EASY Introduction for Caregivers

[ccg01]

Other than asking them to read the book, is there a simple (?!) way to explain EASY and the Baby Whisperer principles to a babysitter? When I go back to work from maternity leave, we have a young woman who will watch our baby (he'll be 2 mos old then) in the mornings. She has been very responsible with our older son and had said she had experience with babies. However, the other day she mentioned how hard it can be to get them to sleep and how she'd had to hold her niece while she napped, etc. My heart sank! I don't want him to get off track during the days.

With any luck, he'll be on some semblance of a routine and sleeping independently then, but will certainly need her help keeping things on track.

[Tay]

I would probably try to get her to watch/ spend a couple of days with you beforehand to see the way you do things.

It'll probably also depend on her personality, if she's likely to take short cuts when you're not around or just stick with whatever you have asked her to do.
Good luck
xxx

[Chicane]

Spending some days with her is defo a good plan. Perhaps you could also sit down with her and take her through the forums...show her all the stickies and the info here that way she has a resource she can refer to during the day. Buy her the books so that she can take one home and also keep one at your place. And finally, just have a really frank conversation with her about how you are following BW, the key things that you want to try and avoid and how important it is to you that she cares for your LO in a manner consistent to that...it may take her some time to get her head around it all and perhaps encourage her to call you when/if she gets herself into a pickle. And I would also intro the concept of APOP in case she does get in a pickle but tries too hard to stick to the routine when LO actually needs to get to sleep by any means...kwim?