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Interesting - I assumed creche was an American term and widely understood. In the UK I've never heard it used much (we typically use "nursery" but I opted for creche based on the assumption that most readers are not UK-natives)

I'm from the UK and I hear crèche used way more than nursery.

Nursery is way more common here in the States, creche is usually used when someone is writing sci-fi or fantasy and wants to sound fancy =)

Nurseries are for human children; creches are for ineffable alien offspring-rearing purposes.

I agree with that. I’ve only known crèches as places where a human body is held in order to be augmented or have a mind transfer to a body in a second crèche.

It's French, it means both nursery and the nativity scene. Each side of the Atlantic decided to land on the other definition

Créche is for children, nursery is for plants.

Simple. (UK resident.)

> a crèche is a Christmas nativity scene with baby Jesus

That's a scene... of a crèche. It's the same terminology.