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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have similar jobs, and when my 3 were smaller we had an au pair plus a part time nanny who worked predictable days to give a pair a regular amount of time off. Now that they're older and all in school we've scaled back to just an au pair. 
90% of the time I know my schedule for the week by sunday, so I can set the au pair's schedule, but we emphasize the need for flexibility and only choose au pairs who agree with our needs.[/quote]

Did this work well for you?  Was it kind of chaotic (as having 3 young kids is no matter what!) but really made day to day work pretty well most of the time, or just total chaos and painful?  What hours did you generally have for the au pair when you also had the nanny?  If you and the au pair ended up together most of the time, were the kids ok with that dynamic or did each just want you?  I love idea of giving each kid some focused 1:1 time during the evening which I cant do with 3 on my own, but i could also see it being a tough dynamic of who is "getting" mom and who is with the au pair (they act this way with my husband and me when its both of us but he's not great at being the fun playmate) [/quote]

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