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[quote=Anonymous]I had always assumed that when I had kids they would go to daycare, because I'm the primary breadwinner while DH has his own business, it's definitely not as stable as my job.  About halfway through my pregnancy, I mentioned looking at daycares, and DH said absolutely not.  In his family, all the mom's had always stayed home with the kids, and while he knew that this wasn't possible for us, he wanted our kids to have a nanny to have dedicated care in the early years.  Looking back, I'm very glad that he pushed for that route because it's been great.

Our first nanny was a referral from a close co-worker who used her as her weekend sitter and knew she was looking for a full-time position.  She was great and worked for us for almost 3 years before leaving the nanny profession for optometry.  Our second nanny I found on Care.com.  For the first couple of years she was great, unfortunately she decided to go back to school full time and wasn't able to really juggle the course load and working full time, so it was actually a relief when she quit a year ago.

Our current nanny I found on Sitttercity.com.  She is amazing with the kids and helps keep everything running very smoothly in the house.  I learned more in the interviewing process this time.  Our current nanny is by far the most professional of the 3.  She was the only candidate who showed up with her resume and reference letters without me having to request it.  She let me know in advance what tasks she was willing to do (laundry, changing kids sheets, etc) and what she was not comfortable with (cooking anything more adventurous than pasta or frozen chicken tenders, etc).

If you do want to forgo the agency, it is possible to find good nannies on your local listserv or Care.com or Sittercity.com, however you will definitely need to weed through a lot more applicants to find them.  I had so many people apply for the job despite clearly not fitting the job requirements (we needed someone with their own transportation, who was available until 6pm everyday, etc).  It was frustrating, but luckily we had more notice this past time and weren't rushed to find someone.  [/quote]

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