hey i love the baby she is so cute and the nanny thing is a real good idea!

Ya know what? Who cares what other parents do?! If you are able to afford the help, then more power to you… it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are bad parents. There are several different parenting styles and apparently they have chosen their own… let it be and worry about yourselves!!!

I guess I can’t relate to a few stories that are up here time to time. Maybe I was just lucky, but I don’t understand the big deal people make out of babies. Electronic monitor things for breasteeding and diapers, prefessional assistants,endless battery operated vibraty containers to put the kid in, blah blah. It just didn’t seem that hard. Baby wakes up, roll over and nurse baby. Baby’s wet, change diaper. Baby’s are so natural, and for thousands of years women have popped them out, and carried them around in the fields while they worked, but now everything is such a big hardship. Humans have gotten all wimpy. We need to go back to the cave and get it together.

She does not know tired until she has triplets! I was so exhausted and did not have a nanny nor would I want to. Its really hard but to know I did it made me feel good. I guess its her choice but she is really missing some good times and great memories of the midnight exhausted feeds!

I wish I had a night nanny when I had my kids. I think the venom people are spewing is because they are jealous….they wish they could have afforded to have the same thing.

50 years ago women stayed in the hospital for a week and were taught how to take care of a baby…if they had a c-section it was more like 2 weeks. Now, they kick you to the curb the day after you give birth…3 days after a c-section.

Ingrid had a c-section and was home 3 days later. For those of you that have had a c-section you know that 3 days is not long enough, heck even for a normal delivery 3 days isn’t long enough.

Who cares if they have a nanny…it is there choice. As for the grandparents, they can’t stay forever, most only stay for two weeks. I would much rather they have the “support system” of the night nurse then a mom that doesn’t ask for help at all and ends up resenting her kids and doing something stupid(Not saying that would have happened)

Perhaps the nurse is just there to give advice and does not actually take over… I sure could have used the help and advice of a nurse with mine! I don’t think I actually figured out what I was doing until about 4 months

If the nurse does take main care of the baby that is just sad for the parents – they don’t know what they are missing out on.

@ Emma

I totally agree as far as celebs seeming to seek praise or recognition for what most people handle day to day. I also had no help from relatives or a nurse/nanny after our baby was born and my husband just slept on through so I had eight months of waking up at least once a night. But it seems unusual now for celebs NOT to have a nanny of some sort. They’d get a shock in the ‘real world’.

Wow I never thought I would see the day when I was defending Jeff Gordon but here I go!

If you read carefully he says that once the baby nurse was gone they did all the things they normally did, they just didn’t have that security blanket (of the baby nurse) to fall back on. So that means that even with the baby nurse there with them they still fed her, changed her, put her to bed, everything and she was just there to help them. It is no different then if they had a family member or close friend to help them, but they can afford to pay somebody so why not.

As for the sleep-deprived comments all Jeff said is that he is getting more sleep when he is at the racetrack then he is when he is at home, that seems like common sense to me. When he is at home he is taking care of his daughter so he is not getting as much sleep as he was before she was born. But on the weekends he goes to the racetrack (for his job) while his wife and daughter stay home, and no baby means no getting up in the middle of the night so he is getting more sleep. I fail to see where he his complaining about having to get up in the middle of the night or of being sleep-deprived.

Oh Boy. It’s hard to believe how delighted people are to criticize without bothering to read! Jeff said the nurse was a “security blanket”. First time parents with any sense are terrified to be alone with such a small being that looks so fragile. I was, my children were when they became parents, and from working in the nursery of hospitals, I know most parents are. Also the ‘sleeping at the racetrack’ remark was a joke he made during a post-race interview. Lighten up people, and try not to get so much joy in cutting down a celebrity. Just because they can afford ‘security’ to ease them thru the learning process.

I am a little disappointed at the way the People article is made to sound. The quote about the nurse leaving in the people article is dated the 18th, but if you go to his website, that quote was taken from the transcript for a Nascar teleconference on the 11th.

If you read the quote he also says that they were doing all of the things they normally do, just without the nurse as a safety net. To me they sound like nervous first time parents who want to do everything right for their daughter so they hired a professional to help teach them, not do it for them. If they have the money, then why not.

I was also not impressed with how they titled the article “I Sleep at the Racetrack” like he is avoiding responsibility. That quote came from the very end of the comment, and all he was saying was that when he sleeps at the track each week (like all drivers do, unless close to home) that he is getting the better sleep. The Nascar weekend starts on Thursday with practices, then qualifying on Friday, the Busch race on Saturday, and the race on Sunday with loads of press events throughout, and is located at a different track all over the US each weekend. If they can’t chopper home on the brakes they sleep at the track in their motor homes. When Ella is older, her and Ingrid will probably be there too.

I think People did a really poor article and wanted to make it as malicious as possible…
If you read further down the actual article (from the transcript) he also states that the nurse is temporary and they are tapering off the visits. Maybe next time they could take some of his other quotes like when he said he wanted to get the race over as quick as possible to get home to his wife and daughter!!!

They’ve had their baby for 4 weeks and hadn’t yet spent a single night alone with her?? That is possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life! If you’re not mature enough to a. overcome your selfishness and make the necessary changes to your life in order to be able to take care of your baby even one night a week or b. face up to your fears and care for your baby as a responsible adult, not pay someone else to do it because you don’t think you’re capable/are scared, then you shouldn’t have children!! Who are they going to pay to handle things when their kid is a teenager and needs a loving parent to talk to and spend time with? A therapist?