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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you’re incapable of caring for your children on weekends after you have a baby?  Are you a danger to your older children at bath time due to your exhaustion?

Surgeons and doctors, school bus drivers, preschool and daycare teachers, shouldn’t go back to work after maternity leave because they’ll be too exhausted?

What is fair for nannies is to be treated like any other profession and for women to be treated the same as men.  Your basic premise is wrong and your question (fake concern) is insulting to women.

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True. But none of those people bring their baby to work with them the way a nanny would. Surgeons aren’t trying to operate while holding an infant in one arm. Teachers aren’t walking around with their babies as they teach class.

That’s the difference.

[b]A nanny can’t pay someone else to watch her baby because then her salary would be a wash and there would be no point to working.[/b] [/quote]

This says more about you and what you pay a nanny. You probably pay low and that’s why you think nannies can’t afford childcare.

As a nanny, I currently make around $60k (fluctuates higher when you add bonuses and I can make more when I do a nanny share). My husband makes more than me as a Fed. We could absolutely afford childcare if we had a child. However, I would quit working and stay home, not bc we couldn’t afford childcare but bc I love the infant stage. I would want to experience the first year of my child’s life full time. [/quote]

I’m confused.

It sounds like you have a good job as a nanny and you’re paid on the books.  Are you saying you would be okay paying another nanny under the table wages for your own baby so you could afford childcare? That sounds .... weird.

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