If your nanny was pregnant...

[Anonymous]

...how close to her due date was she able to continue to work? Ours would like to work as long as possible, but I am curious what others have experienced -- just trying to figure out what to expect so I can plan.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I should also add that we have one 4-year-old, so no lifting is required, but the duties over the summer would require lots of trips to the pool and other busy activities. I just worry about the nanny being out there in the heat (she is due in early August).

[Anonymous]

Do you have any friends who delivered in early August?

[Anonymous]

Our nanny had a baby in August and we agreed she'd work up until two weeks before her due date (mostly because we needed a definitive start date to give her temporary replacement). We had the additional understanding that if her doctor said she had to stop sooner, she'd tell us immediately and we'd work it out but that didn't come up. She definitely slowed down over the summer but she was still able to do the park most days, etc. She spent more time sitting on the bench than she typically does chasing around DC (who was 2 at the time) but it worked out okay since she could see DC at all times. Not sure how it would have worked if we'd needed her to take DC to the pool daily and be in the pool with DC. She was definitely tired and less energetic towards the end, as one would expect. I have an August baby as well and I have to say by mid-June I was pretty hot and tired and low on the energy myself (particularly in the DC summer).

[Anonymous]

Probably somewhere in her second trimester if she was in great health. We have two babies that require lifting, we're a very active family (swimming multiple times a week, etc.) who travels a lot with the kids & nanny.

[Anonymous]

MB here. I worked up to my due date. If your nanny wants to work and is in good health, let her work up to the date. Better yet, ask her what she wants to do.

PP who suggests she stop working in the second trimester is crazy. Pregnancy isn't an illness and women have been having babies while taking care of other children for millennia.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I was still at work 6 days after my due date (although I wasn't a happy camper at that point). I went to jazzercise and took the metro to work until my 8th month. Particularly with a 4 year old, I don't see any problem at all going practically up to her due date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MB here. I worked up to my due date. If your nanny wants to work and is in good health, let her work up to the date. Better yet, ask her what she wants to do.

PP who suggests she stop working in the second trimester is crazy. Pregnancy isn't an illness and women have been having babies while taking care of other children for millennia.

That was me. Hi. I am not sure I explained well just how active we are. I also worked full time with a long commute up until my due date (actually I worked after too, but from home). The difference is, I don't have a physically demanding job. I am not lifting two babies and carrying them around while pregnant. I stopped traveling for work a little over halfway through. I would not want to give birth in a foreign country, while away from my husband/family.

[Anonymous]

11:26 here. Having BTDT I did want to add that one significant consideration is that if she works very close to her due date, you need to have a satisfactory back up plan in case she goes into labor while caring for your child and a satisfactory back up care plan for while she's out that is flexible on start dates - having actually looked into that, my experience was that it's actually not that easy to find but YMMV.

[Anonymous]

I'd say until as long as she was comfortable.

[Anonymous]

I worked till 4 days past my due date when I finally went into labor. I carried on with all my normal job duties, cleaning, weekly grocery shopping, lots of activities with the kids and 60 hour work weeks with no breaks. I then came back to work after 6 weeks and having had an emergency c section and carried out all of the same duties and schedule. Your nanny knows what she will be able to do and I am sure she will verbalize that. if you guys like her work with her and you will have a rewarding and long lasting relationship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MB here. I worked up to my due date. If your nanny wants to work and is in good health, let her work up to the date. Better yet, ask her what she wants to do.

PP who suggests she stop working in the second trimester is crazy. Pregnancy isn't an illness and women have been having babies while taking care of other children for millennia.

That was me. Hi. I am not sure I explained well just how active we are. I also worked full time with a long commute up until my due date (actually I worked after too, but from home). The difference is, I don't have a physically demanding job. I am not lifting two babies and carrying them around while pregnant. I stopped traveling for work a little over halfway through. I would not want to give birth in a foreign country, while away from my husband/family.

Don't worry, we get it, you're a *very* active family. That being said, did you put yourself on self-imposed bed rest in the second trimester? Probably not. If you can handle continuing with your normal family life whilst pregnant, why can't your nanny? Weird, weird, weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MB here. I worked up to my due date. If your nanny wants to work and is in good health, let her work up to the date. Better yet, ask her what she wants to do.

PP who suggests she stop working in the second trimester is crazy. Pregnancy isn't an illness and women have been having babies while taking care of other children for millennia.

That was me. Hi. I am not sure I explained well just how active we are. I also worked full time with a long commute up until my due date (actually I worked after too, but from home). The difference is, I don't have a physically demanding job. I am not lifting two babies and carrying them around while pregnant. I stopped traveling for work a little over halfway through. I would not want to give birth in a foreign country, while away from my husband/family.

Don't worry, we get it, you're a *very* active family. That being said, did you put yourself on self-imposed bed rest in the second trimester? Probably not. If you can handle continuing with your normal family life whilst pregnant, why can't your nanny? Weird, weird, weird.

No, I didnt put myself on bed rest. But I have a desk job. The nanny does not. Also, when I am home, so is my husband, and he did all the "heavy lifting" while I was pregnant. Towards the end of my pregnancy I would definitely not be comfortable either leaving the 1 yr old in the house alone while I went downstairs to throw out all the garbage, or carrying her down the steps while carrying garbage in the other hand. That's a recipe for falling down stairs.