I found that I couldn’t reply to the previous message, so I can only post a new review.
1. This maternity nanny started testing from the very first day on the job, constantly using purchases to see whether the employer was easy to push around.
2. I don’t know what other maternity nannies’ schedules are like, but this nanny slept until at least 8 a.m. every morning, only getting up after the baby woke up. Then she would hand the baby to me for feeding before going downstairs to make breakfast. During the interview, the only thing I specifically asked her about was that our home has a second floor and that I needed the nanny to bring meals upstairs. She readily agreed that it was no problem. If she is older, feels that going upstairs is too physically demanding, lacks the stamina, and also has heart problems (she herself said that she often feels heart discomfort while working jobs), then she should stop working as a maternity nanny. I also don’t know how she calculated going up and down ten or twenty times a day. I only remember that many times when the baby was crying and needed a diaper change, we called for her upstairs and got no response, and even calling her phone got no response. In the end, my partner had to come up and change the diaper.
3. Maybe the nanny forgot what she was doing during all those phone calls downstairs every day in the first week? Did she also forget that every afternoon and every evening she was video calling her family? How does picking vegetables take two hours? But for someone who takes four or five hours to make just a little over 50 dumplings, maybe that’s normal.
4. Originally, I let the nanny being slick slide and didn’t make an issue of it, since she was recommended by a friend, and the baby didn’t have any major problems in the first week. So in the second week, I let the nanny sleep alone in a room with the baby. I even tolerated that she didn’t want full-room monitoring installed in the baby’s room, and I tolerated that she refused to feed under the camera. That was already a lot of trust, wasn’t it? A 7-day-old newborn with a jaundice level of 19 being fed only once every 5 hours at night—not because she overslept, but because “the baby sleeps a lot”—doesn’t it sound very unprofessional for a maternity nanny to say that?
5. I had breast massage/unblocking done three times, and every time she would stand by and remind me that one session normally costs 300 dollars or so. I don’t understand—if these are all service items already written into the contract, why emphasize it every time as if she were making some huge extra effort? Isn’t this part of her job responsibilities?
6. Once the nanny started taking care of the baby herself, she fed the baby after 4.5 hours the first night, 4 hours the second night, and 5 hours the third night. Doesn’t she understand that a baby with high jaundice needs frequent feeding and bowel movements? And she still says she didn’t do anything wrong? On the morning we terminated the contract, I told her that day would be counted as a full workday and that the remaining balance would be refunded or settled accordingly. Has she forgotten how she responded at the time? Her memory really isn’t great. She probably also doesn’t remember that when I was very worried about the baby’s jaundice, instead of reassuring me, she directly said that I had postpartum anxiety and that “pregnancy makes women stupid for three years.”
7. This nanny worked in my home for a total of only 12 days. From the way she replied, does she mean the baby had already started practicing lifting their head at 12 days old?
8. Writing this, I realize this nanny is not only slick but also malicious. She made mistakes and still argued back and shirked responsibility. Everyone, avoid her.