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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your situation is quite unique and it will take a very unique nanny to be able to work with you in this situation.

Regarding your old nanny. She didn't originally sign up for a job with a WAHP...when you changed the agreement, she tried her best it seemed to "go w/the flow." However, it is always a very dicey situation, a recipe for disaster when a nanny has to works alongside a parent in the home. Most of the times these situations fail for the exact reasons you stated. Parents want their cake and they want to eat it too. You wanted to work at home so you could be near your baby and have access to your child anytime YOU wanted to. That is so unfair to your nanny OP. When a child knows the parent is in the home, she acts completely different around her caregiver and it makes the caregiver's job much harder. Tenfold. Also, from what you described, it sounds like you didn't respect the boundaries that should have been already drawn between you and your nanny. You overstepped them often and that eventually chased away a good nanny. It is absolutely crazy that you only allowed an outing 2x a week. How absurd. A 14 mos. old can benefit from a daily outing...and it would help your nanny have more autonomy as well. Perhaps your nanny would have stuck around if you wouldn't have set so many rules. Anyway, it is all water under the bridge now. Your nanny is gone and she won't be coming back. Honestly, considering how you treated her, I am not surprised she didn't provide any notice. She probably couldn't take another day being micromanaged by you OP. No offense.

It will not be easy finding a nanny who will work alongside a parent who telecommutes, but it isn't impossible. 
I have a few suggestions for you however.
For the next nanny, I highly recommend you concentrate more on your work and less on your child. If you cannot do that, then I suggest you either quit your job or cut your hours since it wouldn't seem like you have it in you to be a working mother since you cannot balance your child with your work obligations.

Also, allow your nanny 100% autonomy. Let her take your child on daily outings. 
It's good for your child to get out and about every day and it is also good for your nanny to get out of the house and get some fresh air and interaction with others.

Try not to step on her toes and tell her what to do and what not to do, etc.
Let her do her JOB.

After all, that is what you are paying her to do, right?

Good luck.[/quote]

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