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[quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering if anyone has any tips to make this nanny share any easier!

I have been nannying for two babies (both 11 mos. old) for a couple months now.  I have them three full days a week (8-6).  One baby is very easygoing, the other is not at all (SCREAMS for diaper changes and putting on clothes, SCREAMS if she's strapped in the high chair one minute too long, SCREAMS when I wipe off her hands and face after a meal, SCREAMS if she wants to be held and I'm attending to the other baby, SCREAMS when it's time for her to nap).  The "difficult" baby is not sleep trained and can't put herself to sleep.  She will only take a nap in the carrier (I can put her down after she falls asleep) or while walking or pacing down the block in the stroller.  I can handle crying, but the SCREAMING is so difficult, because it really hurts my ears and gives me a headache.  I can't always give her everything she wants at the moment she wants it because I have the other baby, too.  It's really hard for me to love this baby because she's just so difficult.

So far, we've been doing one outing a day (always to the park).  We go after morning nap (they usually nap around 9:30/10 for 45 mins-90 mins depending on the day) and after lunch (which is around 11:15-11:30), so heading out around 12-12:30 until 1:30-2 when they're ready to nap again.  They're up from afternoon naps around 2:30-3:30 (the "difficult" baby is always up first), and dinner is around 4:30.  The last couple hours of the day are the hardest.  The "difficult" baby SCREAMS over everything by that point in the day and I'm totally worn out from lugging both babies up and down stairs (the host house has 3 levels) all day.

Does anyone have any tips or ideas on how to make this easier?  Is there any way to lessen the screaming?  Should we be out of the house more?  I think it would be much easier if we could be on one level all day (going up and down stairs carrying two babies is so exhausting, even though I am young and pretty fit!), but the 1st level is not at all baby friendly.

Thanks for any advice!  I don't want to burn out from the difficult baby and I don't want to quit because I really love the easygoing baby.

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