A Newborn Care Specialist (a.k.a. “night nurse” or “baby nurse”) is a highly specialized and trained in-home nanny who focuses on the care and well-being of an infant, especially the first 12–16 weeks of life.

• Hired predominantly to care for newborns, either overnight shifts or around-the-clock care.
• Work independently with only minimal guidance from the parents.
• Familiar with the behaviors, appearance, and general care of the newborn.
• Often have experience working with preemies and multiples.
• Well-versed in helping establish proper feeding and sleeping habits.
• Well-versed in supporting family values.
• Well-versed in various sleep conditioning methods and can develop a successful plan to getting the baby to sleep throughout the night, and nap well as soon as reasonably possible, in a healthy manner.
• Have the goal of a healthy, educated, and empowered parent.
• Understand the value of and can support, a breastfeeding mother.
• Have a basic understanding of Postpartum Mood Disorders and can recognize and confidently address the possibility with parents.
• Understand and can recognize the signs of possible food allergies, intolerances, and reflux, and know how to help.
• Are willing to share information with healthcare professionals to support optimal baby health.
• Keep up on the latest information and studies in newborn care.
• Behave professionally and maintain family confidentiality.
• Understand the limits of their scope of practice and abide by them.
• Willing, at the appropriate time, to be both mentored and mentor others.

A Special Needs Nanny is a childcare specialist with the skills and experience to care for children with special needs such as, but not limited to, children with varying communication abilities, dietary concerns, mild-to-severe learning difficulties, physical disabilities, social-emotional needs, and behavioral differences.

• Provide extraordinary care while maintaining a safe environment.
• Are First Aid/CPR/AED certified, experienced with administering medication, and willing to receive specialized training.
• Attend to medical or behavioral challenges.
• Are unique individuals with big hearts, who provide an elevated level of patience, compassion, and empathy.
• Have a genuine passion for working with children with special needs.
• Happily work alongside speech and language specialists and physical and occupational therapists and teachers, and are naturally collaborative and team-oriented.
• Come from a variety of settings, and their backgrounds often include teaching, experience as a therapist or school aide, volunteer work, or personal experience with children with special needs.

A Sleep Trainer is a nanny who specializes in developing individual routines and systems for helping babies and children develop regular, healthy sleep habits.

A Temporary Nanny accepts short-term employment with assignments lasting anywhere from a few hours to several months and may provide emergency care, sick care, or backup care, or travel with families to assist with childcare.

A Multiples Specialist is a nanny who has extensive experience caring for multiples and works with families who have twins, triplets, or higher-order multiples.

A Governess is an educationally qualified nanny employed by a family for full- or part-time home education or tutoring of the family’s children, who functions as a private educator and does not usually perform domestic tasks or meet the physical needs of the family’s children.

A Nanny/Family Manager is a nanny who performs household- and personal-related duties in addition to their nanny position of caring for the children. Tasks may include household/family-related errands, shopping, meeting with service repair technicians/household vendors, cooking, overseeing additional household staff, etc.