Night Nanny recommendations and cost?
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Anonymous
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Can anyone recommend an agency for a night nanny and how much they generally cost? What exactly can I expect from their services? Also can someone share a perspective on which time frame was best to get one, such as the immediate weeks following birth or maybe waiting a few weeks.
For context, my DH recently started a new job so he won't have any parental leave until I'm nearly done with my leave. That means overnights are just me. My mother is staying with us and helps with many household tasks and DC1 before I drop him off with our caregiver. Ideally, I want the night nanny to allow me to sleep as much as possible overnight so I can be fully alert throughout the daytime/evening hours for my newborn. |
Anonymous
| Let Mommy Sleep was great and very helpful with questions. |
Anonymous
| Any idea on costs? |
Anonymous
| I also used let mommy sleep. I’d guess now around $50/hour with an 8 hour minimum per night. |
Anonymous
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$40-$50/hr usually.
Most needed in first 2-6 weeks after birth. This can look really different depending on your budget etc… 10-6a is standard but could be 9-7a, 10-7a etc… Night nanny supports all sleep and feeding involved activities. This can look different depending on whether you are nursing/pumping/formula or some mix of the above. Night nanny is not awake care so they can sleep when baby is. Night nanny usually doesn’t do any light housekeeping aside from washing pump parts/baby bottles etc… |
Anonymous
Not sure if the awake part is universal. Ours stayed awake all night with the baby, although another I had interviewed with a different agency would have slept (which I didn’t like). |
Anonymous
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So you have 3 adults in the house and still want a night nanny?
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Anonymous
Yup. Is that going to interfere with your life or finances somehow? |
Anonymous
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Unless your mom is zero help and finances are unlimited, I’d skip the night nanny.
Get a snoo instead. |
Anonymous
Op here, thanks for pointing that out. It would annoy me. That’s like a night shift security guard sleeping every night on the job just because there isn’t anyone breaking in. Do the nanny’s expect a bed? Weird. |
Anonymous
Night nannies sleep when the baby sleeps. Most families either put a bassinet/pack n play in the guest room, by the couch, or have a couch/bed in the nursery if there's enough room. Night nurses (RNs) for medically fragile babies typically provide awake care at a much higher hourly rate and usually don't take on jobs with non-medically needed babies. |
Anonymous
| I have done this work and seen it work both ways. Having someone immediately after birth helps your body recover and is a huge help. Having someone 3-4 weeks later when the adrenaline wears off and your baby is more active is also really helpful too though. |
Anonymous
| Londoner here and we paid our night nanny 20GBP/hour for 20 hours a day, 4 days a week. So she'd work Monday-Thursday for 20 hours each day (she was off between 7am-11am) and it SAVED us. 400 GBP/day, 1600 GBP/week. My granny paid and I was on mat leave but really, it allowed me to establish breastfeeding, sleep, have a life and be sane. I'm very grateful. |
Anonymous
God forbid someone wants to make their life just a little easier. |
Anonymous
Yes… most of them provide not awake care at the $40-$50/hr mark. If you want awake care, which tends to be for more medically necessary circumstances, it will be higher. Most agencies require bed or rocker where nannies may rest. |