Baby Nurse - 24 hrs. vs. Nighttime Only

[Anonymous]

Really? You hired the baby nurse for SIDS? I agree that having a baby nurse sleep in a guest room not near the baby would be absurd, but napping on the couch near a basinette in the middle of the night - when it can actually be hard for a human being to stay awake in a dark, quiet room etc - seems totally reasonably to me. I'd expect the baby nurse to monitor the baby, bring him or her to me if there is crying, needing to feed etc, then take the baby and change the baby when needed.

[Anonymous]

I worked as a night nurse for several families and absolutely ALL OF THEM disclosed at interview time that it was OK for me to cat nap through the night.
In most cases the babies I watched were formula fed so I was hired mostly to grant the parents a full 10 hours of sleep so I had to be up and running at the first noise the baby made.