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[quote=Anonymous]We're first time parents with twin (nearly) one year olds.  We've had our nanny about 5 months now and she is terrific.  I trust her with our babies and they seem to be very bonded with her.  She takes my kids out to play with other kids almost every day (she knows lots of other nannies), which I love for the socialization aspect, but I'm beginning to hate for the sickness aspect.  It seems like my kids have been sick with one thing or another almost since our nanny started.  I know that kids get sick, but that was part of the appeal to having a nanny...not spending the first year or two constantly sick (although I knew it would happen eventually).   Now a stomach bug is raging in our house and it looks like we'll have to miss our family Christmas to avoid infecting the other babies in our family.  This is their first Christmas and I'm so sad they won't be able to spend with their grandparents and cousins.

I guess I'm torn...should I just accept that this is how it goes with little ones, or should I ask the nanny to cut back the social outings?  I trust she'll do as I ask, but I'm concerned that she'll be pretty miserable without a social outlet and I do think it is nice for my kids to get to play with other kids.  At the same time, I'm so tired of the snot and coughing and diarrhea.  I have friends with less social nannies whose kids aren't sick nearly as often as mine...but they also don't have as many adventures. Thoughts? [/quote]

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