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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is hard to raise a baby with no local family.  I rarely get a break and we will never have date night.  I'd find a babysitter if I had some good recommendations, but we don't have any recommendations currently.  I am so envious of people who have local family.[/quote]

Why?  We have no local family (I'm the one with family in Florida, Texas and Portland) and we occasionally have a date night.  It's expensive paying for a sitter, but we do it sometimes to have some adult only time.  We can't afford to do it often, but we get out 3-4 times a year sans children.

As for finding babysitters without recommendations, I would recommend calling one of the daycares near you and seeing if they have any teachers there who would be willing to take some babysitting jobs on the side.  I would recommend daycare centers because those places do background checks on their employees.  I would also specify that you would like candidates who have been with them for at least 2 years, so that you know that this person is more likely to be stable.  What I do with all sitter candidates is that I'll have them come over some weekend afternoon when we're home but going to be working on a lot of family chores and need to do so without child interruptions, and have the sitter come and watch the kids.  Then I'll observe them through the day (I'll walk through or by the area where she's with the kids or do some chores in the room next to them) and see how she interacts with them and handles them.  It's our "trial run" which will tell me whether I'd hire the person again.[/quote]

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