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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is your DC, OP?[/quote]

9 months! And to clarify, I don’t want to be the ONLY person in DCs life. But I was raised by nannies and definitely recall being closer to them than my own mother, which is sad in hindsight. [/quote]

I was also raised by nannies and wasn't close with my own mother.  I haven't talked to her since I was 16 - more than half my life. But that wasn't because I had nannies. That was because my mother consistently pushed me away, and always sided with her boyfriends and husbands and put them before me.

OP, I have a nanny for my kids. They've had the same nanny for as long as they can remember. And when I come home after work (or now, stop working for the day) they are very excited to snuggle with  me, or show me the dance they put together, or the picture they drew or obstacle course they created, etc.  And I listen, I clap, I brag in their earshot to my friends about them, I watch.  Just like adults have hearts big enough to love more than one child, children have big enough hearts to love more than one caregiver too. [/quote]

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