Free guide for parents
What Your Nanny Needs to Know
Eight things to tell her in week one, before they are needed.
You already have a nanny. She may be lovely, experienced, and genuinely fond of your child.
And there is a set of things almost nobody tells a caregiver, which decide how the first months go.
Not because anyone is careless. Because they are counterintuitive, because nothing visibly goes wrong when they are missed, and because the moments they apply to look completely different from what they actually are.
By month three, a nanny who was not told what to expect has already built her own explanation out of what she has seen. It is usually the wrong one, and it usually involves her not being good enough.
Inside the guide
What is in it
- Why crying in the first weeks is expected, and what you want her to do about it
- Why he will resist her, and why that is the system working
- Where contact naps sit, and the one safety line that does not bend
- How a goodbye should go, in three parts, and why nobody sneaks out
- The two things to agree in advance so she is not guessing at four in the afternoon
- Why you want to hear about the bad days
- And the one thing to check that most families never ask for
From the guide
A caregiver who only reports good days has made all her reports worthless. If you cannot hear about the difficult afternoon, you cannot trust the account of the good one either.
Lauren WeberWhat Your Nanny Needs to Know
Free · Seven pages
Send me the guide
Seven pages, free. I will also send you the occasional email about attachment, sleep and the first years. You can leave whenever you like.
Meet Lauren
Who I am
I am Lauren Weber. I am a teacher and I have spent thirteen years working with families on infant sleep and attachment. I train sleep coaches worldwide through the Baby-Led Sleep and Well-Being Specialist Certification.
I wrote this because the things in it are rarely said to caregivers, and because the people who most need to hear them are usually the ones being asked to work it out alone.
For nannies
I am also building a training course for nannies in this approach. It is written, and I am recording it now. If you would like to know when it opens, email me at [email protected]. I read those myself.
Lauren Weber is a teacher and the founder of Isla Grace. She has spent thirteen years working with families on infant sleep and attachment, and trains coaches worldwide in the Baby-Led Sleep and Well-Being Specialist Certification.
