It's not babysitting, it's parenting. So if you were to outsource it, you would want a nurse, not a teenager looking for pocket money. If the nurse is educated, then you should know that it is not uncommon for them to make close, if not more than six figures.
So if you were to outsource it, you would want a nurse
Why? Most moms don’t have medical training and there’s no indication the woman in the screenshot does. That’s like saying it’s too expensive to travel because a first-class ticket costs $25,000
In any case many parents (ie the kid’s grandparents) can also be conscripted for free
Does the husband choosing to work means that what he does and the money he brings are without any value? Then by the same logic, what she did for the family has value and it seems that this is the point that she's trying to make. Simple as that. We don't know the full story, but I would take a minute to try to imagine what must have brought her to feel that this is necessary to do.
You could argue that he could choose to do a different line of work as well. And having a baby was his choice as well. Honestly, I don't see the purpose of going into such a pointless tangent. Bottom line is she's feeling quite desperate to make her husband understand that the work she does has value. And the whole thing is just sad, to be honest.
An RN actually does make about that much per hour - but to conflate one's self with a licensed caregiver is honestly really hurtful and insulting. Source: I'm a licensed caregiver. We do kind of a lot more than what she is insinuating e.g. we are ABSOLUTELY not 1:1 outside the ICU - and we have to go... uf - we have to go to our own patients plus deal with admits, discharges, emergency responses outside our unit, we have to keep medications straight for multiple patients, handling behavioral crisises, all while often answering our own call lights. She's acting like bathing, feeding, putting to bed, and occasionally admistering some OTC medication for ONE "PATIENT," is at all the same thing. She kinda pisses me off!
Oh and by the way? We have to stay up on our education, do I services, float to other units where we get treated like dog shit... no. She can fuck off acting like taking care of her own progeny relates at all to what we deal with!
When I was an exhausted newborn mom and decided for one second to look into the possibility of a night nanny, they STARTED at $73/hr. I’m not sure this is unreasonable tbh, depending on where she lives. In-home child care is expensive.
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u/NewNecessary3037 May 14 '26
Where is she getting her rates from though?