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[quote=Anonymous] Do you actually need childcare from 7 AM until 6:30 PM?  At what age are you planning to start this set up?  The reason I ask is that the feasibility of even 2 1/2 hours of all four of those kids in the late afternoon is going to look very different depending on how long your maternity leave is.  If you are planning to have the afternoon nanny deal with four to 6:30 PM with four kids two of whom are newborn twins, that is going to be really hard on her and very poor care for all of the kids. And I say this as someone who is handled twins and older siblings on my own multiple times. If she is not very experienced with twins and especially newborn twins, then having four all at the same time will be tough enough,  but the timeframe that you are talking about is called the witching hour for a reason. The twins are likely to be very fussy and demanding between four and 6:30 PM, and if one or God for bid both of them have colic, it would be challenging for a caregiver even to provide quality care to the two of them. Add in the older siblings and a nanny who presumably mostly works with older kids and it could be very very tough on her. If you could get away with maintaining the overlap until you got home or waiting until the twins are at least six months old to overlap and making sleep training high-priority, you will be much better off IMO.[/quote]

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