Zdenka’s dedication to her job and her passionate approach to looking after children is simply remarkable. We were lucky to have found her, and we will be forever thankful to her for what she did for our newborn girl and ourselves.

We found her through Childcare.co.uk – having been impressed with her qualifications and previous experiences, we asked her to come to help us out for a few weeks with our new born. Due to travel restrictions, our parents couldn’t come to help, so we booked Zdenka until our families could come. We were struggling so much before she arrived. As first time parents, we were so exhausted and disorganised for the first 4 weeks. Zdenka came in week 5, her arrival eventually became a great help to us – it was the best decision we’ve made! One the day she started, our flat experienced an unexpected severe flooding. Water and electricity were cut off for a few hours. Under such extreme circumstances, Zdenka stayed the whole time with our newborn baby and kept her comfortable and calm in the garden whilst we were dealing with the plumbers, landlord and management agents etc in the flat. She was so accommodating and she kept our baby happy despite the noise and chaos around. We could not have had been more grateful with her being so dedicated and patient to our little one with all the things going on around.

Throughout the next 3 weeks, Zdenka was able to achieve so many things with our baby girl and provided us as new parents with much information about parenting. She is not someone who just comes in to do a job for the hourly rate – she wants to provide the best care for the babies, and her passion shines through everything she does. Apart from the usual feeding, changing and putting baby to bed, Zdenka spent a great deal of time training our baby (and us) many essentials elements about a baby’s development: morning routine; reading bed time stories; plenty of play time and tummy time to train baby’s hand and eye coordination; daily walks in the nature to establish baby’s senses with the outside world…etc. So many things she did that not only helped our baby’s development but also opened our vision as parents of what we need to do to provide the best for our baby. By the end of the 3 weeks, our little girl became so much more manageable for us, and she was able to hold her neck so well – thanks to the regular tummy time Zdenka spent with her tirelessly. Also settling the baby at night became easier for us – because Zdenka showed us how to structure a day with the baby in order to strike the right balance of activities and rest, hence the baby would go to bed much faster at night… all these little things that we never thought we’d achieve so quickly. She made our lives easier and really helped us build confidence as parents for the days to come.

I would highly recommend Zdenka to any family who needs help looking after their little ones.

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