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[quote=Anonymous][quote=TES684]OP here - I wasn't really expecting a nanny to "wait for me," I was thinking they would just know when their services wouldn't be needed any longer with another family, e.g. if kids were starting school. That said, I know COVID will make this tricky because families are unlikely to be certain what school is looking like even next fall (I don't think we are going to see any normalcy until at least 2022). But I guess the consensus is that I am way off base, huh? I'm such a planner, I hate this idea of having a baby and having NO idea what their childcare will look like. What if I can't find anyone at all and I can't go back to work? Ugh! [/quote]

I worried about that too.  That's why I started looking six weeks before I had to go back to work. To be honest, we found someone who would be okay - she wasn't great, we weren't enthusiastic about her, but we thought the baby would be safe with her. So we kept looking, knowing that we might offer her the job if we didn't find someone else. But luckily we did.

And I'll just tell you now - nannies are people, not robots. People get sick, have emergencies, shit happens. So line up your backup care - you can do that before your nanny search starts.  We have a neighbor who is a writer and has always worked from home (she flat out said, call me last), we have my friend's retired father (great with infants, but energetic toddlers wear him out after an entire day), and in an emergency DH or I can either bring our kids to work or work from home with them. If we have a planned reason our nanny will be out (surgery or vacation or something) we can fly in my MIL.  So we have a decent number of backup options. [/quote]

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