Would you hire a morbidly obese Nanny?

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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

Yes that’s what everyone’s saying - very overweight people shouldn’t be able to work 🙄

I wouldn’t. There was a morbidly obese staff member at Gdcs’ nursery. She couldn’t get down on the floor and up again, and the slightest exertion had her huffing and puffing. It was a problem just to bend down and pick a wee one up off the floor. However, since the other staff were fit, I dare say it didn’t really matter too much.

As a nanny, though, on her own, absolutely not.

Under bmi they are

i wouldn't have called myself super obese but at 37 I was - if I gained another st and been 18.5 I would have been in the morbid obese section

I can't get up and down off the floor because I'm a wheelchair user and I'm morbidly obese due to my medication and conditions. I teach 5-6 year olds. I can guarantee I'm a better teacher than most, yet people on this thread wouldn't employ me to look after one child let alone 30+
Ridiculous.

Hello! Me! I'm on a prescription liquid diet and can't eat food. I don't lose weight and am obese. HTH.

I'm sure you are a wonderful teacher, but a nanny has different duties.
Could you run up and down stairs, push a pram and all the paraphernalia needed when you take a baby out for walks and play etc?
Looking after 5-6 year olds is different to looking after a baby and a toddler.

I wonder how I managed with my own children 🤔

@TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis was it a recent hip replacement? I’ve had both done and look after a 4 month old and a 3 year old every week, I really hope their mum isn’t worrying. I had to take 6 weeks off looking after the 3 year old after each operation, she was around 8-9 months when I had my first one done and just over a year when I had the second one done but after the first few weeks were past, I was finally fully mobile and pain free for the first time in years.

I hope I don’t sound nasty by asking if it was a recent replacement, I’m just hoping the mum of those little ones isn’t secretly worried about me looking after them! I know everyone has different experiences with hip replacements though and not everyone goes back to how they were before the problems started.

If you were in a wheelchair then, it must have been hard.
Pushing prams around whilst in a wheelchair must be very difficult.

Iron deficiency anaemia and obesity link

Asthma link. Not actually steroid related but due to airway inflammation.

If you Google endometriosis and obesity, plus pulmonary nodules and obesity you'll get similar studies.

It's not ridiculous if you want your children to be able to run around with their Nanny though and get enough exercise during the day.

And teaching 5-6 year olds is completely different to being in sole charge of a toddler all day.

Surely you can see that?

I'm 5.8, around 20 stone. Used to be much slimmer when I was on a vlc liquid diet which made me lose hair and black out.

I can't do the splits but I too walk/run 5+ miles a day, lift heavy at the gym and have no trouble keeping up in HIIT/cardio based classes, unlike some much slimmer people - often to their open surprise/displeasure. I eat a Mediterranean style 'diet' i.e. lots of veg and seafood. Very little sugar. Perfect blood pressure and sugar levels, no known cardiovascular or other issues.

The ignorance and fat bashing on this thread is something else.

I’d be interested to know, so would OP possibly. How did you manage with babies/toddlers, presumably they were on the floor sometimes? How did you lift them up and down off the floor? How did you manage when they run off at the park etc.

I agree with @ShowerOfShites teaching 5-6 year olds who will do as you say in an enclosed area is obviously different to chasing after an excitable toddler.

It isn't ignorance. Your deleted comment criticised my comments so I've posted links as evidence.

It is understandably a sensitive subject, people are very defensive but it is a fact that someone who is morbidly obese, not just overweight, will be at risk of significant health issues. For them to be employed in a large corporation with sick pay etc fine but for a parent to privately employ someone they really do need to go with the candidate less likely to have fitness, sickness and mobility issues.

You sound extremely fit running 5m a day and eating a very healthy diet.

Even walking them down the road/crossing the road, would be very difficult once they're out of the pram/buggy stage.

ETA: I mean if you were a wheelchair using Nanny.

Fit but fat. My Gym trainer used to say that to me

but I was a couple of stone less than you at the time

according to bmi charts you are 42.8 and morbid obese

And your point is?

Point is for op nanny to be 50/60 bmi she must be very very overweight

or she has totally exaggerated

you can obv be heavy and classed overweight and bmi prove that

equally they can be overweight but be fitter then those who aren’t

But WHY would it??? Everyone on here seems to be constantly dashing after their children like roadrunner?? I don't think I've ever had to 'run' after any of my kids. They just... didn't need that. If you're perpetually chasing 2 year olds on the verge of mortal danger maybe you should have a look at your safety expectations and teach them accordingly.

With my arms.

I moved after them in my wheelchair, same as anyone else would with their legs.

If you think 30+ 5-6 year olds do what someone says, and not always in an enclosed area, you don't know many 5-6 year olds

Maybe you are more judgemental than me and more scathing. I don’t consider them to be morbidly obese. But I don’t personally know their BMIs like you clearly do.

Maybe your kids are very inactive? It’s normal for young kids to be running here and there and yes for a parent to be running after toddlers, which is why reins are suggested on so many threads.