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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do hate it when MB decides to stay home.  I'm on camera all day long so it isn't a matter of her checking up on me - it's the constant interruptions and intrusions into our usual happy routine.  The baby cries and she comes in (it is so much worse when the baby wants me to console him and not his mother).  The baby laughs and she comes in.  The baby is FINALLY happily playing on the mat during tummy-time and she picks him up.

I know I would never accept any position where the mother even occasionally worked from home.  [/quote]

You all flatter yourselves. I have had the same nanny since my child was under 2. Son loves her dearly (as do I) but if there is a problem and both of us are there my kid always always always wants mom over anyone else. I suspect that is true in most every other situation as well. [/quote]

There are many, many times when my DS has reached for the nanny instead of me or wanted the nanny when he was crying.  My DS is happy to see DH and I when he come home at night but clings to his nanny if I stop in for lunch.  Of course my son loves me and our bond is strong and deep.  But he has a routine with his nanny and something in his mind that he and nanny are going to do later that day -- and when I walk in he thinks that Nanny is going to leave and he will not get to go to the park or library or whatever they normally do or she has told him they were going to do.

I don't think the nannies are flattering themselves at all.  There was an article in the NYT a few years ago about a mother who fired her nanny over her child wanting to be held by the nanny and not her.  I'm sure most nannies hate it as it might mean they could lose their job.  [/quote]

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