Perhaps the important concept of "predictability" is unknown to some of you. |
A mom coming in to say hello is "unpredictable" and therefore bad? You're insane. Thankfully my nanny understood the important on on-demand nursing and bonding. I'd never hire someone who had such a lack of understanding of infant care. |
I'm pretty sure day cares allow access to parents, but the understanding is you aren't going to be just popping in and definitely not in response to the kid getting upset. Nursing is different and was not the subject of this chain. I went to visit my daughter at school and pick her up early the other day. It was nice but definitely an infrequent thing - you could see how it threw her totally off. |
On-demand nursing is at the CHILD'S demand, not the parent's. A parent coming in and out repeatedly through the day can destroy a good play session between baby and nanny, or it can disrupt a toddler/preschooler and cause them to act out. Parents don't go in and out when they have a nanny, they do when they have a mother's helper who they don't trust. |
| Lots of good posts here explaining how mommy popping in and out at her whim is nothing but selfish on her part. |
Exactly. And when my 9 week old baby cried, she was wanting to nurse. Maybe you should research on-demand nursing of newborns. |
PP someone already tried once, quite eloquently, to dismiss you as you are not on topic. I'll try again, GO AWAY. We aren't talking about nursing. Any competent nanny will have no problem with on demand nursing, what we are talking about is entirely different. Stop trying to push your agenda and go bond with your baby. |
Your child never cried due to a dirty diaper, startling awake or just because? If so, you're very lucky. I'm well aware of what on-demand nursing for newborns looks like. The point that several nannies here are trying to make is that a parent shouldn't run every time the child cries (and there is a nanny present with the child), and yes, that includes a 9 week old baby. |
| Just bumping |
Tell her. |
| Why I will never again work for an at home mom. Nanny + parent who's there all day = a job that's impossible to do. |
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| I had the worst experience with a mom who wasn't working and would come in and ruin pretty much every other activity we had - I actually quit nannying after that job for almost a year because I was so stressed out. I now work for another mom who's not working, but she's much better at allowing me to actually do my job, but it's still annoying because the older kid wants to show her things and talk to her half the time and I never know if the mom wants to be interrupted or not. We try to be out of the house most of the time, and the mom as well, so it's been working out fairly well. But for sure the days that the mom is out are much smoother with fewer tantrums. |