Newborns through 12 months

Infant Babysitters in Brooklyn

Leaving a newborn for the first time is a whole thing, and Brooklyn Sitters takes it as seriously as you do. Becky and Shelly have been doing infant babysitting for Brooklyn families for years — bottle feeds, nap transitions, the unreasonable number of outfit changes an infant requires in a single three-hour session, the first-time-out texts from the couch that just need a calm reassuring reply with a photo. We don't run an agency with rotating strangers. We don't bluff our way through a feeding schedule we haven't read. We come to the booking prepared: we've read your notes, we know the bottle sizes and the nap cues, we've clarified what 'safe sleep' means in your specific crib, and we've confirmed whether the baby's been doing pacifier or not. For very young infants — under 3 months — we recommend a no-charge in-home meet-and-greet before the first booking so your baby sees our face while you're still there and relaxed. It makes the first session smoother for everyone. During the session, we follow your routine exactly. Improvising is for older kids. If the feeding schedule says a bottle at 7:15, the bottle happens at 7:15. If the soothe pattern is a specific hold with a specific song, we use it. If the baby cries past the comfortable threshold, we text you — we don't panic. If the nap doesn't go down when you expected, we tell you honestly and adjust. We don't do overnight infant care — our hours run 8 AM to 3 AM and we don't do sleep-training — but for every hour inside that window, you get the same steady, experienced care from the same sitter every booking. Babies do better with familiar faces. Book the same sitter repeatedly and your infant gets a real second adult in their life, not a rotating stranger each time.