Au pair with no young child/baby experience

[whothefuckhas5children]

Hi,
I have a live out au pair/mothers help starting with us next week (we're outside UK so unsure if correct term to use).
We have 5 children, oldest is 8 and youngest are 6 months and 2.5 years.
I'm on maternity leave until the new year and DH is SAHP. Au pair is coming to ours in the afternoons for 3-4 hours.

I'm looking on advice on how to increase her knowledge of baby and toddler care so that she can mind them if we need to pop out (collect others from school etc). I don't intend to leave both with her at the same time.

She seems very capable. I'm sorting out a good paediatric first aid course for her but is there something else I could do?

TIA

Job role wise, Mothers/Dads Help is probably suitable as that is their key function - to be an extra pair of hands to do whatever you feel is suitable for them to do.

Show her what to do - so start from the basics of how to change a nappy, how to clean, how to hold, what parts of baby are particularly delicate. Then go on to try to teach about the different cries and how at certain times of the day baby is more unsettled than at other times and what they are likely to be needing.

Learning by observing and then doing. Reading a book may help if you can find something suitable in a language they can easily read.

Thanks Nannynick. Learning by observation is a great tip.
She has excellent/fluent English so will confirm if her reading is at the same level and head to the library.

Great tips

We had this last year- hmmmm...why does she want to look after children now? Does she have s long term interest in childcare as a job?

She au paired for a family for nearly 2 years. In the middle of it she went back home to start her degree but came back to the family a few months into it saying that she wanted to look after children.

If that's what she ultimately wants is love it for her sake if she enrolled in a course over here. I couldn't afford to pay for it but could look at shifting around hours to accommodate.

What I'd hate is if she left shortly into it and we have to start over again. It's a difficult process this!