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[ANannyNeedsAdvice]

Hello!

I am in need of some advice and it would be great to hear other people's opinion on my matter. At the moment I am a live-in nanny for a family with a little one aged 2, MB is pregnant again and will go on ML very soon. We have a good relationship and I work the family since the mother returned to work from her last ML, so nearly 18 months. MB has planned to stay at home for ten months, a period I can not imagine working alongside her despite our good relationship. I feel like she is not trusting me e.g she would tell me everyday things that I know. For example she would tell me everyday that I need to take sun hat, sun cream etc. There are all things that I know, it is my job after all to look after her child. In all the time I have worked for her I have never given her a reason not to trust me, I adore LO and do everything for him. They want to keep me on but for several reasons I am dreading it a lot and I am currently planning to change my job.

Does anybody have experience staying on while MB was on ML? Am I worrying about nothing?

I have stayed and it was not a problem, however didn't have a boss who kept reminding me to use suncream.

How were they before they were pregnant? Hormones could be affecting their anxiety and thus why they are telling you thing you know to do.

Only you know if you could get along. Could you spend a lot of time out of the house?

Cindy,

no she has always been like it. I can handle it when she is at work and I see her for 5 minutes in the morning and we communicate only by email during the day. I am very self-sufficient, certainly not stupid and she is the first employer to do this. All other employers appreciated my work and never did this. I am dreading her going on maternity leave since she told me she is pregnant nearly five months ago. It is not just her but her mother keeps calling her complaining about me that I am doing things wrong. I go out a lot and sorry yes not everywhere is shadow. According to GM children shouldn't be in the sun. That is just one example but send me over the edge last Friday when a nanny friend and I spend the day at the beach had a fabulous time and three tired, but happy, children, all children were well looked after, sun hats on, sun cream applied every hour and we even took a small tent for a bit of shadow and I come home getting told that hopefully I put on sun cream on him etc. Yes, I did and I was so busy looking after your child I forgot to put sun cream on myself. I am angry, sad and disappointed that she doesn't trust me after eighteen months. I do everything for this child including looking after him at the weekend for short periods unpaid so that MB can have a lie-in, work in the garden and cook in peace and she is like this.

I will try and talk to her tonight.