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[quote=Anonymous]Both.  We've hosted a nanny share at our house 50% of the time since our kid was 5 months.  You definitely need the gates and other babyproofing because, of course, the kids can't spend all of the time in the playpen and, more importantly, eventually they won't spend any time in the playpen, but you'll still need to keep them somewhat contained and safe.  The gates will be helpful at least until your kid is 2.5 (our child is 2.5 and we're just now starting to leave the gates down, but they're still very useful when we want to contain him to an area).  However, we found having a very large playpen (like 6 feet by 5.5 feet) in our family room very useful for times when the nanny (or we) needed to use the restroom, needed to prepare lunch, etc.  Even with the babyproofing, I did not want my child wandering around out of site until he was closer to 2.  I think with a nanny share, it is even more integral that there is a small super safe space, as the nanny cannot always be with both children (e.g., our nanny would leave one child in there while she put the other down for nap, etc.).  We actually used the playpen in our family room until my son was nearly 2.  It was a massive pain because it was huge, but its usefulness outweighed its ugliness.  Towards the end, it was largely just used to contain the toys, but we really relied on it from the age of about 6 months until 1.5.     [/quote]

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