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Maternity nurse and night nanny care

A maternity nurse, or night nanny, provides families with expert, specialist care for baby and mum during the first few weeks after birth in the comfort of their own home. Such invaluable support is there exactly when and where you need it, to help you adjust to your new family member and establish good feeding and sleeping routines.

Why use a maternity or night nurse?

Each family has their own reasons for employing a maternity or night nurse. Commonly, a maternity nurse provides support where either mum needs to recover from the birth or a caesarean section, with multiple births, where one or both parents need to return to work quickly, or for specialist support for breast-feeding, colic and sleeping problems. Some families, especially where both parents work, choose to employ a maternity or night nurse to ensure they are rested enough to return to work – sometimes until baby is sleeping through.
Our maternity and night nurses have extensive medical experience and training in post-natal care and their main role is to look after mum and her newborn. Your nurse can stay for as little as a week, or for a few months until you’re well settled and confident. Families that employ a maternity nurse or night nurse state that the main benefit was to be able to rest and recuperate knowing that a professional has everything looked after.

What is a night nanny?

A night nanny provides support from evening until morning and helps look after your baby and enables mum to rest. If you’re breast-feeding, your night nanny can bring baby to mum for a feed and then settle the baby back to sleep.

What is a maternity nurse?

A maternity nurse provides support on an almost 24 hour basis (usually 1 day off per week and some time during the day to rest) and is there to help establish routines and enable mum to rest and recuperate.

What support you can expect from your Maternity or Night Nurse?

Typically parents schedule in advance for the most in demand maternity nurses and they schedule times to fit their own requirements following the birth. Parents usually book a maternity nurse from 1-10 weeks with a maternity nurse providing live-in support 24 hours, five to six days a week.
They will assist the mother with nursing where needed and provide invaluable advice and support with sleep routines. They can also offer a wealth of information on new parents.
Maternity nurses often provide some child care support with older siblings if required to allow the parents to have some precious one-to-one time with the newborn.
Maternity nurses will also support you with bathing your baby, bottle sterilisation, maintaining the nursery and laundering the babies clothes.
Maternity night nurses can also be called upon to provide relief and advice for parents when baby is having disturbed sleep due to colic or other issues, allowing the parents to have some well deserved rest.

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How do I find a maternity nurse or night nanny?

Happy Nest works with some of the most experienced maternity and night nurses in the UK. We are proud to have the highest standards when it comes to vetting and recruiting our experienced newborn child carers. Most come recommended to us so we can recommend them to you. Maternity nurses and night nannies provide a huge support to so many parents with expert newborn care, for specialist requirements, but generally to help aid the most positive experience for the whole family.

Maternity nurses and night nannies can be arranged in advance and at short notice and can provide support on both a short-term and longer-term basis.

For a personal discussion, contact Happy Nest Nanny Agency on 0800 690 6109. We can inform you about our maternity nurses and night nurse service in more detail and offer helpful advice based on your family’s individual requirements. Alternatively, please use our contact form to send us your details and we’ll contact you as soon as we can.

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Salary Rates | Maternity or Night Nurse

Happy Nest only represent maternity nurses with a minimum of at least five years professional newborn and child care experience. They are all over 21 years of age and have a valid and recent criminal background check (DBS Check). Maternity Nurses charge a rate dependant on the hours required and relevant to their experience and qualifications. As an example…

Care option 1 for 24 hours over 5-6 days initially with the maternity nurse residing in the family home during this period. Maternity nurses usually charge £300 to £800 for a 24 hour/ 5-6 day service.

Care option 2 for specific days or nights whichever suits your schedule or routine best. Standard hourly rates are from £25 to £40+ per hour depending on the hours and the individuals charge rates.

For an informal discussion about our maternity or night nurse service, please contact Happy Nest Nanny Agency on 0800 690 6109.

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