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Having a baby is such a wonderful journey, but it does come with its challenges, as you may imagine. The great thing is that you don’t have to face those challenges alone. If you and your partner are in need of some help throughout the night in order to help you catch up on sleep or to learn more about the best practices for helping your child go to sleep and remain asleep, then hiring a night nurse is just the thing for you. In today’s article, we’re going to cover the various ways in which hiring an overnight newborn care specialist can help you and your baby sleep better. If you have any questions or experiences with a specialist like this, then please let us know in the comments or on social.
What Is a Night Nurse?
A night nurse is typically a newborn care expert that can come to your home and help care for your baby (typically a newborn or around that age) throughout the night so that you can catch up on sleep. They can perform all of the typical duties associated with caring for an infant through the night backed up by expertise in the area through years of education and experience.
What Services Do They Provide Overnight?
A night nurse can help with everything from bottle feedings, diaper changes, burping, and even putting your baby back to sleep after it has been up for a feeding or a diaper change. If you’re breastfeeding, they can care for the baby while you sleep and then gently wake you up when it’s time to feed and then allow you to go right back to sleep when baby is finished.
Here’s a more comprehensive list of basic services they provide, as a general outline. Each individual nurse may approach things differently.
- Feeding support (breast/bottle, paced feeding)
- Diapering, burping, and soothing baby back to sleep
- Monitoring baby’s comfort and safety
- Logging feedings, sleep stretches, and routines for parent review
- Light baby-related tasks (e.g., bottle washing, restocking diapers)
Who Should Consider Hiring a Night Nurse?
Really, a night nurse is a perfect accompaniment to any parent, especially in those crucial (and stressful) first weeks and months, however, there are definitely those who could use one the most. If you or a loved one you know is in one of the following situations, then you may consider hiring an overnight newborn care specialist:
- First-time parents needing guidance
- Parents recovering from C-section or complications
- Families with multiples (twins/triplets)
- Working parents preparing for return to work
- Parents who have experience with newborns, but this particular child is experiencing sleep or other medical complications that disrupt sleep and feeding schedules
- Anyone who feels like they need more help, especially overnight
- Individuals that have a known sensitivity to sleep loss
Before You Go
We hope you enjoyed learning about tips for understanding the various roles of a night nurse. If you would like to know more about this, our sleep learning, consulting or training programs or any of our excellent newborn care services or overnight newborn support, we are happy to help. Just contact us and we can go over your options and help you find the best path for your little one.
We hope these tips have helped you along your journey. If you have any questions about helping your baby to sleep better, or about your baby in general, please reach out to us HERE. We are experts in all things baby and sleep and would love to help!
Katie B.
Expertise You Need:
- Certified Master Pediatric Sleep Consultant
- Certified Advanced Newborn Care Specialist (2016-2022)
- Board Certified Holistic Healthcare Practitioner
- 16 years professional childcare experience
- Certified Postpartum Doula (2015-2022)
- Travel & ROTA Nanny
Katie has over 16 years experience working with children of all ages. As a Pediatric Sleep Consultant and Newborn Care Specialist, she has professionally supported families and babies worldwide over the last 10 years. Her mission is to help the entire family unit get better sleep, utilizing a holistic approach that supports the baby or child’s natural biologic drive to sleep. She has personally served hundreds of families, holds 20,000+ hours exclusively caring for infants & babies and has 69+ 5-⭐️ Google reviews.
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