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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your mom is not thinking this through.  I can tell you right now all what will happen:

1) Your mom won't want to listen to you or the nanny and will undermine sleep training and schedule protocols.  It will take months longer than it should to get your baby on a good schedule (which is crucial for the sanity of working parents). Other families will have a nice routine going by 6 months but your kid will be so turned around from having completely different caregivers and routines every other week that he/she will still have an unpredictable and erratic schedule until closer to a year when it becomes increasingly hard to sleep train.

2) Your mom will likely compete for baby's affection with the nanny so your nanny will quit and you'll have to find a new one, or she'll just get sick of the bizarre schedule and find a real job.

3) Your mom will think it's pretty fun until baby turns into a crawler, or walker or tantrum-throwing toddler and she will be overwhelmed and either start flaking or guilt-tripping you depending on her style.

4) Your mom will take extreme personal offense when the baby goes through stages of preferring the nanny (which is a totally normal and predictable part of separation anxiety).

5) Your poor husband is NOT going to be happy having his MIL in the house 50% of the time and the two of you will have added marital stress during what is already a hard time in any marriage.[/quote]

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