When it comes to finding a newborn care specialist that is qualified to help you take care of your infant there should never be any compromises. A newborn ba is delicate, defenseless…and a lot of work. In order to make sure that you find a person that will have your back when you need it the most, do all that you can to screen them before they come into your life.
What Is a Newborn Care Specialist?
The main responsibility of a newborn care specialist is to help the parents get through the first few months of infancy and to a place where the ba can sleep through the night on their own. As beautiful as it is to bring a new life into this world, an infant has no respect for working hours, responsibilities, or comfort. They want what they want right now and will cry until they get it.
Although there are plenty of people in the world that seem like they never outgrew that phase, it is a very big accomplishment for the parents of newborns when they can sleep through the night and once again have some peace in their lives.
The newborn care specialist is the person that will be there for the ba at all hours of the night while the parents try their best to get some sleep.
In addition to the ba waking and crying through all hours of the night, it is best for newborns to have somebody looking out for them in their early stages of life. They are frail and complications such as SIDS and other dangers are always possible.
A newborn care specialist, also known as a “ba nurse” will be trained and experienced in the fundamentals of infant care and be certified in life-saving specialties such as CPR.
What Does a Newborn Care Specialist Do?
As we mentioned earlier, one of the main functions of a ba nurse is to keep a close eye on the ba and help the parents get to sleep at night. When it comes to taking care of a newborn ba there are many things a person should know.
Some of the certifications a ba nurse should have are:
- Infant sleep
- Infant nutrition
- Infant CPR
In addition to caring for the ba as it sleeps a newborn care specialist will:
- Feed the infant
- Change the infant’s diapers
- Comfort the infant
- Bathe the infant when necessary
Basically, the care specialist will perform all of the duties that a parent would do while keeping them safe and comfortable.
How to Hire a Newborn Care Specialist
Most times when a family seeks the help of a newborn care specialist they plan it out months before the ba is born. However, there are times when parents learn that it is too overwhelming for them to take care of a newborn with all of the other responsibilities that they have.
Whatever the case is that leads the family towards hiring a specialist to care for their newborn, it is important to find a specialist that is trustworthy and qualified.
There are many ways parents can go about hiring a newborn care specialist such as:
- Looking at online platforms
- Asking people that they know
- Local listings
- Internet searches
- Nanny agency
Regardless of where you look for your care specialist, it is important to make sure that you do everything that you can to get a nanny that is qualified and dependable. Taking care of an infant is a big deal, and being able to trust a person with your ba while you sleep is monumental.
Seek out the type of care that you need and gather as many resumes as you can so that you can carefully ponder prospects.
Once you find some great prospects you can contact them and ask them to meet you somewhere for an interview. Take notes and compare the pros and cons of each that you feel could be a good match.
Once you have a few that you think are worth investing in you will have to have them gather all of the pertinent information about themselves that you require such as a background check, references, certifications, and proof of experience.
After all of your potential helpers have gotten the information that you requested you can carefully choose whichever one you feel comfortable with.
If this seems like a lot of work…you are correct. It is a lot of work. In order to make sure you have a good care specialist you have to do the footwork to make sure that they are not going to put you or your infant in any danger before you allow them into your home.
Hiring Through a Reputable Nanny Agency
If you go through a boutique nanny agency to find your newborn care specialist you will learn that most of the hard work that goes into finding the perfect person to care for your newborn is already done the agency.
A high-quality nanny agency will always pre-screen and verify any person that they hire and allow to work through their agency.
Instead of the parent having to search around the internet for endless hours all they have to do is contact the nanny agency and tell them what they need. Any of the available professionals will already be screened and fully vetted before they are shown to the parents.
Before a nanny, of any type – including a newborn care specialist – can be allowed to work through a reputable agency they will have:
- A thorough background check
- A verified list of credible references
- Been screened for certifications
- A clean verified driving record
- The minimum education requirements (these will vary depending on the agency)
There are nanny agencies out there that offer risk-free services and allow you to hire a nanny on a temporary basis while you get to know them and decide whether or not you want to go through with the actual hire. What that means is that you can actually get a trial period where you can have an opportunity to back out of the contract if you feel the need.
The Childcare Professional Screening Process
Some of the higher-quality nanny agencies put their candidates through a rigorous screening process that is meant to weed out any low-grade nannies so that they only get the best of the best to offer their clients.
The screening process can be long and enduring. Nannies that aren’t serious about their careers may not be able to handle the screening.
A strong process could consist of:
- Initial telephone interview, followed up a face-to-face meeting
- Employment timeline verification
- Social media audits
- Personal reference checks
- Collection and verification of vetting items such as certifications and vaccinations
- Face-to-face interviews with the families
- Criminal and DMV background checks
Although it may seem like a lot, the truth is that you can’t be too careful when it comes to bringing somebody into your home to take care of your infant. Period.
Searching Online Platforms
There are a number of platforms on the internet that act as portals to all types of nanny profiles for nannies that are all over the United States. Some of these platforms can be good, but some of them are not so good. The one thing that they all have in common is that anybody can go on there and post a profile that says they are a nanny, or a newborn care specialist, with tons of experience.
There is nobody there to prove any of what they say.
Not to say that there are a bunch of terrible people out there that are nanny imposters that want to invade your life and steal from you, but to say that it only takes one terrible person to ruin an entire life.
If your potential nanny has nothing to hide, they will not mind if you go above and beyond to verify anything they tell you.
The way online platforms make their money is that they have nannies pay a certain amount of money for a certain level of exposure on their platform, then they have the people that are looking for a nanny pay a fee as well. Much like any other online community that requires a fee, all you have to do is pay the money and you can browse all you want of the profiles that the nannies paid for as well.
No guarantees. No vetting. No proof of certifications. All you get is a profile with information and a nice picture.
Of course, you can browse all of the profiles and pick the ones that look like good matches then interview them all…but, most of the time you will have to do your own background checks and verifications.
Conclusion
Having a newborn in the home can be both rewarding and stressful. When it comes time to get help with that ba the last thing a parent needs is to be inundated with excess stress. The best way to go about getting quality help with that newborn is to plan ahead and contact a reputable nanny agency that is equipped with the resources and time that it takes to make sure that your help will be as much of an asset as you need them to be.
