Part time nanny - part time nursery?

I’d say at 1 yo I’d imagine it’ll be really hard to settle on doing 2 different caregivers at the same time

Can you find a childminder?
I wouldn't put an almost one year old anywhere near a nursery if I could help it.

My daughter is 1 and LOVES her childminder. She wakes up in the night asking for her friends there. She would go 7 days a week if she could. She goes 3 times a week, I wish I could afford for her to go less because she is growing up SO quickly. 8-6 5 days a week means you are barely going to see your child, I'd seriously have a look at reducing your hours if you can. I love my Wednesdays as just me and her and it's worth the reduction in pay to have that time

I nanny part time and meet this sort of set up often. It’s actually generally fine with children younger than 2+. It gets difficult once you really enter the 2/3 age range, because they are learning different expectations and boundaries from multiple care givers and there’s a lot to push back on. I currently nanny for 2.5 year old twins, so there’s me, the parents and the nursery with different set ups and ways we work etc and they find it pretty tricky- by the time I get back to them on a monday everything seems to have gone to pot over the weekend, I get things back in order by the end of Tuesday but then I’m gone again until the following Monday 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

So if you do go down that road, space out the nanny and nursery days if possible.

It’s very setting dependant. I’ve seen childminders out and about whilst nannying that I wouldn’t put a one year old baby near either.

Yes they do. They’re getting increasingly hard to find, though, good childminders.

Yes they do accept the free hours.

A one year old benefits from consistent loving care.
An institution cannot provide that, however 'good' it may be.
Your child will be one of 5-6 that an adult is looking after, it won't be the same person every day and may not be the same person all day.
A childminder will likely have a maximum of 3-4 children of a range of preschool ages - so a real home from home set up.

I would really recommend a childminder for a child of that age. Ask around and see if you can get some good recommendations from someone you trust (don't have someone who just packs them in, just to make more money.) Also, absolutely go with your instinct - if you get a good feeling, then go for it - if you get any kind of misgivings then don't . Also, I know it may not be possible but if there's any way you can reduce your hours, if even for a short time, then I would really recommend it. You definitely won't regret it

I do part-time nanny and part-time childminder. My DCs go together (age 1 and 4) and they both adore both ladies. They're like second mums imo, they love them. I picked the nicest women I could find when I interviewed for them both. I'm not keen on nurseries and particularly not for very young kids - but all my friends use full-time nursery.

The two caregivers is really nice for them I think, because the nanny days are at home just then two and more chill, so they have a lovely balance.

I preferred nursery to childminder for my almost 1 year old. It's small, family-feel, and he was very happy there. of course there was an adjustment period for him to settle but that would have been the case for a childminder too.

Do you have space at home if you/DP need to WFH and the nanny needs to have your DC at home too? I agree 2 new settings is maybe a bit tricky at that age.

I don't get the fawning love for childminders on here.

The staff ratio for under 2 is 1:3, so that’s simply not true that they’d be looking after ‘5 or 6’. They will also likely have a consistent qualified key worker. Stop spouting rubbish.

my kid was in nursery from 9 months , we had very bad experience with childminders. It was an amazing nursery but there is not a chance I could have put them in for such long days (8-6) and 5 days a week. You need to come up with another solution, you chose to have this second child and you have to work around it. I used a combination of accrued annual leave and annual leave to essentially drop a day a week whilst my child was under 18 months. We also picked up at 5pm and didn’t start until 8:30am. I’m guess you are a single mother with no contact from the father? We also split the week between us as to pickups etc. I would highly recommend you either look at a nanny for two days and. Nursery for three consecutive days (to help settling in) or really rethink your work situation.

Worked for 7s

Nurseries replicate the environment modern society has taken away from our children: a chance to socialise with lots of peers, as they would have if we still lived in close-knit communities where women cared for each other’s babies and toddlers grew up alongside one another.

We’ve learned from looking at isolated tribal societies that a baby is held by eight different people throughout the day and breastfed by at least two women besides their mother. A mother holds her own baby for only 40% of the day. We’re simply not made to raise our children the way we do now, and the lack of contact with peers and other adults has a negative impact on children reaching Reception age.

Any teacher will tell you how much more a child who hasn’t attended nursery can struggle compared with one who has attended from an early age. Since you have the opportunity to choose full-time nursery, go for it without regrets. A nanny wouldn’t offer those same social benefits.

We did something similar when my eldest was 11 months to 3.5 years. Nursery from 9-3 of which she was asleep two hours anyway. Then four days a week a part-time nanny picked DC up and took her to the playground, then home and I played with her while the nanny made dinner. It was a good compromise for us. They benefit from 1-1 care at this age, but also need interaction with other children. The kids were happy and settled with their nursery staff and they absolutely adored the nanny. We stopped because we moved and could no longer afford to have both in the UK.

Please don't be so rude.

Yes the child will have a key worker, but they won't be working 50 hours a week. So a fair bit of the time, the child will be with other adults.
1:3 might happen on the best days, but lots of nurseries cut corners to manage staff breaks and sickness. And one adult looking after 3 just turned one year olds will mean less individual attention than an adult looking after a range of ages.

The poster asked why I wouldn't put my child in a nursery and I responded to answer why not.

Nurseries certainly don't replicate our traditional past 🤔
In hunter gatherer societies siblings would have been spaced 3-5 years apart, children would have played in mixed age groups, care of one infant was shared between many, and adults definitely wouldn't be trying to care for 3 babies each in a room of 15 babies while also cleaning up, providing tuff tray activities and updating the app every 5 minutes.

And no teacher will tell you that children who don't attend nursery as babies 'struggle'. That's pure nonsense.
Part time preschool attendance the year before they start school has benefits.

I think a childminder is a much more "natural" like environment for kids. Mixed age groups are really nice for kids/babies, and a consistent caregiver is huge for attachment. Nurseries usually have a roster of different staff

It’s a legal ratio. A good nursery will do everything they have in their power to achieve consistency. I have not been rude, merely factual.

The 1:3 is of course the legal ratio for the building and any half decent nursery will abide by that.
In practice of course a lot of the time you are not physically 1:3 in the room/on the floor as some adults will be doing other tasks.
For example a room of 12 one year olds has 4 adults, but one adult is making bottles or clearing up snack and one is in the sleep room getting a baby to sleep so it's actually 2 adults playing with, comforting, supervising 11 babies.

This is nonsense. A nursery absolutely does not replicate a close knit community.

In these tribal societies/communities do babies only socialise with other babies and do they outnumber adults 3:1? Do they stay in one room the entire day?

Who decided that these tribal communities were the best example of child raising practices and something we should seek to emulate anyway?

Nursery absolutely has its place and it can be enourmously beneficial to some children but it is definitely not the ideal for most babies.

A nanny can and does offer just as many social benefits. She can attend playgroups and classes and organise playdates around the child's preferences and natural rhythm and routines.

In this situation I would definitely opt for both nanny and nursery. And I'd keep the nanny and nursery days consecutive (e.g nanny Monday and Tuesday and nursery the rest of the week) so that the baby can start to predict who they will see each day and the week has a predictable structure to it.