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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Just to clarify, I never expect her to live on part time hours and pay. I would help her find another family who needed mornings and see if she could still come to us in the afternoon.

I hear all the comments about wanting her when the baby is here. But I typically don’t have a nanny even touch the baby the whole time I’m on mat leave. That is my bonding time with the new baby and my responsibility, being off work. The day I go back to work is the day the nanny cares for that baby for the first time. This is what I did with my second.

Part of me hopes I won’t go back to my job after my mat leave. I would love to scale back part time then too. But I just don’t know how I’ll feel then. Another reason I am hesitant to shell out $1000+ a week, even though we do love her.

I just don’t know what to do. [/quote]

Except now, you also have 2 older kids to think about, and who you also need to spend some quality time with.

3 hours will not fly. Try to see if there is another family in the neighborhood who may need temporary care. It will also depend on what the nanny is willing to do.

At some point, I had a neighbor’s nanny come help with laundry / food prep, during those hours. But I didn’t need 5 hours daily.

You’re cutting her hours by over 60%, which is massive. It’s one thing to say, we won’t need you full time, so you’ll need to find 30% elsewhere, and completely different to say that she needs now to find 60% elsewhere with no clear plan or timeline.

This just will not work. She’ll just look for a family with a new baby on the way or small kids who will seem like a more reliable job.

Also, take note, that finding specifically someone for the hours you mention is very difficult, and if you end up letting go your nanny and finding someone part time, you’d end up paying the part time person probably double the rate you pay your current nanny. [/quote]

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