I have slept in my employers bed before.I have done it because:

1. The little one wants someone to cuddle with while he takes a nap so MB cuddles up with him for his entire nap and she expects me to do the same. I try not to fall asleep while laying there.

2. When they go on vacation, I petsit for them. Since they have 7 animals, it is easier if I just sleep there. Their bed has one of those motors that makes the back of the bed lift up if you want to watch TV in bed. I like that, so I sleep in their bed while they are gone.

Anonymous wrote:Unless you have "cooties," it isn't a blip! Change the sheets. Why do some of you make your lives so difficult!?

Oh stop! What is so difficult about making other arrangements - like the older kids taking the parents bed - if the nanny doesn't feel comfortable? My employers bed undoubtedly smells like my DB - way, way too much cologne.

Unless you have "cooties," it isn't a blip! Change the sheets. Why do some of you make your lives so difficult!?

Can you borrow or run out and pick up a cheap monitor? As a nanny I would feel very uncomfortable sleeping in my employers bed. Especially if I thought I'd be sleeping in the guest room.

While I would not be comfortable sleeping in your bed, I also would not be comfortable sleeping in my employers' bed. Have the two older kids sleep in your bed and let the nanny take one of their beds.

Change the sheets and wash the comforter or get a different one. I would not be comfortable with young kids being two floors away.

I wouldn't mind. As you say, you are changing the sheets so what is the problem? I would be okay with this.

-A nanny

We are going away this weekend Friday and Saturday night for my sister's wedding. Kids are 3, 5, 7, and 9. They don't generally wake up at night, but sometimes my 3 year old will get my 5 year old to wake up at 3am and read him a story (he knows she is the biggest sucker), and I have to go in and put him back in his own room. I think he may wake up while we are gone since we haven't left him overnight before.
Anyway, I was going to ask our nanny to sleep in the guest room, but it is down in the basement, one floor below my 3 and 5 year old, and two floors below my 7 and 9 year old. We don't have the baby monitor anymore, and I am not sure she will hear them if they get up. I am inclined to just put fresh linens on the bed in the master bedroom and ask her to sleep there. It is right next to the three and 5 year old, and it is easy to hear the older kids upstairs.
Is it weird or gross to ask her to sleep in our room? Or is this kind of typical for parents going out of town?