Would like opinions from parents who use or would use a childminder. How would you feel about your childminder nursing their baby or toddler around your children?

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Would like opinions from parents who use or would use a childminder. How would you feel about your childminder nursing their baby or toddler around your children?

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Answer 1

I think what you're asking is - would it bother you if the nanny / babysitter / child-minder nursed her own child in front of your children?

No, it wouldn't bother me that she would nurse her child in front of mine as long as she realizes that if my child is verbal, he would ask about it. She would need to be prepared to answer questions.

The other part of the question is unspoken. Nursing a baby can take up to 40 minutes every 3 to 4 hours, so if you are nursing a baby, that's a significant amount of time that you cannot tend to the other children in your care.

Yes, you can interrupt the nursing and have your baby start to cry because you have to take care of something that came up with the other kids in your care. But when you are babysitting my kids, my kids need to come first. That's why I'm paying you to watch them.

Answer 2

dragonfly forty-six answered

I would never hire a babysitter who was still nursing. I do not have a problem with my children seeing a woman nursing in the same room. I do however have a problem with my babysitter nursing her own child while she is paid to attend to my children. There are enough babysitters who need jobs that I don't have to make that kind of choice.

Answer 3

Thank you! That's a great answer. Yes I would certainly need to have an answer prepared to help the children understand what is going on. I think with nursing a young baby it is very different, my son who is now 11 months feeds twice sometimes 3 times a day and for about 5 minutes at a time. It is not a full time job like nursing a new born.