Cleaner bringing baby to work with her

I think she'll probably change her mind once she actually has the baby. It might be possible for a couple of months from five months on, if she gets a laid back one who sleeps a lot. But she might get an hourly feeder who doesn't nap. And even if she has an easy baby, after a couple of months they'll be moving and it will be completely impossible.

My baby is 4 months old and I consider it an achievement if I manage to achieve as much cleaning in a day as doing a small task like wiping around the bathroom basin!

Before you have a baby it is impossible to imagine just how time consuming they are. I had no idea and although my baby is an 'easy' baby the idea that I could take her with me to clean someone else's house is laughable!

Can completely understand her thinking but this would not work for me.

We pay for a cleaner because i cant get F All done with my kids around. Unless her child is a zombie she will have to ignore the child or cut cleaning corners. Wouldnt work for me.

Couldn't clean shit when mine was five months !

No! Have you got DC? Think about how little you achieved with a 5mo. If the cleaner were to manage it, it wouldn't be fair on the child as she'd have to pretty much ignore it between feeds. I once had to do a deep clean of our house when DD was 19 weeks. She was generally a fairly chilled baby and happy to entertain herself but she got thoroughly sick of being moved from playmat to jumperoo to bouncy chair after just over an hour and whilst you can do some things like Hoover & dust with a baby in a sling, I wasn't happy doing the kitchen or bathroom & squirting cleaners inches from her face.
Also, a 5mo is one thing. Probably quite stationary & may nap quite a lot. How will it work as they get older? Cruising? Crawling?

There is no way she can look after a small child, especially one which will be moving soon and clean.

If she can do the work, what's the issue? It is up to you to judge is her abilities slip, and act accordingly. But, ou should at least let her try.
Imagine what childcare will cost her out of what you pay.

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Honestly if the work was done to the same standard and was charged the same, it would bother me in the slightest. I would probably ask her to sign some kind of liability waiver incase the child became injured in your home, and make sure her insurance covers any accidental breakages.

If all was agreed but the standard was slipping, I'd put a stop to it though or look elsewhere.

I would probably give it a go but can't imagine she'll get much done. The main reason I have a cleaner is because it's impossible to clean for any length of time with babies and small DC's around.

I would give her the chance to make it work though. Childcare is expensive, wages are low. My cleaner has bought older children to play with mine and I'm fine with that.

It's not very realistic to expect that she will get much cleaning done with a 5 month old in tow - and once the baby starts crawling it will be impossible! I think you need to have a proper discussion with her about it - it's not practical at all really. I can see why she's suggesting it though - is hard to envisage leaving your baby when you go back to work.

Definitely no i'm afraid.

I wouldn't want my cleaner bringing a child because my house isn't childproof. I'd also worry that they would be distracted and not get as much done.

Would she make up the time she wasn't working due to feeding?

This isn't a viable option at all.

I would have to say no. Cleaning with a 5 month old is near impossible. Even more so when they start to move. I don't think much waning would be done.

Can't imagine she will get much work done tbh.....