“I never feel compelled to check for the simple fact that I trust my nanny. However, I was having a rough day yesterday and wanted to see what the little ones were up to so I decided to pop in. My nanny was sitting on my bed, rocking my son, and attempting to breastfeed him.”
The woman was disgusted by what she saw. “I almost felt sick, it just seemed so inappropriate,” she expressed. She confronted the nanny, who was highly apologetic, saying she “just wanted to help” her because of her lactation issues. But deep inside, the woman was still unmoved. She decided to dig through older footage and discovered more unsettling details.
After rummaging through recordings from the past few weeks, the woman noticed a strange trend in the nanny’s daily routine. She said, “She unplugs the camera in my bedroom when she goes to put him down for naps and plugs it back in when she leaves.”
The mom was unsettled and asked the nanny the following day for a reasonable explanation. Eventually, more appalling details came to light.
The babysitter told the woman that she was “uncomfortable” with the camera pointing at her while she attempted to put the baby to sleep, a reason the woman found baseless as the camera didn’t detect motion nor follow a target.
Still unmoved, the mom asked the nanny why she didn’t manually angle the camera towards the crib. The nanny replied that she didn’t know, which the woman felt was just another lie as she had previously noticed that someone had angled the camera towards the baby, and the idea of her 5-year-old doing it was impossible.
Checking more recordings to see if she was missing something else, she discovered that the nanny left her daughter in an enclosed pantry and her toddler unattended in the backyard. To her dismay, it didn’t end there.
People online suggested she check if there was theft too, with one Redditor, InvisibleShadow2U writing:
“Because no one has mentioned it: check your valuables, especially any that you keep in your bedroom. If she’s turning off the camera, she may well be digging through your stuff.”
Responding to this, the woman gave an update and said she checked her room for anything missing and discovered that a couple of her toddler’s outfits and her daughter’s small blanket had vanished.
Even the box of old baby clothes she’d set aside for charity had gone missing. The nanny’s father later returned the things, except for the blanket because she claimed she couldn’t find it.
“I’ve worked as a nanny. This is beyond inappropriate. You need boundaries in place, like, yesterday,” user gatitamonster commented, adding, “Part of making that my profession is recognizing and respecting the fact that I’m not the child’s parent.”
Several parents suggested what the woman needed to do next after her horrific experience with the nanny came to light.
The ordeal placed immense stress on the mother, who was horrified that she unknowingly encouraged a situation that put her children’s health and safety at risk. This compelled her to make a tough call.
“We’ve decided to let her go… I’m going to be taking a few weeks of leave to take my kids in for check-ups, get them a proper caregiver, and overall spend time with them,” she concluded.
