First weeks · Brooklyn
The other kid still needs someone's attention.
Most postpartum-sitter requests we get aren't about the newborn at all. They're about the four-year-old who suddenly has zero focused parent time, every day, for three weeks straight.
What we are. What we're not.
We are
- · Older-sibling care during the newborn weeks
- · Short daytime blocks so you can sleep
- · Bottle-fed-baby holding, diaper, light handling
- · Errand runners (dry cleaning, grocery)
- · Dinner prep from your fridge
We're not
- · Postpartum doulas
- · Lactation consultants
- · Night nurses or sleep trainers
- · Trained in newborn medical care
- · Live-in
For doula or night-nurse work, we'll point you to specialists who do that specifically. For the "someone please play with the toddler so I can rest" — that's us.
The most common shape
Three afternoons a week, three weeks straight.
Sitter shows up around 1, takes the older sibling to the playground, brings them home, runs through dinner-and-bath, hands back at 6:30. You've had four hours where the baby napped, you napped, and the toddler had focused attention from someone who isn't a half-conscious parent.
Three weeks of this is what most families need. Some keep it going as a permanent recurring slot — that conversion is normal.
When to book
Lock the slot before the baby arrives. The week of birth is not the week to also be onboarding a sitter — meet us for a 60-minute session a few weeks before your due date so the older kid knows the face when we walk in postpartum.
If the baby's already here and you're reading this at 2am — call us, we'll figure it out together.