In the weeks after her second daughter was born in August 2022, Eniola Adams got to work.
Her job: find child care.
Adams said she registered on wait lists for about 20 licensed centres across Hamilton, where she lives, and in the nearby Ontario cities of Burlington and Oakville.
Adams said she was hopeful she’d find a spot by September 2023 so she could return to her career as a nurse practitioner at a hospital dialysis unit that’s already short-staffed. She also wants to pursue medical school to become a doctor.
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But 10 months later, Adams doesn’t know if she’ll be able to get