"Please note that after the baby was born my spouse was on parental leave all of 2024 so she was not actively working" The baby was born in July...did you mean "all the rest of 2024"?
I would treat this like how spouses who work part-time are treated. Look at Part-time work on page 6 in Pub 503.
If your spouse indeed worked part of the year, I would make a ratio between the days your spouse worked divided by number of work days in the year (220?); so you could report only the part of the day care expenses that applied to your spouse's working time.
When you list your new child along with your previous one, this will cause TurboTax to use the $6k limit.
If, however, your spouse did not work at all in 2024 but was on leave the whole time at home, then no DCFSA is allowed (i.e., you don't enter any expenses, and the Box 10 amount gets added back to Other Income.
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