What do we do with the elder sibling during our baby's delivery?
As professor Farnsworth would say it, "Good news, everyone; we are expecting a baby."
My problem is to find a place to leave the elder sibling during delivery. We moved to a new place, where we have no family/relatives, and are too new to the area to request help from a neighbour/friend. I am sure others have faced such situations, is there something that could be done in situations like this?
Update: Now that my daughter is born, thought I should update my question with what I actually did.
There were two services that were very helpful.
1. The website care.com allows one to register (monthly cost of ~35$) and search (quite comprehensive) for babysitting help. The site claims that all people listed are done so only after a thorough background check. It even allows one to broadcast a message to registered babysitters asking for last-minute help.
2. The second service is nannypoppins.com, which is sort of a website+call service. If you call their number when you immediately need help, they will find one from their registered on-call babysitters and help you.
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Congratulations for the good news.
questions:
how old is the elder child?
are there no relatives which could visit you for those days?
For your problem:
What about a day nanny - someone who takes care of your child for the time you can not?
(Maybe also for a night in this case.)
I assume you have some time left before the other baby will come, so you might "try" even different nannys and see if you and your child mix well with her.
For sure it requires a lot of trust to leave your child with a stranger, but if there's not family or friends near....
Are there no grandparents which could visit you and stay with you and your child during the time you need their help?
There's usually some kind of midwives' association to guide new (and veteran) parents in all kinds of matters around childbirth. I don't imagine they've never had people in your situation before, unless you've moved to a fairly small place.
Ask your local hospital for references to such a group, and then ask both the hospital and the midwives' association what they'd recommend.
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