Newborn care · Brooklyn
We'll hold the baby. Go take a shower.
The first weeks with a newborn aren't about babysitting in the usual sense. They're about a calm second pair of hands so you can sleep ninety minutes straight, eat a real meal, or shower without the monitor.
Honest about what we are
We're babysitters. Not doulas, not night nurses, not lactation help.
There are people whose specific training is the newborn weeks — postpartum doulas, baby nurses, IBCLCs. If you need help with breastfeeding mechanics, infant sleep training, or overnight medical-grade newborn care, those are the right calls and we'll point you to them.
What we are: experienced sitters who've held a lot of newborns, can give a bottle, can change a diaper, can rock a baby through a fussy stretch, and can tell when something's actually wrong vs when it's the normal kind of crying. Two-to-five-hour blocks of daytime relief care for the parent who needs to nap or eat or shower.
How a newborn block usually goes
- ·Arrival. You're still home. We sit with the baby in your space — no walking out the door at first.
- ·First nap or shower. You go. We have the baby. You've already shown us where the bottle, the burp cloth, the swaddle live.
- ·During. We text only if something needs you. The whole point is you don't need to be on call for two hours.
- ·If there's an older sibling. Most common shape, actually. We take both — sibling gets attention, baby naps, you breathe.
- ·Handoff. Two-minute debrief. Diaper count, feed times, anything notable.
The older-sibling shape
The most common newborn-era booking we get isn't really about the newborn at all — it's the older sibling who suddenly has zero focused parent time. We come over, take the older one to the playground for two hours, baby gets to nap, you get to be one-on-one with whichever kid actually needs it.
Read more on the postpartum-weeks pattern.