Newborn care and night nannies
The first months with a new baby are beautiful and relentless. A night nanny or newborn care specialist takes the night feeds and the settling, so the parents can sleep and recover.
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Kalvri for families, at a glance
- Matching
- Free. Every caregiver who fits your household, ranked, with the reason for each one.
- Conversations
- Your first ones are free. A Kalvri membership opens the rest: $79.99 a year with a 3-day free trial, or $9.99 a week.
- Your caregiver's pay
- Agreed with them and paid to them directly. Kalvri takes no fee and no cut.
- Checks
- Kalvri vets and verifies nobody. Ask for references and look up any licence yourself.
- Where
- An iPhone app, opening city by city in the US.
What newborn care usually covers
- Night feeds, or bringing the baby to be fed and settling them after.
- Changing, swaddling and safe sleep, every time.
- A written log of feeds, sleep and diapers for the morning.
- Washing bottles and baby laundry during quiet hours.
- Help with twins, or after a difficult birth or a C-section.
Decide these before you look
- How many nights a week, and for how many weeks.
- Whether the baby is breastfed, bottle-fed or both.
- Whether you want help building a sleep routine, or simply cover for the nights.
- Your budget for the whole run of nights, not just one.
Questions to ask
- How many newborns have you cared for, and for how long each?
- How do you settle a baby who won't sleep?
- What safe sleep practice do you follow?
- Do you have infant CPR and first aid training?
- Can I speak with two families you worked nights for?
How Kalvri helps you find them
Kalvri is an iPhone app, not an agency. You say what the care really looks like, and Kalvri ranks every caregiver whose hours, skills, languages, distance and rate fit, with the reason each one was chosen. Each morning it suggests the one who fits best.
- What you require comes first. Everyone who can cover your hours, your budget and the care you described is ranked ahead of anyone who can't, and somebody who has said no to something you need is never suggested.
- Each caregiver arrives with the reason they were chosen, in plain words. What they told Kalvri is labelled as theirs, because Kalvri verifies nothing.
- When you both say yes, a private conversation opens. Ask for references, ask for a time, and decide for yourself.
- You agree the rate with your caregiver and pay them directly. Kalvri takes no fee and no cut.
Suggested by compatibility — not vetted by Kalvri.
Kalvri never handles the money. You arrange that directly.