Expert Care for Precious Days
At Merle’s Baby Nursing Services, our mission is to provide compassionate, expert care that nurtures both newborns and parents during their first precious weeks together. With decades of experience in newborn care, we specialize in gently guiding babies into healthy sleep and feeding schedules, ensuring restful nights and confident days for the entire family. We believe every family deserves the peace of mind that comes from knowing their baby is cared for around the clock with skill, love, and dedication, allowing parents to rest, recover, and cherish these early moments. Our commitment is to create a calm, structured start for your baby while supporting your family’s unique rhythms, so you can embrace this new chapter with confidence and joy.
Merle Sinanan
With over 25 years of professional baby nursing experience and more than 40 years as a mother herself, Merle brings unmatched expertise, warmth, and calm to families during their newborn season. Based in New York City and traveling worldwide to support her clients, Merle specializes in establishing healthy sleep and feeding schedules, ensuring babies thrive while parents find the rest and reassurance they need. Her discreet, attentive care is often sought out by high-performing partners and families whose demanding careers require trusted, around-the-clock newborn support. Merle’s intuitive approach, rooted in decades of hands-on knowledge, allows her to seamlessly integrate into each home, providing structure, peace, and gentle guidance during one of life’s most tender transitions.
Services and Certificates
Licensed Patient Care Technican
Certified Nurse Assistant
Early Childhood Development and Nutrition
24 Hour Programs
Merle’s Signature Program offers families consistent, nurturing 24-hour newborn care during the critical early months of life. With her professional baby nursing expertise, Merle specializes in establishing gentle, structured sleep and feeding routines that help babies thrive while ensuring parents receive the rest and peace of mind they need.
Throughout the first three months of baby’s life, Merle lives in with your family, providing seamless day and night care while taking mindful breaks to recharge, ensuring your baby receives attentive, present, and loving support at all times. Her approach is tailored to each family’s unique rhythms, guiding newborns into healthy patterns and creating a calm, organized environment that allows parents to focus on bonding and recovery.
Families seeking a trusted expert to gently guide their baby toward sleeping through the night while receiving personalized, compassionate care will find Merle’s Three-Month Program to be an invaluable investment in their family’s well-being.
Overnights
For families not needing 24 Hour care, but still seeking restful nights and a confident start, Merle offers overnight newborn care with shifts of up to 12 hours. Throughout the night, Merle gently cares for your baby, handling feedings, diaper changes, and soothing, while monitoring your newborn’s needs with calm attentiveness.
Merle’s focus on establishing healthy sleep and feeding rhythms supports your baby’s development while allowing parents to rest and restore, ensuring you can greet each day with clarity and presence. Her overnight care is particularly valued by high-performing parents and busy families who need extra nighttime support, providing peace of mind that your baby is in experienced, loving hands.
Travel and Live-In
Merle doesn’t just work in New York City—she travels to wherever her clients need her, offering in-home, live-in newborn care under a three-month minimum contract to ensure a successful, structured start for your family. By moving in with her clients, Merle is able to provide consistent, personalized care that gently guides your baby into a healthy sleep and feeding schedule, laying the foundation for long-term wellness and family peace. This immersive approach allows Merle to fully support parents during the newborn season, bringing her decades of expertise and a calm, reassuring presence to homes worldwide, so you can rest and recover while your baby thrives.
Contracts beyond 3 months also available.
Merle also facilitates full-time nanny placement for her clients following the baby nursing period.
Overnight and Daytime Shifts/ Live-in Care:
○ Soothing and comforting infant
○ Feeding
○ Dressing
○ Changing Diapers
○ Cleaning and sterilizing bottle and pump parts that were used throughout the night
○ Prepare new bottles with breastmilk or formula
○ Breastfeeding assistance when appropriate
○ Proper breastmilk storage
○ Maintain a nightly log that tracks feeding times, number of ounces, diaper changes, etc
○ Restocking the nursery (diapers, wipes, and making sure the essentials are there).
○ Bathing
○ Informing and teaching the clients where applicable
○ Sleep conditioning and creating a workable schedule
○ Tummy time and developmental milestones
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