Would you employ an overweight nanny?

I was a nanny and now a mummy to my 9mth D. I am overweight and not due to the fact that I haven't lost my pregnancy fat either.
I was not a lazy nanny- I did more than most parents I worked for put together and as someone quite rightly said- being overweight does not affect they way I care for children or the food choices I give them. I do eat healthily- just too much! lol

im a nanny and not over weight. i eat well as do my charges and i eat with them luncg and dinner every day.

Most nannies i know (but not all) are really rather large...
in fact i know more larger nannies than those who are not over weight.

BTW all the larger nannies that i know are excellent and i would be only yo happy to leave MY kids with them! (if i had kids that is!)

Sorry Anna, I gave you a very curt answer earlier on on this thread, I didn't realise you had been unfavourably treated because of gaining some weight. This is ridiculous and totally unfair. Anyway you don't want to work for such unreasonable employers, they'd be a pain in the neck!

I hope you find a position you enjoy soon!

ssd xxx

Oh yuk, I don't know if I like the idea of my baby cuddling in someone elses boobs. I thinkI'll seek a flat chested fat nanny. Or maybe a fat male nanny.

I'm just kidding of course.

hell no - a fat nanny might actually do more, and have more energy than I do and I'm only marginally overweight!!!!!

Obviously I would employ an overweight nanny, as long as she wasn't from Chezch Republic, Austria, Poland - or England, and didn't want paying too much

I am very very cuddly

Not at all boney and knobbly

Definitely, especially little babies seem to love a big pair of boobs to burrow into.

Getting off the subject of nannies I used to have 2 friends. To look at us you could call us small medium and large, I wont say which was which but believe you me large could be far more energetic than small.

Also I might add my sis is a nursery nurse and Id say 90% of her colleagues are overweight, not to mention maybe obese. Yet all of them I'd class as excellent candidates for a nanny. Better than my friend small any day!

Best nanny in the world looked after my kids. She was not a size 8....

Anna is a nanny (she has said so on another thread).
FWIW, unfortunately there are a lot of shallow people out there Anna. Choosing a nanny is a major decision for anyone, but most "normal" people would employ someone for their experience and personality and on the basis that they could trust that someone to look after their most precious possession, their children.

Sorry posts crossed.
Well you can see Anna that most of us don't judge on this basis. Just look energetic and be full of beans when you go for your interviews to dispel the idea straight away.

You're right of course Uwila. I just don't really have much unhealthy food in the house so there isn't the option.

I think you might be onto something RTKM. Has AIM failed to get a job on this basis?

I was thinking the same thing, Kanga. BTW (radical subject change here), how's your DH?

What about a skinny nanny working for a fat family?

If nanny wanted to give the child an apple and parents wanted child to have cake?

WHO IS RIGHT THEN?????????

DISCUSS..................

I don't care what she eats on her own time and away from the kids. But I do most certainly care what she eats in front of the kids, as I beilieve it is very important for a nanny to lead by example. If she gives DD an apple and she herself sits down with a piece of cake, well which one is DD going to want?

ANNA it is interesting because I am not sure what kind of reaction you wanted

What have you been told?

Are you FAT?

I don't really care what she eats herself as long as she feeds the kids good food (which generally is what we have in the house).
Hard to tell if someone is going to be lazy from an interview as you say lunarvix but I don't think weight has much bearing on the issue anyway.

And I was just thinking how quite the chilcare threads have been in the past few day....

If my nanny was fat because she was lazy and had poor nutritional habits then that would be a problem. But, the problem would be the laziness and poor nutritional habits, no the fact that she is fat. So, I suppose that being fat could be an indication of a problem. But, it is not in itself a problem. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of skinny nannies who aren't up to snuff.

This is an interesting question but rather strange.

I am very fat

I do sit here on mumsnet all day while watching tv

I do not eat alot cos that would mean getting off my fat behind and walking into the kitchen

I work as a childminder {part time} and when I am working I spend most of my time kneeling or crawling on the floor building railways, or running round the garden playing football with mindee.

I don't have time for mumsnet or TV

My DS is not fat {by any stretch of the imagination}

HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD YOU ARE TOO FAT FOR A JOB YOU WENT FOR ANNAINMANCHESTER?

IS THAT THE REASON FOR THE QUESTION?