Our nanny has recently told me she is pregnant, with her due date supposedly tying in with when she went home to see her husband in the summer. However, a friend of hers told me, quite innocently that Nanny's baby is due two months earlier than she claims (she certainly looks more than 20 weeks gone). The dates she has given me are supposed to tie up with her visit home in the summer, but do not (she is a month out). We sponsored her husband to come here in February for a 2 week visit, and now strongly suspect that he never went back (with the fruit of his illegal stay much in evidence!). He miraculously appeared when she returned from leave, as her dependent, but I have since found out that for him to be here under these circs, we would have had to have completed several forms agreeing to support and accommodate him. I tackled her about all this and the discrepancies on Friday. She stuck to her story on her dates, and I have now asked her to bring her husband's passport in, "to see if he has been given the wrong visa". She didn't look very comfortable when I was asking her the questions (I wasn't confrontational). She has now gone sick (first time in 18 months). I also asked her what she was going to do for childcare for her own child when it arrived, and she said she was planning to bring it to work with her. I said no way. She lives in most of the week, but rents a bedsit in the next town where she disappears to a couple of evenings a week and at weekends. I feel that she has deceived me over her husband's stay (if he is found and deported, we would probably be liable for the costs of his deportation), and that I can no longer trust her. If I sack her after her maternity leave (which is the earliest I can do), I will feel guilty as the family depend on her salary, and she would probably have to return to her country of origin. The kids also like her. But on the other hand, she has brought this upon herself! Any advice? She is not a great nanny - I was planning to have a word with her when she returned from holiday in the summer, but she seemed to have turned over a new leaf (now I know why!) so didn't. She is now even lazier than usual, and is getting on my nerves. I've been off work recently and she seems to spend the whole morning (when the kids are at nursery school, and when she is supposed to clean) with her feet up on the sofa reading a magazine and watching Kilroy or hiding in her room. A suggestion that she might do some cleaning, if she had nothing better to do, met with the response "Later". She knows I can't sack her for the next few months and seems to be making the most of it...