Need some ideas
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Anonymous
| How much child related work is accepted for 2 babies and how much is too much. |
Anonymous
| Other than washing bottles and heating up baby food, nothing. Two babies is a lot of work already. Throwing extra child related work on top of that will lead to a burned out, resentful nanny. |
Anonymous
| I would do the bottles as PP mentioned and would also do laundry (or would try but would hope my MB understood on the days it didn't all happen). |
Anonymous
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Depends on the total hours, the ages of the babies, amount of time reliably spent napping, the compensation package, etc...
Pretty standard is cooking, cleaning, and laundry for the kids. That might be too much if the job is part-time and doesn't cover nap time, but it's usually quite manageable for a full time position w/ healthy/normal kids. |
Anonymous
How much do you get done with two babies? |
Anonymous
Laundry, bottle, cooking(making lots of food also for weekend ) and now I am burned out by the end of day. |
Anonymous
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Is it a nanny share or siblings?
If it's a share, where does the second child sleep? That matters. |
Anonymous
Twins? How old? Congratulations. |
Anonymous
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New poster, long time nanny with lots of twin experience here. If you are a twin mom looking for a full time nanny, and your twins sleep reliably well (solid 1.5-2hrs of simultaneous napping per day), it is reasonable to expect your nanny to do the dishes (not dishes leftover from your dinner last night, just the dishes dirtied during her shift), 1-2 loads of laundry per week, help preparing baby food and basic meal prep, and keep the house generally tidy. She might also be able to run a small errand once or twice per week (for example, picking up 1-3 small items at the grocery store, etc). Of course, you'd have to compensate her well ($20/hr minimum DC area), and be understanding of the fact that not every chore might get done every day, especially if they didn't nap well that day, etc.
Good luck. |
Anonymous
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If you are caring for two infants, you shouldn't also be responsible for any housekeeping duties at the same time.
Caring for two babies is very challenging in itself and to be distracted by household chores wouldn't be right. I say, just do the common sense things that every caregiver should do. Wash up any dishes and bottled that you use during your stay and make sure to clean up any toys left on the floor before the parents arrive. That should be it. |
Anonymous
| Op here it is nanny share. |
Anonymous
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Mother of twins here. OP, for a share I think you can expect a bit less than if you had one nanny for one family. In a share the nanny has less control over synchronous naps, less ability to get both kids on exactly the same schedule/preferences/etc..., and also has to juggle two families needs and styles.
So I think in a nanny share situation you could expect the nanny to clean up after meals, keep play areas generally tidy, and maybe do some food prep, I think that would probably be it. I'm not sure laundry is realistic to include in a share (except perhaps an occasional emergency load given a diaper blow-out or something.) |
Anonymous
| Nanny to 1 year old twins here. I do live-in, laundry 2 days a week (try for Monday and Friday), baby food prep and rinse bottles/clean the highchairs and floor. Anything beyond that is too much, especially right now as the larger twin wants to shift his nap later and the smaller twin still wants the earlier one). When a MB has a set schedule for 4 meals and 1 nap, there's no way to do anything else. |