Nanny careless with drugs?

[Anonymous]

We need some hive advice. We have an 8-month old baby who's crawling and eating everything on the floor. A few days ago, we found a pill on the floor of the playroom. The pill does not belong to us. The housekeepers had presumably vacuumed the day before we found the pill, and no other adult had been in the room since then - other than the nanny. We don't know what the pill is because it doesn't have an imprint. (Even our local pharmacist couldn't identify it.) We've only had the nanny for a month, and we're not sure how to handle it.

[Anonymous]

Are you serious? You say, "We found a pill on the floor of the playroom. Please be really careful to look around where the baby is crawling."

Your housekeepers could have dropped it out of a pocket for all you know ...

[Anonymous]

A pill with absolutely no imprint? Are you sure it wasn't a tic tac? Candy?

[Anonymous]

Since I have lived my entire life on the planet Earth, I am quite confident that it is not a tic tac or candy. A pill without an imprint could be a dietary pill, a foreign prescription drug, or an illicit drug.

Knowing that, if you thought the nanny dropped it, would you really say nothing more than, "please be careful"? You wouldn't do anything to try to figure out if it was hers? You wouldn't take any more serious action if you concluded it was hers?

[Anonymous]

NP here. Would you "take action" without even knowing or finding out what sort of pill it was? Does it matter to you if it's a dietary stimulant vs a vitamin, for example?

I certainly wouldn't fire her over it, if that's what you're insinuating.

[Anonymous]

http://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
Find out what it is.

These are my thoughts:
It could have been dropped by a housekeeper and been missed by the vacuum.
It could have been dropped by the nanny.
It could have been dropped by someone else and missed by the vacuum.

I'd find out what the pill is and have a discussion with the nanny. Definitely wouldn't fire her without giving her even a chance to explain things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you serious? You say, "We found a pill on the floor of the playroom. Please be really careful to look around where the baby is crawling."

Your housekeepers could have dropped it out of a pocket for all you know ...

+1

[Anonymous]

Who exactly would you like to trust, OP?

[Anonymous]

You took it to the pharmacist? Overkill.

Ask the nanny if she dropped it. If she said no, tell her okay and casually mention that you want to make sure that LO does not pick up anything (pills, tic tacs etc).

Why is this such an experience?

[Anonymous]

Who cares what the pill is, she carelessly dropped medication in a place the baby could easily get to and ingest it. She has put your child in serious danger. Everyone knows to be careful with meds + children. Get rid of her

[Anonymous]

Next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares what the pill is, she carelessly dropped medication in a place the baby could easily get to and ingest it. She has put your child in serious danger. Everyone knows to be careful with meds + children. Get rid of her

Not necessarily. OP has no proof that it was the nanny who dropped it. You're telling me your housekeepers are so fantastic that they've never, EVER missed a spot while vacuuming?

[Anonymous]

I'd just tell her you found it and where and then ask if it's hers or not. If she says no then either it's not hers and someone else dropped it or she'll know to be more careful in the future. Is your nanny foreign? Maybe it's an allergy pill or something from her country of origin. Just say you found that on the floor and now that your child is crawling you want to be more vigilant about what lands on the floor. She won't be offended by that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd just tell her you found it and where and then ask if it's hers or not. If she says no then either it's not hers and someone else dropped it or she'll know to be more careful in the future. Is your nanny foreign? Maybe it's an allergy pill or something from her country of origin. Just say you found that on the floor and now that your child is crawling you want to be more vigilant about what lands on the floor. She won't be offended by that.

+1

[Anonymous]

This is one of those areas where you either have a nanny you trust or you don't. If you trust your nanny, then the possibility that it might be hers exists and you bring it up and trust that she will get why this is a big deal and won't let it happen again. If you don't trust your nanny, there is nothing you can do to fix that. You can fire her, but that only fixes if the trust issue is about her attitude or past behavior. If the trust issue is about who you are as a person (and frankly "wr took it to our pharmacist to identify" leads me to believe this is the case) then you aren't going to be able to trust any nanny and ahould look into other forms of childcare where you can feel more secure.