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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you’re incapable of caring for your children on weekends after you have a baby?  Are you a danger to your older children at bath time due to your exhaustion?

Surgeons and doctors, school bus drivers, preschool and daycare teachers, shouldn’t go back to work after maternity leave because they’ll be too exhausted?

What is fair for nannies is to be treated like any other profession and for women to be treated the same as men.  Your basic premise is wrong and your question (fake concern) is insulting to women.

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True. But none of those people bring their baby to work with them the way a nanny would. Surgeons aren’t trying to operate while holding an infant in one arm. Teachers aren’t walking around with their babies as they teach class.

That’s the difference.

A nanny can’t pay someone else to watch her baby because then her salary would be a wash and there would be no point to working. [/quote]

First, you’ve clearly never worked in an infant daycare where there is usually one baby in teachers arms at all times.

Second, what a ridiculous generalization to make on all nannies!  Many have parents, sisters and the baby’s father who assist in childcare.  Why would a nanny even want to hire another nanny?

And PP’s point was that mothers of newborns are tired in hundreds of occupations around the world - why discriminate against nannies and not surgeons or pilots, for example?  [/quote]

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