A newborn care specialist usually works the first weeks or months, often overnight, helping with feeding, sleep and routines. Agencies that place them work a little differently from nanny agencies, and so should your questions.
Medical questions about your baby always go to your pediatrician.
Tammy Gold, LCSW, spent years matching families with nannies before writing Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin). Today she works beside families, and their agencies, as a neutral expert: defining the job, interviewing candidates, checking references and setting up the first 30 days.
Newborn support is temporary by design. Agree early on how long it will last, what routines the specialist will set up, and how they'll hand off to you or your nanny. A written daily log makes that handoff much easier.
For the weeks ahead, see newborn feeding schedules, baby sleep and crying and colic.
Well before your due date. Ask each agency about its lead time, since availability around popular dates can be limited.
Approaches vary. Agree on what you want in advance, and check sleep questions with your pediatrician.
She helps you define what you need, interview candidates the agency sends, and plan the handoff to longer-term care, drawing on her infant-care work and years of placing caregivers.
Define the role, interview candidates and plan the handoff. $189 for an hour.
$189
Screening call, reference questions, clinical interview, and trial-day checklist.
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