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[quote=Anonymous]We did.  Our nanny announced she was pregnant a few months after starting with us.  She was a great nanny and we liked and cared about her and wanted to try and work it out with her.  She told us right off the bat that she had made other child care arrangements for her baby so that was never a question.  We told her she could take all of her PTO as leave and as much unpaid time off as she wanted, provided she set a start and end date in advance so that we could hire a temporary nanny for that period.  We also gave her about an extra week of paid leave as a gift/maternity leave, which was the absolute most we could afford, since we were also paying for a back up nanny.

Honestly, it felt like the right thing to do for our nanny but it was absolutely not at all in our child's best interests for a lot of reasons I won't go into here.  As a woman, I always want to feel good about being fair about these things and to treat others the way I'd want to be treated.  As a mom, it put me in the very bad situation of discovering I had put someone else's needs above those of my child.  [/quote]

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