Nannies advice needed

[naughtymummy]

I am thinking of starting a nanny share with a friend for 3 days a week, we each have a baby and a toddler. The toddlers go to nursery and finish at 4pm very close to my freinds house. The nanny would have sole care of 2 babies (5 and 8 months) until 4pm then collect the 2 toddlers give them tea and supervise tv until parents got home around 530 .They are both nearly 3 and toliet trained. I wonder if this would be too great a work load for a nanny ? or do you think it would be ok. The nursery could have them till 6 but i think it is better for the children to have tea at home if possible. Thank you for your ideas.

Just as long as you got an experienced nanny, with common sense and was propbably on the stricter side and hopefully the toddlers get on well enough and the babies slept a decent amount in the day so the nanny could prepare dinner in advance, can't really seee a problem tbh. Good luck

I dont think thats too much to ask of a nanny at all...

lots of nannies are used ot having more than 1 or 2 chidren regardless.... often because parents with loads of kids find a nanny cheaper than 3 or 4 nursary places!

Thank you for your input think it would need to be an experienced nanny anyway to care for 2 babies. Just worried about the extra work at the end of the day when everyone is tired.

Really shouldn't be a problem for any experienced nanny at all - they just need to be organised

I think the situation is doable. Make sure you and your friend have all the details worked out before you go down this road. You wouldn't want something to go wrong with the nanny share that might jeopardize your friendship.

What if a child is sick? Would you still have nanny look after them all, or would you need to stay home from work? What if one on the older ones is sick and can't go to nursery? Does nanny take on an older child during the day? Who buys the food? What kinds of food not acceptable? Where is their time spent? And so on...

Talk about every unlikely scenario that you can think of and write the contract accordingly.

I share my nanny and agree with Uwila re: discussing food, sickness etc. I've shared with 2 different families so far, and in both cases there has needed to be a lot of discussion over how/when nanny takes holiday ( it needs to be convenient for both families) - def. worth discussing that between yourselves and with future nanny and trying to pick the weeks a good few months in advance.
Oh, and my nanny looks after her own toddler, one toddler 'charge' and two 3 year olds (in part-time nursery) and my 5 year old so it is an ok workload - but we have a timetable written out and try not to have all 5 children around at once for more than a couple of hours.