NP, not a nanny, and the OP seems a bit too ready to treat a baby crying as some kind of abuse. Babies cry. If she witnessed her hurting the baby, sure, post it here. Heck, call the cops! But "she put a pacifier in the baby's [baby she couldn't even see?] mouth roughly and s/he kept crying" is not a run for the internet scenario. Also if the baby [that OP couldn't see, again] was actually a newborn, why on earth would you assume the caretaker was a nanny? That's the age that the mother is most likely to still be home from work. Just an odd post all around, and I think that if you think only a nanny would object to it you might be a bit odd yourself.

My colicky baby would have been screaming his lungs out whenever you saw him and whomever was holding him. I would assume colic.

Yep racist insensitive ignorant and sad. Nannies are hard working people, underpaid and not appreciated. On top of that monitored and judge for the smallest things. Hopefully this op learned not to mess with us today.

Nut case not it^^^

Anonymous wrote:OP, you should have known that the nannies would come out in large numbers to defend a fellow nanny. Hey, everyone, she isn't talking about you - stop being so defensive!

I posted and I am NOT a nanny. OP is an it case and so are you.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you should have known that the nannies would come out in large numbers to defend a fellow nanny. Hey, everyone, she isn't talking about you - stop being so defensive!

4 is a large number now?

OP, by her own admission, never saw the baby. She was just making the racist assumption that a woman of color, pushing a stroller, in that particular neighborhood had to be a nanny and, better yet, that she was neglecting a young baby in pain because it was CRYING!!!! Yeah, sensible people came out to shame OP, as she rightly deserves.

OP, you should have known that the nannies would come out in large numbers to defend a fellow nanny. Hey, everyone, she isn't talking about you - stop being so defensive!

OMG, OP# You should have called police, CPS. Plus tackle her, hold her down until authorities arrive and arrest her for letting a baby cry!

You are a nosy, busybody who revels is causing trouble in the lives of everyone you come across. MYOB

While I truly support calling out bad nannies, I feel this is not a good example.

• You don't know if this woman was the nanny or the actual mother since by your own admission you never actually laid eyes on the infant at hand.

• Babies scream even when properly being cared for.
He may have refused the bottle, been overtired or just colicky in general.
She really has zero control if he is crying or not.
Now it would be different if this was an older child since they can communicate.
Unfortunately infants cannot so that is why oftentimes when they are screaming, the caregiver has little control of it.

I am a nanny to a three-month old & just yesterday she went into a crying rage.
I made sure her diaper was dry, she had just taken a nap yet she wouldn't take her bottle even though she should have been starved.
She has a very loud cry + she turned bright red, but she was tough to soothe.

Fortunately her mother arrived.
Can you imagine if her mother was the type to accuse me of neglect because I had a screaming, sweaty infant in my arms....??!

Stfu babies cry. My guess is she is going home for nap so mind your business you aren't the nanny police. Thumbs up to PP.

Right because newborns never cry unless they're in pain. Maybe she just fed him and he was tired and they were going home. Maybe he had a shot and was unhappy about that. Maybe he's colicky. Maybe it was her first day and he wouldn't take a bottle for her. Maybe it was her baby. Jeez. You don't know.

Today around noon, I was on 14th & T in front of the Saint Ex on my way to TJs, when I noticed a newborn screaming in a carseat-attached stroller. The nanny (tall, black, cropped hair, pink wave sleeveless shirt, jeans) was completely ignoring the infant. She had on a large white bluetooth earpiece and may have been listening to it. We waited at the signal for a full minute before crossing with the newborn screaming in pain. I finally stared at her, and she shoved a blue translucent dummy in his mouth quite hard, but he continued to scream, almost like he was extremely hungry or in pain. I did not see what the newborn looked like, because he had a blanket covering the top of the stroller/carseat attachment, but I could recognize from the cry and from the size that it was a very very young baby. If you know this family's nanny, please let them know. She did walk with me across the street and then up to U Street, so I was with her for a good 5 minutes during this time. I wish I had said something.