Sick Baby and Nanny / Nanny Share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why we're switching to daycare. It's one thing to stay home when your child is sick, but totally annoying to have to take a day off because the nanny is sick or otherwise can't come to work.

Nannying is a professional JOB. What full time job does not have sick days?
We are in a pandemic, in flu season, in super high rates of RSV season. No nanny is invincible to getting sick. No person is. It feels “annoying” for you to take off of your work to care for YOUR own kid, when your nanny is so sick? That is so entitled, ableist, and lacking all empathy!

I don’t know any nannies who do not get sick days. And employers can’t retaliate against their employee for using the employees earned/agreed upon sick days. Thats gross! I’m glad you are switching to daycare because that work environment doesn’t sound good for the nanny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:My son has RSV. (He's 13 months and this is his second bout.) We are in a nanny share. Before we knew it was RSV, the other family was weary of him being around their child because they didn't want her getting a cold. i understood, so I took him home. Now, for the past four days, I have had to pay my nanny even though I cannot use her, plus pay someone else to help out for a few hours during the day, plus sacrifice several hours of work. On Fridays, we do not do the share and the nanny comes to my house. What is generally appropriate in this situation? Should she come despite the fact that he might be contagious or should she stay home? Also, what do other families who are in nanny shares do when it is the common cold?

One other thing, does anyone else feel like between their child's illnesses, their nanny's illnesses/schedule, and your own schedule that you are constantly having to take time from work? I keep wondering if I have the wrong nanny and the wrong share arrangements.

This is why you pay for your own nanny. Nanny takes care of your child(ren) with no differentiation between sick or well. When nanny has a cold or light flu, she works as normal, only calls off if you don't want your child around her or if she has fever, vomiting or diarrhea. And there's zero reason that your schedule should be making you take off work unless you are sick; find a nanny who will work with your schedule.

You want a nanny with a "light flu" taking care of your baby? You're awful, both toward your nanny and your baby.

Actually, I'm a nanny... And yes, I always work with light flu, that's what the parents need.

Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we're switching to daycare. It's one thing to stay home when your child is sick, but totally annoying to have to take a day off because the nanny is sick or otherwise can't come to work.

Nannying is a professional JOB. What full time job does not have sick days?
We are in a pandemic, in flu season, in super high rates of RSV season. No nanny is invincible to getting sick. No person is. It feels “annoying” for you to take off of your work to care for YOUR own kid, when your nanny is so sick? That is so entitled, ableist, and lacking all empathy!

I don’t know any nannies who do not get sick days. And employers can’t retaliate against their employee for using the employees earned/agreed upon sick days. Thats gross! I’m glad you are switching to daycare because that work environment doesn’t sound good for the nanny!

+1,000. Yup. PP is clearly a Daycare Mom.

[Anonymous]

Bad news for daycare mom. You will miss not days abut weeks of work. I am sorry for the baby. About 70% of the kids in MD daycares are sick with something right now, and staying home for weeks because of tripledemic. Count yourself lucky if it is a day or 2 with the nanny.