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Babysitter Anxiety

Hi everyone. I am a ftm with a 13m old. My husband has been working from home the past year and has recently returned to the office. As such, I have need of a babysitter a couple times a week to go to the gym. However, the anxiety and guilt and fear I have that she'll be intentionally or unintentionally hurt by a caregiver has become utterly too much to bear. We don't have any family nearby or available friends to watch her for a couple of hours here and there. I am finding women on care.com and reference checking and tried Facebook groups etc etc. Not only is no one really incredible but I just can't get over this debilitating anxiety that she'll be abused in some way. We have cameras, and I am only going away for a couple hours. We've been trying one gal and she's not great at following instructions to the T but she doesn't seem like a bad person and her references checked out and I had her sign and read a lot of documentation and copied her passport. But I just... can't get over these gripping fears.

How do you do it? Find a babysitter, and trust them?

*to note, we initially set out to get a nanny for $20-25/hour for 16 hours a week but feel so incredibly confused about how to build trust with a stranger to cover such big chunks of our daughters day, so we've reduced expectations/goals to absolute bare minimum

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u/poetclown — 2 days ago
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We'd sure love a second

I want to get my girl a dog friend very much and would prefer another Pyrenees because they are just the best. And after raising her for two years I am a wealth of Pyrenees xyz. However! I wonder if a second would complicate our easy peasy sleeping arrangement wherein she sleeps with us, and if two would escalate her barking significantly as we are already curbing it as much as possible for our neighbors' and baby. Our strategy is to block her view of cars/walkers going by as much as possible, and going to see what the hooplah is with a "show me / that's enough." And only letting her outside between 7am-10pm.

The neighbors called animal control once and the baby sleeps through most of it if she needs to. We do our best to support who our dog is and also not piss off our neighbors and also make sure our kid gets enough rest.

Our doggo Elsie is just so playful and loving with her dog friends, and would just absolutely thrive with a boy pyr to pounce around and cuddle with. TLDR: Do you guys think another Pyr would be equal in barks or would it multiply and extend her barking sessions? Would they chill out a little faster because the alarm has been sounded, or hype each other up?

Thanks in advance

u/poetclown — 3 months ago