Both parents working shifts...what to do about dc's??

[MadameOneSword]

I'm currently on maternity after havin ds3 last month. I became fully qualified with the ambulance service 8 months ago (bad planning I know!) and when I return to work I will be required to work shifts that could cover days or nights. Which would be fine.....HOWEVER...dh works for LFB who are also required to work shifts which could be day and night. Previously I've been happy to leave two daughters with my mum or his mum when the big shifts clashed but with baby I'm not so sure I could ask so much of them!!! Baby sitting in the day is one thing but overnight is a lot to ask!!!

Anyone in a similar situation? Is it best to start looking for a nanny? If so we dont have any spare rooms!! Would a live out nanny be able to provide overnight care?

Any advice would be gratefully received!!

Some good ideas and I have found places that offer flexible days, however, you need to be able to give a month or so notice and I can't do that, we get our rota at such short notice and oh gets shifts on a sat for the week ahead. We are not allowed to work set days or even have the same day off each week, it was hard enough getting days off for hosp appts when I was pregnant!!
Anyone know of super flexible child care in east Yorkshire?! Hope I haven't hijacked OP

Not at all! In fact I'm glad to see there's others in similar position schadenfreude it's good to know we're not alone, I've had two offers from nannies on here already, maybe you'll find similar

(and mrs i covet your husband!)

mrs your same county as me - im sure had i looked hard enough i would have found someone but it seems so silly as my youngest is 15 and she would flatly refuse childcare at her age....

Think I'm really lucky as my trust is very good about emergency child care leave. My youngest is now 16 but has ASD and so I'm reluctant to leave him overnight yet and they've been fine when DH hasn't managed to get back from business trips away.
I don't know how people manage with younger ones though, hats off to you.

Errr why vicar?! Maybe we have met! Is there some sort of MN secret handshake

why what?

....sorry am being thick - i dont mean your rl husband i mean your user name husband.....im a criminal minds fan too!

Ah ok makes sense now!! He is lush

This is exactly why I gave up my profession, and put my career on hold...DH is also a shift worker. It would have been too much in the early years to pass the children from pillar to post when both are working shifts. I will return to my profession once they are older and in school. It's not great when you both work night shifts and get your roster at late notice (which is often the case).