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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) You will be very hard-pressed to find a share family open to joining a share with twins.

2) What is your space like?  I know space in NYC is at a premium, so are we talking 2-bedroom apt?

3) Even in NYC, $3500 per month is a decent nanny wage, even for twins.  Focus less on someone with formal education and look for someone with lots of infant (preferably including twin) experience.

4) Even if you could find someone willing to do a share with twins, you need to be prepared for one or both twins to have additional medical needs.  Twin pregnancies are HARD.  What is considered full-term for twins would be premature for a singleton, and many twins are born even earlier than that!  Reflux is more common as are NICU stays.  I am not saying this to scare you, just trying to help you realize that a nanny share where the nanny has 3 infants would be tough in ideal circumstances (3 healthy babies who are able to be in a normal schedule and nobody is high-needs).  If you have a baby who just got out of a NICU stay and needs to be fed on an alternate schedule due to reflux (for example), that is going to make a 3-infant share unsustainable.

In conclusion, I agree with the general consensus that you should look for a way for your wife to work from home alongside the nanny or for her to go into the office a few days a week or something that allows you to host the nanny in your own space.  The good news is that an experienced twin nanny should quickly have them napping simultaneously and eating on a schedule, so if your wife’s concern is noise during calls she can start to plan for calls to happen during predictably quiet windows by around 4-6 months.[/quote]

OP isn't in NYC...[/quote]

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