Nina Ward began looking for child care when she was only a few months pregnant.
Ward and her husband created a list of child care centers and set up tours, but the Kansas City couple repeatedly ran into the same problem: there were no infant spaces available.
So they broadened their search and eventually found a center in Grandview that could take their daughter, A’ja. The center could initially only care for her on a part-time basis, and its location meant Ward had to backtrack on her commute. But it was the best they could find…