Advice on hiring a maternity nurse

Bougie this thread is 4 !/2 year old!!!
This is a chat forum not a site for reviewing maternity agencies.
So you are angry, but as you admitted the agency in question sought to resolve the issue. You say partly resolved so I am guessing you didn't get a full refund.

I used Deearna as well. She was absolutely amazing. Very easy to get along with and we had a very happy little girl in her hands. Even sleeping through the night by 5 weeks old!! (with a dream feed or two of course). Good luck with it all.

Sleepless night sorry about my spelling above

Hi I personally used Deearna's and Deearna herself. She was my birth partner and maternity nurse. She is known as a human baby whisperer. Lovely lady to work with and very discreet, we didnt want her to leave us.

She has an agency running for her under her name aswell that supplies maternity nurses if she is not free to do it.

Deearna will recomend you wait until about 16wks to book, she will also talk through an concerns realting to birth you have.

I highly recomend her and the lady who runs her agency is really easy to talk to

Hope this helps

We used Deearnas. An incredible person and maternity nurse and marvellous service.

We used her after comparing her to many others and none compared.

if you check out her site at...

www.deearnas-maternity-agency.co.uk

you will see her incredible references.

I would say wait until you are twelve weeks. We did and still had plenty of choice!

Good luck!

Tho i am happy to interview with mum's in early pregnancy and i am happy to 'reserve' the proposed time in my diary and accept no bookings that would overlap/be too close i do't sign contracts till after the 16/20 wk abnormalities scan, reason being know a MN mate who had a family that had to cancel/deposit refund etc after life incompatible finding.

My contract states that interview costs are payable in the final invoice, so interview and no job then no travel expenses payable.

I would recommend Greycoat Maternity - Jo Winn is fab.

And yes i am booked until xmas and have been since early May.

Ideally the MN should bill you for it.

I've never being paid for my travel costs except for my overseas ones. I do write it off as a business expence which I assume you can't do if the family pays travel expenses.

How did interview go?

childcare.co.uk is a good place to look as well.
I use it as a maternity nurse and got my last booking from there.
Also am registered with Maternally yours and Night nannies and find them both to be great.
AxisofEvil and PDR - please contact me at swlondonnanny at yahoo.com if interested to see my CV and references. Thank you.

Four weeks sounds fine. I've only done one position starting four weeks after birth (usually start just out of hospital)and it was one of my favourite positions. Baby was easily settled onto a routine that the parents were happy with and was great giving the mother confidence to have the baby by herself.

Thanks all. We've got the 12 week scan later this week so I don't want to do anthing prior to that but may start looking into it after that.

We were thinking of getting them in from when Dh goes back to work which would probably be at about the 4 week mark - does that sound sensible or too late?

I'd add recommendations for Eden and Nannies Inc to Maternally Yours.

I really would recomend Maternally Solutions - they are supportive and helpful.

Maternally Yours is also good.

Also my email is nz us uk @hotmail.com I have space available for next year.

Book one asap. Most importantly make sure you really like her - we left our booking too late and ended up with our second choice (7 months before birth). She was nice enough, but after 6 weeks I was desperate for her to leave.

Ask about her expectations as to evenings - I'd have really appreciated a few quiet nights eating junk in front of the tv with DH, rather than a full sit down meal EVERY night with her! Also, ours didn't mention that she was vegetarian until the day she arrived after we'd spent a fortune on nice pre-cooked meaty meals! (And that was in spite of me asking a couple of times prior to her arriving, whether there was anything she liked/disliked eating )

I think we used Maternally Yours, and they were very good; I also registered with others and they were a bit useless.

I'm potentially looking to get one from January onwards. Where do people normally get their MN from - agencies (any recommendations?) or elsewhere. I'm in London.

If you're going to have help from your husband it may be best to book MN two weeks after due date.

In my contract I have it written that I get paid half my normal pay if baby is being born late. It also says I will only work from start date in contract - I've had a couple of babies born early, one I was able to start as wasn't already in work and the other they had to wait three weeks.

It's usually written in contract that I start on due date, except for one who employed me for a whole month before due date - baby arrived on due date! It was a long wait.....

Agree with the above comments, we do get booked fast. My next position starts next week and I signed the contract end of January!

I think it's very important to have a good "click" with the person. Also ask about experience with BFing (if you will be); what nursary duties she will do; what she will do with older child; aim for baby and how to acheive aim (eg routine). Experience is very important, so make sure you check ALL references and ask questions on how they relate to your family.

The agencies will tend to be pushy - that's how they work, they push us maternity nurses too! Good luck with the search!