Maternity nurse is a qualified person who takes care of babies from their birth until the 16th or 18th week.
If required, the maternity nurse may start a few weeks before delivery and support the mother expecting her first child or who needs a professional person by her side.
Maternity nurse does not necessarily have to have a medical degree but has experience with newborns as a nurse, nanny, or midwife.
A mother who already has children would prefer a very experienced nanny to care for her baby until the age of six.
What are the medical functions of the maternity nurse that would ensure health and safety of the baby?
- Teaching the parents to change diapers for a newborn and what types of diapers to use
- Training the parents on how to sterilise bottles
- Ensuring that appropriate clothing and equipment are used for the baby
- Teaching about food diversification so that the baby discovers food at proper stages
- Teaching the parents about bathing and changing the baby
- Ensuring calm and secure environment for the baby
- Organising the baby’s rest and bedtime routines (naps and nighttime sleep)
- Teaching how to dress the baby after leaving hospital (depending on the weather)
- Proper response to allergies
- Advising the parents about the organisation of travelling, and purchasing of toys
- Teaching the parents how to stimulate the intellectual and emotional development of the baby
What are the pedagogical and educational functions of the maternity nurse?
- Teaching the child to speak and walk
- Teaching the baby to be tidy
- Ensuring psychomotor development and the evolution towards autonomy (for games, waking or creative activity)
- Gradually creating the baby’s social environment
- Advising and informing the parents of baby and child progress
To become a candidate of Mallet Morgan & Nannies, maternity nurses or nannies must have at least three years of experience working with children in private families.
Morgan & Mallet Nannies place and recruit maternity nurses for temporary, seasonal and permanent positions.
We will be happy to answer all your questions in the offices of our recruitment agency.
