wanted to be economically productive and not put a huge hole into her career, and we were fortunate enough that I could close the gap with my salary.
We were obvs lucky but it's a terrible set of choice for the majority of families, women being almost exclusively affected by it.