When consulting confinement nanny agencies to hire nannies for confinement, it pays to pose the right questions, to check if personalities match, values align. One might seek to screen or interview various candidates, not simply to assess their training or experience, but additionally to check if one has any rapport with candidates, an important consideration, because confinement extends over a long term.
If you are considering hiring a nanny to assist you during your confinement period, here are some questions to ask that can help determine whether they are the right fit for you and your family:
1. What made you want to pursue this career?
It is possible to gain insight into how confinement services might work at home by asking these types of questions. It seems ideal if her answer is centred around seeking to aid clients’ postpartum recovery, or the infant’s wellbeing, or safety. Nonetheless, it would be unsatisfactory if her response was something like, “Working as a confinement nanny means making daily confinement meals,” since this will not suffice. It might be best to avoid hiring candidates who provide low levels of commitment in the event that you are seeking a nanny who can support you emotionally and care for your infant.
Having said that, ultimately, hiring a nanny is your prerogative, your priorities are up to you, and there are no wrong answers. A confinement nanny who cooks, prepares foods, may work out well for those who simply need proper and good confinement meals chefs.
2. What’s your favourite part about being a nanny? And what do you like least about it?
Aside from serving as an icebreaker, this query may provide insight into the personality of potential nannies. Depending on the answers you receive, you may be able to gain some insight into their personalities, character traits, or how they typically provide confinement nanny services. These are very informal questions, as well as honest and candid responses may provide one with a sense of comfort and reassurance.
3. How do you like to have your food organised?
Find out how many dishes hired confinement nannies will prepare during the course of a whole day. When you’re there, you might want to ask them what types of meals they can prepare. It is important to hire confinement nannies who are trained in breastfeeding techniques or have experience with tweaking confinement practices, in case mothers prefer nannies who are less restrictive about following confinement rules strictly.
4. What is your approach to baby routine?
Taking care of an infant can be stressful and challenging, particularly when you have to figure out when the baby needs to be fed or cleaned. When it’s time to feed sleeping babies, do nannies have to wake them up? If an infant cries, should a nanny deliver bottle feeding to ensure that the infant is not suffering from hunger pangs? How can one ensure that an infant is getting adequate nutrition?
It is important that confinement nannies address these concerns. Additionally, a nanny might assist parents in developing feeding schedules that ensure their infants are fed and content, while making sure their mothers get enough sleep.
Our confinement nannies at Super Nanny are trained in providing young infants with their first bath. Sometimes, nannies must calm stressed or agitated mothers, or assure mothers that infant crying is perfectly normal and will stop once the bath is over.
Sleep schedules are a complex process, and infants must learn to sleep when night falls or wake up when dawn breaks. Having confinement nannies available at home may be helpful to new mothers in helping their infants adapt to their new sleeping patterns.
A new mother usually fusses about changing diapers at just the right moment. Changing clothes may also be stressful for mothers, since infants scream, cry and fuss while it is being done. When you hire a confinement nanny, they can guide you through tried-and-true coping strategies.
5. What do you like to do in your free time?
Discover what hired confinement nannies enjoy doing on their breaks and after their workday is over. Examples include phone calls, naps, reading, organizing food pantries, and speaking with family members.
Asking Your Confinement Nanny The Right Questions
Finding a good confinement nanny is largely determined by luck, serendipity, or thorough research. A little homework and research may ease some of the postnatal stresses, burdens, and concerns. In order to ease confinement periods for mothers, confinement nannies can prepare nutritious meals, care for infants, and help with household chores.
Contact our confinement nanny agency today to find out more about our confinement services here at Super Nanny Services.