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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had three overlapping nannies for my four children when my husband was deployed (normally we have two, with the morning PT nanny doing more housekeeping than nannying).

So, We had coverage 7-7. Morning nanny 7-12; FT nanny 8:30-5; afternoon nanny 3- 7. In those days, my kids were generally in bed asleep by 7, and up around 5/5:30.

It was more coverage than we needed, but we had no close-by relatives and very few friends since we had only recently moved. Our youngest was 6 months old and still breastfeeding overnight. This coverage meant that if I had a series of nights with sick kids + the baby I could get some rest, I didn't have to quit my job just because DH was gone in order to cover carpools, activities, emergencies, etc., and the two times a child had to go to the emergency room after hours, one of the three nannies was available to come back and stay with the other kids until I got home.

In a lot of ways, it was a total luxury. But, normally we have two, and it makes it easy for us when someone needs time off or gets sick or goes on vacation, and they both like having someone else to talk to, too.[/quote]

^^ we only had this weekdays; weekends, I had a teen who came to stay with us from Sat am - Sun bedtime and worked more like an au pair than a nanny. If I needed more coverage than that, I'd ask one of our other nannies if she was interested (our FT nanny was always looking for more overtime at the time), or my mom would come in for the weekend.[/quote]

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