Would you hire a morbidly obese Nanny?

[whompingwillo]

I would like to hire someone we’ve met for my 9 month old baby. She’s fab, great with kids, lovely, I have no concerns.

I would estimate her BMI is 50-60 and my husband noticed that it is a struggle for her to get up and down off the floor and he is worried that if baby was in danger she may struggle.

So what would you do? Do you think that weight could impact a job like this? I’m sure people of this weight have their own children and are safe to look after them?

YABU - morbid obesity could impact her ability to do this job

YANBU - she’ll be fine

It doesn't matter much if you speak Danish, Swedish or Norwegian. The languages are very similar.

That’’s up to the parent.
Looking to employ someone you need someone who can do all aspects of the job well. A very obese person would not be employed as a fire fighter. It’s practicality, not being judgmental.

But the suggestion that the OP sees how she would actually do the job is a fair one.

Yes and a pp objecting to terminology on the thread then repeatedly refers to those of a healthy weight as 'skinny'.

No.

Yes children can ‘catch the fat’ inadvertently. Most fat children have fat parents. If this nanny is cooking unhealthy meals and isn’t doing much exercise, then yes, of course OP’s DC will be affected by that.

And i'm telling you im my opinion and experience most morbidly obese people are more than capable of taking care of a toddler.

What most obese people can do is irrelevant as this nanny can't get off the floor for whatever reasons, most likely obesity.

Perhaps most can.
But this lady had trouble getting up and down from the floor, that, to me, would have been a sign she wasn't fit enough.
I will add, if a slim person struggled with this basic movement, I wouldn't hire her either.

That isn't what I meant and you know it, don't be obtuse! And no if you are taking care of someone else children as a nanny you cook what the parents want the child to eat.
Also again just because you are obese doesn't mean you are eating unhealthy food all day every day.

This is very true. Of course unhealthy lifestyles influence kids.

So they say, they could just be lying about the getting up off the floor struggle no?

My Mother is a delight. And was a life saver at a time when I was actually fighting for my life. But she does have issues with food, which have a lasting impact on her, and also impacted my child

the OP asked a question and I answered it with honesty. If we only want to hear one view we wouldn’t ask questions.

Well you could apply that argument to anyone and everyone on here lying.
Yes?

wow such a depressing read this thread is.

Gosh what world do you live in that you have never seen an obese teacher?

I live in London where statistically there are less obese people than other parts of the country. You'll see the same in most worldwide cities:

https://chatgpt.com/share/679e3c5a-6414-8011-9253-baae36bfab80

Can't say that I recall many obese people at work either. I work for a company with 3,000 employees.

Yes she’ll cook what the parents want the children to eat but the children will still see her tucking into her food/snacks or not moving much and children are influenced by the people looking after them so will seek to copy her. (But of course this nanny only eats salad and goes for a 5k run every day so I’m being unreasonable).

She struggled to get up off the floor ffs.

I struggle to get off the floor. I have a bad back.

Funny, speaking as an overweight nanny, the kids I look after only eat proper healthy, homemade food the days I'm there that I make from scratch. The mum literally only feeds them crap like fish fingers and chicken nuggets and she burns those. Believe it or not, even overweight people can cook.

Eggs fucking zactly, this thread is just an excuse to fat bash!

She will feed the same garbage to your child as to herself. Avoid.

@Ethylred Do you really think all nannies feed kids the same as they eat? Lots of nannies will have terrible diets. They feed children what the parents want them to be fed.

And what if she eats the same as the children, or extremely healthily? My size 6 friend struggles to get off the floor so it's not about being a fat bastard really is it?
I will say it again this thread is an excuse to slag off fatties!

Well I wouldn’t hire you as a nanny either.

And you know how she eats garbage how?

Dear God. The ignorance.