Is it disrespectful to ask your nanny...
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Anonymous
| ... to wait in the waiting room while you take your child into the doctor's examining room? Sometimes I need the nanny with us for appointments and other times I don't but I sensed that she was insulted when I tell her she doesn't need to come in with us. |
Anonymous
| If she's there because you need her to bring your kid there and then bring them home, why not give her a break when you guys link up? Let heR go to coffee or lunch or whatever. Don't see why she has to be with you in the waiting room |
Anonymous
| I do think it is insulting to make her sit alone in a pediatrician's waiting room, OP. Either have her come in with you and DC or let her stay at home and do her other child-related chores like groceries or cooking for him. Please do not use her as a donkey to carry your baby and his diaper bag from the car for you. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| Depends on the situation I think. If you have one child, I agree with the other posters. I care for two and last time we went to the doctor I say in the wait room while one got a needle and then we switched kids. It worked out well for us. |
Anonymous
| You need help to take your child to ped's office? |
Anonymous
| I've taken kids to the pediatrician many times and have only gone in w/ them once. I usually wait in the waiting room, though I'd have loved it if the parent had said go get some coffee and be back in 30. |
Anonymous
| It is disrespectful of your nanny, OP. My MB would never do that to me. |
Anonymous
| I'd rather be in the waiting room trolling the internet on my phone than crammed into a tiny undersized exam room. Two adults do not need to be in there unless we're dealing with twins. |
Anonymous
| If the nanny isn't going to go into the examining room with you, OP, why did you need her to come with you at all? |
Anonymous
| Why didn't you want her to be there with your child? |
Anonymous
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OP here. I don't let my nanny drive my child so for doctor's appointments I go home and pick them up. Sometimes it is nice to have a second person in the car with DS so he doesn't fall asleep and I can just go to work without walking back into the house.
I just don't need the nanny with me inside the examining room for some appointments but I do need her to carry DS through the parking lot and up the elevator into the office as I have a bad back. However, I may have made a mistake this time in telling her as we were about to go into the examining room that I didn't need her to come in with us. She didn't bring anything to read and the waiting room has no magazines. |
Anonymous
OP? |
Anonymous
| It wouldnt bother me at all. Even with no magazine or book I would enjoy 20 min to sit and relax in the waiting room. |
Anonymous
...in the examining room. |