We had a nanny come today to look after Sebastian - he was sent home from daycare on Monday with a fever over 101, and is not allowed to return until he's been fine for 24 hours. Since we both needed to work today, we used a service provided by Columbia called Backup Care. Basically, it's an agency that subcontracts with childcare centers and nanny agencies to provide emergency backup childcare service.
In theory, we love the idea, and it's clearly a necessary option when you both have to work on a certain day. (Kids get sick, daycare centers close, nannies get sick or take vacation, etc.) In practice, we both spent the day feeling terribly anxious. Christie arrived this morning at 7:30 and seemed perfectly nice, competent, etc. But it was very hard to leave Sebastian in our home with a stranger, and very strange to come back at the end of the day and have so little idea of what he and she had been up to. And he cried when we left and was very subdued when I returned, which didn't thrill me. It made me realize more than ever that daycare is the better choice for us (unless the nanny is a family member, like Trish or Mom Raab).
No comments:
Post a Comment