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[quote=Anonymous]I currently have a night nanny (a night nurse, meaning someone with medical training, is probably much more expensive and usually unnecessary).

It’s literally the best money I’ve ever spent on anything in my life. This is my third child and the newborn experience has been so, so much better than the last two times (especially with #2 which was horrible).

We’re using Let Mommy Sleep. We pay $39 an hour for eight hours a night. (So $312 a night). She comes 11pm-7am (though you can adjust that if you want, but I do believe there is an eight hour minimum). We started at four nights a week once the baby was 2 weeks old (which was when my husband went back to work), moved up to five nights, and then back to four nights.

We reached out to LMS while I was pregnant. They have pre-vetted, trained, background checked, experienced staff. The first one they sent to us for an interview we really liked but didn’t have quite enough experience for us, the second one we interviewed was great, so we chose her. She’s done all of our nights (baby is 2 months old) but we’ve been happy to flex (ie, change which nights a week she comes) so that she was always available. If she was not available and/or we were not flexible with our schedule, LMS would send subs.

My initial plan was to nurse, but do one bottle of formula overnight from day 1 so I could get a four hour stretch of sleep right from the beginning. We figured the nanny would give the bottle upon the baby’s first wake up, and then bring the baby to nurse for any subsequent wake-ups.

As it turned out, nursing didn’t work out for me this time and so by the time the night nanny started, we were exclusively formula feeding, so I sleep a full 8 hours when she’s here.

I do think a night nanny is valuable even if you’re nursing, particularly if you already have other children. Once you get the hang of nursing (and I did nurse my first two), the night nanny can bring you the baby and you can nurse half asleep in your bed and just hand him right back. No diaper changes, no rocking to sleep, no soothing.

If you’re on the fence about it, do the legwork. If you just do a week, and you don’t feel it’s helpful, you can cancel. LMS was very low commitment up front - I think you literally just had to commit to a single night, and then you can cancel anytime. If you’ve got a chill baby, nursing is going well, and you don’t think it’s helping you, you can just cancel. If you’ve got a baby who is up for hours crying in the night (uggghh my first was like that) or who refuses to sleep anywhere but someone’s arms and cries when put in a bassinet, or if nursing doesn’t work out (it happens) you’ll be so glad you have her!

On the flip side, if you decide to see how it goes, and then you’re drowning and exhausted, it’s hard to get this in motion with interviews and logistics and stuff. [/quote]

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