Boston families deserve a real local agency — one where every caregiver is screened to clinical standards and employed with W-2 accountability. Nurture Haven is that agency.
Boston is the historic heart of New England. It's a hub of healthcare, biotech, education, and professional families — and finding childcare here shouldn't feel like a part-time job.
What Boston has instead: dozens of caregivers listed on national platforms where families do all the vetting themselves. You scroll, you message, you schedule interviews, you check references — and then you hope you made the right call.
That's not an agency. That's a job board with a liability disclaimer.
For Boston families in Newton, Brookline, Wellesley, Weston, Cambridge, Lexington, and Concord — families with real schedules, real risks, and real children who deserve better than a stranger from a database — Nurture Haven offers something different.
You shouldn’t have to become a professional recruiter just to hire a nanny.
Nurture Haven handles the sourcing, screening, interviewing, and reference-checking so you can focus on what matters: meeting your ideal candidate and making the decision.
Our placement process is built on standards developed by our founder, RN. That means clinical-grade screening — not just a background check — and a matching process that accounts for your family’s specific needs, schedule, and dynamic.
Our nanny placement fee is 15% of the nanny's gross annual salary for full-time placements and 18% for part-time and specialized placements (twins, special needs, NICU experience, or certifications beyond standard CPR). No recurring fees. No membership costs. The placement fee is a one-time charge. Book your consultation ($500 consultation fee, credited toward your placement fee) to talk through your household needs and what placement costs for your situation.
We learn exactly what you need — your schedule, your children’s ages, your household’s dynamic, and your non-negotiables.
We go to our network and screen every candidate to our RN-designed standards before you see a single profile.
You receive curated candidate profiles — not a list of 100 people. Every profile includes detailed experience notes and reference summaries.
We facilitate introductions and trial periods to make sure the match is right before it’s final.
We support the transition and stand behind the placement — not just at signing.
Serving families in Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley, Weston, Lexington, Concord, Needham, Dedham, and the wider Greater Boston region.
Backup care, including through Bright Horizons, is available only when caregivers are available. Same-day and last-minute requests are accepted when a vetted caregiver is available, but are never guaranteed.
When we can cover a request, the caregiver is a W-2 employee. That’s not a technicality — it means:
No gig economy uncertainty. No 1099 contractor ambiguity.
Whether you delivered at Mass General, Brigham and Women's, Boston Children's, Newton-Wellesley, or Mount Auburn, the first weeks at home with a newborn are a different kind of exhaustion. Nurture Haven provides overnight infant care for Boston families in the immediate postpartum period. Our caregivers arrive in the evening, handle every feeding, diaper change, and settling through the night, and return your baby to you in the morning with a complete written care log. You sleep. That is the service.
Every Nurture Haven overnight caregiver is a W-2 employee of our agency, trained and supervised under the standard established by our founder, a Registered Nurse. Training focuses on infant safety: safe sleep AAP guidelines, feeding establishment support, infant observation, and knowing when to wake parents or contact emergency services.
Overnight rates start at $500/night (depending on location and caregiver tier). Your specific rate depends on which of our two tiers fits your family's needs — fully detailed in our Welcome Packet.
| Tier | Best fit for | Caregiver Credential |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 — NHNC Certified Night Doula, Sleep & Transitions Focus | Older infants four months and up, healthy term babies, families navigating return-to-work transitions. | NHNC™ Certified Night Doula — Sleep & Transitions Focus |
| Tier 2 — NHNC Certified Night Doula, Newborn Specialty | Newborns zero to sixteen weeks. First-time parents. Twins. The long, blurry early weeks. | NHNC™ Certified Night Doula — Newborn Specialty (plus NAPS Night Doula Certificate) |
Nurture Haven is a self-pay service. We provide itemized receipts for all engagements, which many of our families use to request reimbursement from their employer's family benefits programs.
For complete details on our overnight service scope, tiers, and FAQs, please visit our dedicated Overnight Care Hub Page.
This is not a clinical service. We do not provide medical care, clinical assessment, or postpartum health services. We are professional overnight infant care delivered by caregivers trained to recognize when to contact parents or emergency services, with direct access to our RN founder for caregiver support and questions.
Nurture Haven serves families across Boston and the surrounding Greater Boston region, including:
Not sure if we cover your town? Call (774) 292-4600.
Nurture Haven is a Massachusetts-founded agency. While our roots began in Western and Central MA, we actively serve families across Greater Boston and the MetroWest area with a dedicated local caregiver network. When you call (774) 292-4600, you are calling our Massachusetts-based team, not a national call center.
Our nanny placement fee is 15% of the nanny's gross annual salary for full-time placements and 18% for part-time and specialized placements (twins, special needs, NICU experience, or certifications beyond standard CPR). Contact us at (774) 292-4600 or info@nurturehavennannies.com for a consultation and transparent fee structure.
Backup care, including through Bright Horizons, is available only when caregivers are available. Same-day and last-minute requests are accepted when a vetted caregiver is available, but are never guaranteed. Call (774) 292-4600 to confirm current availability in Boston.
Yes. We offer placement services for families who want our full matching process, and backup care is available regardless of how you found your primary caregiver — only when caregivers are available.
Every caregiver in our network is personally interviewed, reference-verified, and background-screened under a process designed by our founder, RN — clinical-grade vetting, not box-checking. We complete full CORI checks, national background checks, and reference verification before any caregiver is placed with a family.
Yes. We understand the demands of shift-based healthcare schedules and actively serve healthcare workers at Boston’s major medical facilities. Early morning availability and flexible hours are part of what we offer; backup care is available only when caregivers are available.
Stop managing your own nanny search through a platform that doesn’t know your family. Nurture Haven brings RN-supervised placement and W-2 overnight newborn care to Boston and Greater Boston.
Every family begins with a discovery call. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you — and where possible, point you toward someone who is.
Serving Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley, Weston, Lexington, Concord, Needham, Dedham · info@nurturehavennannies.com