Pregnant FTM considering Nanny but both my husband and I WFH and have some generic questions!

Hello! Originally my husband was going to take a longer leave to be the main caregiver but his work recently gave him an interesting offer to come back sooner. We don't want me to take a longer leave because I make more than he does, so we're looking into a nanny for an infant--5 months.

(FWIW, it's notoriously difficult to find a daycare in our area and we may still consider this route, but honestly it's not likely we'll get a spot)

I've read some posts about WFH parents. Again, our baby isn't here yet but at least currently my husband and I have the general mentality of the following:

  • We have a large multi story house and individual offices. They are their own rooms with doors, not a mixed room space. While we are working, you could blast music on max or the baby could cry for an hour (as babies just do sometimes) and we wouldn't be upset. We are not concerned if we are on a work call and our co-workers can hear noise in the background.

  • When we're working, we're working. We don't have plans to come and visit with baby during the day and we trust that our nanny is the professional. If they need our help or need to step away, they'll come find us but otherwise we just want to leave you to do your job

  • On the other hand, we do want to be able to come into the kitchen (which is an open concept with the living room) to grab water and lunch.

  • We're not opposed a nanny doing outings. We live in Ontario and it can be cold when we a nanny would start (November), so I would imagine walks would be not fun.

With the above, I am most concerned about the lunch and drink parts. In our experience, we NEED to leave our caves offices at lunch for a decent chunk of time for a mental break. Is it possible to do this without totally disrupting the nanny's schedule? For example, if we always took lunch from 12-1, is it possible the nanny could either go to a specific area of the house, go for an outing, have scheduled naps, etc? And is there a good way to communicate coming into the common areas to quickly grab a drink or snack?

Also, in general, what could we do as both WFH parents to make the nanny feel most comfortable? I would imagine this is different for each person but there could be some things we offer.