What's your policy on hard crying?
If you're a WFH parent with a nanny caring for your baby at home during the work hours, what is your policy around hard crying? I'm distinguishing between fussy light protest-y crying, and escalated, clearly-in-pain-or-distress type of crying. My 8 mo daughter only does the latter rarely. When it does happen my heart stops for a moment, and it takes immense self-restraint to not go and rescue her right away.
We've had our nanny for about a month now, and in keeping with the recommended best practices, I'm trying to give them their own space and not intervene when things go wrong.
Today there was an instance of that distress crying for about five minutes -- sounded like the baby got hurt. She was able to calm her down, and they seemed fine afterwards. I did not barge in despite my instincts shouting to do so. I did message the nanny asking what it's about, and she seemed to have hurt her nails by scratching a surface. When I saw the baby later, she was smiling and seemed fine.
I do wonder though -- was I a bad parent by not stepping in when the baby is clearly in distress?