How I Help Mummies and Daddies.
Teaching Babycare Skills –
• Picking up baby and passing baby to another person
• Dressing and undressing – appropriate clothing for the temperature
• Nappy changing and nappy area care
• Different ways to hold baby
• Bathing
• Wrapping
• Settling techniques
• Skin, nail and cord care
• Managing the baby when they are crying or fussy
• Managing babies with reflux or colic or food intolerances
• How to care for baby and toddler together
Caring For Baby –
• Attending to all babycare so mummy can do other things
• Taking baby for a walk
• Caring for baby while mummy / parents go out of the home
• Caring for baby while Mummy rests or sleeps
• Experienced with premature, sick, and disabled babies
• Experienced with multiples
Caring For Mummies –
• Caring for sick mummies or mummies who have had surgery – meals and drinks, driving to health appointments
• Caring for baby of mummies who are unwell or who have had surgery
• Taking and collecting other children from daycare, kindy, school
Household Tasks –
• Laundry – washing, drying and folding
• Shopping
• Errands – post office, dry cleaners, chemist etc
• Loading and unloading the dishwasher
• Washing, drying and putting away dishes
• Preparing evening meal or lunch and other cooking
• Tidying and wiping the kitchen
• Tidying lounge and other rooms
• Putting away baby’s gifts
• Arranging flowers and discarding old flowers
Accompanying Mummy on Outings and Appointments –
• Teaching how to manage taking baby with you – putting into and out of car, managing grocery shopping etc
• Accompanying mummy and caring for baby while on outings – clothes shopping, hairdresser, appointments
• Driving Mummy to outings and appointments
Caring For Baby While Parents Are Out –
• Lunch, coffee, appointments, shopping, exercise, mummy ‘me time’, funerals
• Taking baby to his / her appointments if parents are unable to
• Evening babysitting is available by negotiation – weddings, parties, dinners