I am going to be watching my best friends ( also ex sister in law) baby..?
What is a reasonable price for that many hours a week?
Answer:
trade! dont take the payment! make it a loan of childcare and help! youre about to have your own baby, just a couple months after her. luckily, the timing is perfect for you two. the first two months are the hardest to deal with, and shes gonna need all the help she can get. around the two month mark, things start to settle down with a new baby, and then youll be having your own little one. so have her come and help you out! youll both find that watching two new borns isnt that much harder than one, and even 15 minutes to take a shower is a huge thing when youre a new mom. so take turns going to each others houses, and even if you dont leave your baby alone with her, just enjoy the 15 or 20 minutes of relative freedom. take a small nap, shower, get dinner on, etc. this is exactly the sort of "community child rearing" that is practiced in other countries, and theyve actually found that the children in these countries are better socialized and cry less than babies in our country, where theyre almost always cared for pimarily by their mothers. :)
My mother in law charges me $50 a week.
i think 25 to 50 dollars a week is a resonable price for a friend. or you could simply suggest that as her baby is outgrowing her clothes, since your kids will be 2 months apart, that she just pass those clothes along to your baby.
perhaps -15 -20 dollars a day also depending upon how much work the infant needs. Don't forget you will also be looking after your little ones too.
Babies need a rest time diapers changed Bottles to be fed and later there will be regular lunches and feedings that will be need to be attended too.
Babies take a great deal of time.
More so when they are sick too.
Good Luck
I think $50 dollars a week would be good. My mom charges 2.50 an hour or somthing like that.
You should get paid because you will be totally overwhelmed. I did this for a friend with a newborn (mine), her child (who was 1) and my 3 year old. It is very difficult.
How about half of what the going rate is for local daycare? If a day care charges $200 a week, charge her $100.
Believe me- you should most definitely get paid!
If you didn't want to get paid anyways, I suggest taking the lowest amount she will offer. But the truth is, a baby is very expensive and you will be tired enough taking care of your own. Two babies is a lot of work. Maybe you should think about this a bit more before you work for cheap. But it's definitely up to you. I think that for four days a week, four hours a day, I would be asking about 50 a week. I'm not sure what the going rate is but that sounds good to me. And you are still saving her money, daycare is very expensive these days.
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