A Newborn Care Specialist (or NCS) is a career nanny that has specialized training to work with newborns and infants from 0-6 months. Newborn care specialists have a minimum of two years of infant (0-12 months) experience.  Most have many more years of experience, sometimes even decades of nanny experience before...

A NCS, or newborn care specialist, has very specialized training for everything that comes along with newborns and infants, from umbilical cord care to infant bathing and from knowing the best feeding and sleeping practices to setting up a nursery. NCS are also very knowledgeable in understanding a baby’s sleep...

This can be confusing to most new parents due to the fact that, outside of the United States, a “baby nurse or night nurse” are terms used for nannies, mostly overnight nannies that have basic infant or child care experience. In the United States, using the terms “ baby nurse...

What is an overnight nanny? An overnight nanny is exactly that.  Usually it’s a nanny with broad knowledge and experience of all ages of children that has decided to watch infants overnight. Most of the time, they do not have the amount of continuing education / training as a NCS...

Newborn Sleep Consultants have specific training pertaining to a newborn’s sleep needs and patterns. Newborn sleep consultants are knowledgeable in the cognitive and physical stages of infant development. A Newborn Sleep Consultant will work one on one with parents to teach and guide them into learning safe sleep practices, habits,...

Tampa Newborn Nanny / Newborn Care Specialist Answers A babysitter is usually someone that does not have a lot of experience with newborns and infants and can even be young teenagers.  Most babysitters do not have specialized infant, toddler or preschool training or schooling, and most babysitters work part time....

Yes, you can use an overnight nanny / newborn care specialist if you are breastfeeding! There are a few ways to do this and to make it beneficial to the parent and the baby. If the breast feeding parent pumps two to three times a day after a breastfeeding session...