Baby Care and Nannies at Home in Bangalore
Someone reliable for a new baby — and, where a household needs it, a house maid or an attender to sit with a patient in hospital.
What baby care at home covers
A trained baby carer takes on the daily work a newborn or infant needs and a recovering mother often cannot manage alone: bathing and oil massage, nappy changing, sterilising bottles, preparing and giving feeds, settling the baby to sleep, and keeping the feed and sleep routine steady day to day. Weight, temperature and feeds are written down rather than remembered, so the paediatrician has something to read at the next visit.
After a delivery, the mother needs looking after too
Most calls about a newborn are really about two people. In the weeks after a delivery — and particularly after a caesarean — the mother needs rest she will not take on her own, help getting up and moving about, and someone competent with the baby at night so she gets a few unbroken hours. That is usually the difference between a household coping and a household exhausted by the third week.
A nanny is not a nurse, and with babies it matters most
A baby carer or nanny is trained in the practical care of a healthy baby. She is not qualified to carry out clinical work. If the baby was premature, is under treatment for jaundice, is on tube or syringe feeding, has a surgical wound, or needs oxygen or monitoring, the case needs a nurse rather than a nanny — and we will say so rather than place the wrong person. Tell us what the paediatrician has instructed and we will tell you which of the two it is.
Nannies, house maids and hospital attenders
Alongside baby care we place three other kinds of household and hospital staff. A nanny for the ongoing care of a baby or young child, on day, night, 24-hour or live-in cover. A house maid for cleaning, cooking, laundry and general household work — often the thing that actually frees a family to look after a patient or a baby themselves. And a hospital attender: someone who stays with an admitted patient in the ward, helps them to the bathroom, feeds them, keeps the bed and bedding clean, and is there overnight so a relative is not sleeping on a hospital chair for a week.
What to ask us before anyone starts
Ask for the person’s name and to meet or speak to her before the first day. With a baby, or with any live-in placement, that is not an unreasonable request and you should be wary of a provider who resists it. Ask which identity document has been seen and what references have been taken. Ask what languages she speaks, because a carer who cannot follow the household’s instructions is a safety problem rather than an inconvenience. And ask who covers the shift on the day she cannot come, because eventually somebody cannot come.
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Describe the situation on the phone and we will tell you what level of care it actually calls for.