Anonymous wrote:Thank you to those who had serious feedback. My mom is is willing to help again if necessary, but it's not her preference. I don't think it would be overly burdensome to the nanny. My kid sleeps 8pm -7:30am and takes a 2 hour nap. It's M-F so it would be the normal working hours, plus overtime. After we come home, she'd be getting the weekend plus Monday off. She is young and energetic, and routinely does weekend babysitting for another family beyond her FT work with us, so it's more an issue of personal comfort than the hours.

Our nanny said she'd like to do the overnight. I 100% trust her to be safe and follow our rules. It's just a fear that something out of her control could happen and I'd have to wait for a flight to become available. The destination is non-negotiable; either we go on this trip 4 hours away without DC, or we don't take a trip at all this winter. Our nanny would like to go on this trip with us, but DH does not want to fly with DC until she is older. He wants to go on this trip too, but he would also be satisfied with continuing to just vacation locally with DC in warmer weather.

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely and lol at a poster calling it child abuse. Gtfoh. We have an ad-hoc sitter who's been with us going on 7 years. Four kids, 14, 10 and 4 year old twins. When we both worked and had to take trips at the same time, she filled in for overnight care very easily and no issues. Now that I don't work, she still covers overnights when we take a staycation or vacation us two only, longest being 6 days. I absolutely trust her with their lives. She's 35, with her own transportation, CPR certified, knows Heimlich, lives just a few miles away.

If you feel comfortable with her, go for it. I will say, full-time care can be a lot. All of mine are in school during the day so when she's covered longer than weekend stays, she gets the break during the day but seems like your nanny is wiling and able. And obviously, we pay her for all hours worked, sleeping or awake, let her order whatever food she wants and she has her own guest room and bath while over. Good luck!

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to those who had serious feedback. My mom is is willing to help again if necessary, but it's not her preference. I don't think it would be overly burdensome to the nanny. My kid sleeps 8pm -7:30am and takes a 2 hour nap. It's M-F so it would be the normal working hours, plus overtime. After we come home, she'd be getting the weekend plus Monday off. She is young and energetic, and routinely does weekend babysitting for another family beyond her FT work with us, so it's more an issue of personal comfort than the hours.

Our nanny said she'd like to do the overnight. I 100% trust her to be safe and follow our rules. It's just a fear that something out of her control could happen and I'd have to wait for a flight to become available. The destination is non-negotiable; either we go on this trip 4 hours away without DC, or we don't take a trip at all this winter. Our nanny would like to go on this trip with us, but DH does not want to fly with DC until she is older. He wants to go on this trip too, but he would also be satisfied with continuing to just vacation locally with DC in warmer weather.