Wife and I are looking at doing a nanny share starting after due-date in Aug with a family we don’t know (due in July). They brought the nanny to the equation and essentially need us. The live 15 mins away and ask to be the host house. Anyone done this? Have pros/cons?

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We currently nanny share, although we are very close with the other family, and we alternate houses every 2 weeks.

Pros - save cash and our kid has a friend to play with all day
Cons - we don’t have any, but we probably wouldn’t have done the share with a random family tbh…

If you plan to go ahead, be sure to agree on other variables: who pays for the food, diapers, do you need additional high-chairs, cribs etc

Sorry can’t be of more help. Good luck!

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Good stuff, and makes sense. It appears to be common for big cities with a lot of transients (DC) who don’t know anyone to reach out and find others in a similar situation.

DC based as well. We started down that path then had to back out of the nanny share before we landed on a nanny. The meet and greets went fine but the more we talked about the actual nuts and bolts of things, we realized the other couple was going to be very difficult to work with. We ended up at a daycare nearby which is great… when it’s open. That’s been it’s own special nightmare. Starting to rethink a share again or my wife taking over.

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We did a nanny share for the first year and we really liked hosting. We didn’t have to get our kid ready in the morning, pack a bag, kid gets to sleep in his crib, etc. Not sure we would make the same decision if we were WFH, but something to think about.

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Yea, that’s where we’re at as we both WFH. The other house is just the mom WFH, and she’s adamant about wanting to host (also their second, but our first). We like the idea of not having the baby in the house as my wife thinks she won’t be able to “tune it out”

I’m sorry. I’m not sure about what you are trying to say.

We split a nanny in town. M/W at our house and rest of the week at another family. Works out well with 6 month old.

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