Jobs involving babies

[Babbiess]

Midwife is an obvious one but I am a bit too squeamish!

What jobs are there that work with babies? I absolutely love them and can’t get enough 😍

Have therapy for your issues relating to those few awful weeks post your birth OP.

Cuddling and loving babies isn’t in the job responsibilities for any job.

bit weird. it seems like something a child would say when asked what they want to do when they grow up. ‘Work with lovely little babies’

I agree with the last two posts- sorry OP. Perhaps your motivations surround your own broodiness and difficulties around your own birth.
Working with other people's babies may be the last thing to help you when you are feeling this way and unlikely to have another child yourself- it may prove to be tiriggering or overwhelming.

I am a breastfeeding counsellor- my work supports women. I rarely touch the babies- that is the mother's job.

My friend set herself up in business as a baby photographer. She mainly does newborn shoots and first birthday cake smash things. She loves it and there's lots of 1-3 day long courses to do on the job rather than one specific qualification needed.

I adore babies but having two of my own squeezed that out of me. Perhaps your broodiness stems from your own difficult experience with your newborn. I wouldn’t build a career out of that.

To be constructive, I agree with PPs that lots of jobs around babies don’t actually involve much cuddling of babies. You’d have to do something that stepped into the mother’s shoes entirely like a maternity or night nurse - but note that good ones won’t cuddle a baby for ages. They’ll feed, change and settle down.

Night nanny? We hired one for my younger son. Their job was overnight - giving him bottles, burping, change nappy, cuddling him while he went back to sleep.

volunteer to help out in baby wards? - it’s not a paid role but you are literally there to cuddle tiny babies because it’s good for them to be held and the nurses are busy. So you just sit snuggling them! I suspect you’d need to wait till your son is a bit older as he’s about to hit peak years for bringing constant bugs home from nursery/school and you can’t risk giving bugs to little babies.

Nanny specialising in young babies?

Post natal doula?

I definitely don’t think I need therapy because I like babies 🤔

Of course not, this is one of those threads where people seem to be enjoying being a bit unkind. I love babies too and am very taken by the idea of volunteering on a baby ward. If "baby cuddler" was a job description I'd be there like a shot... paid or not!!
Still I suppose it does help to balance the dream with reality.

I love babies, but I ended up as a secondary school teacher because 1) I liked the idea of teaching, 2) I like teenagers 3) I liked the subjects I teach 4) I liked the salary and working conditions.

Don't overlook pay and working conditions. In Britain (as a society), we do not value childcare - qualify for a career if money and time are ever going to be an issue. The caveat is that I have been time poor ever since I started my PGCE, but the salary compensates. I'm sure my hourly rate doesn't work out to be that great, but I'd still choose teaching over working in a nursery if I were your age now.

I mean it's not a paid job, but if you like cuddling babies. There are some volunteer opportunities in some hospitals to assist with babies born dependant on substances.

Obviously the nurses can't cuddle them all day, but it is proven that it relaxes them as they wean off, so some places have volunteers that basically just cuddle babies all day.

I will tell you though it's not for the faint hearted, I've seen many babies born to substance addicted mothers and they (the babies) really struggle. Lots of screaming crying and very unsettled.