DD will be 2 and a quarter when baby number two is born in Dec-Jan. Both DH and I are cr*pping ourselves! DD has just started to refuse her daytime nap and we just generally feel as you can sometimes, two years into this knackering business. Though of course dd is utterly wonderful and I think really quite "easy" as they go, apparently.
Anyway, DH is wanting an au pair because of course it means we get a lot more hours help. We would only be able to afford about 10 hours a week otherwise. Also BTW we are not happy about putting DD into nursery until she is three, that´s just how we feel, (unfortunately).
But, we are moving back to our small house in ENgland next month, three bedrooms but one v small and I just think it would be a nightmare. The baby would wake the au pair up in the night, I would have no other room upstairs to go to if I want to in the night, she would probably wake me and or the baby up with bathroom-loo TV noises etc and it just stresses me out thinking about it.
So, has anyone ever had an au pair in a small house?
Do you know anything about sharing an au pair/nanny type person, whatever? And wouldn´t they be knackered because they are already looking aftersomeone else´s kids?!
And is there a rule about how big their bedroom should be because if she had to have DD´s old room and DD has the box room that is going to be horrible.
Thanks everyone. From Stressed Out Just Thinking About It.
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Elf · 29/08/2003 11:12
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