Zdenka's Reviews
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(4.31 from 13 reviews)
Zdenka took care of our 5 month old daughter for 2 weeks in September 2021. She is professional and punctual and has an unwavering wonderful commitment to the wellbeing, emotional and physical development of children. Zdenka was loving and patient with our daughter and made numerous helpful suggestions (sometimes even after working hours!) with respect to settling our child. She is reliable and sweet. I wholeheartedly recommend Zdenka's services.
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Zdenka’s dedication to her job and her passionate approach to looking after children is simply remarkable. We were lucky to have found her, and we will be forever thankful to her for what she did for our newborn girl and ourselves.
We found her through Childcare.co.uk – having been impressed with her qualifications and previous experiences, we asked her to come to help us out for a few weeks with our new born. Due to travel restrictions, our parents couldn’t come to help, so we booked Zdenka until our families could come. We were struggling so much before she arrived. As first time parents, we were so exhausted and disorganised for the first 4 weeks. Zdenka came in week 5, her arrival eventually became a great help to us – it was the best decision we’ve made! One the day she started, our flat experienced an unexpected severe flooding. Water and electricity were cut off for a few hours. Under such extreme circumstances, Zdenka stayed the whole time with our newborn baby and kept her comfortable and calm in the garden whilst we were dealing with the plumbers, landlord and management agents etc in the flat. She was so accommodating and she kept our baby happy despite the noise and chaos around. We could not have had been more grateful with her being so dedicated and patient to our little one with all the things going on around.
Throughout the next 3 weeks, Zdenka was able to achieve so many things with our baby girl and provided us as new parents with much information about parenting. She is not someone who just comes in to do a job for the hourly rate – she wants to provide the best care for the babies, and her passion shines through everything she does. Apart from the usual feeding, changing and putting baby to bed, Zdenka spent a great deal of time training our baby (and us) many essentials elements about a baby’s development: morning routine; reading bed time stories; plenty of play time and tummy time to train baby’s hand and eye coordination; daily walks in the nature to establish baby’s senses with the outside world…etc. So many things she did that not only helped our baby’s development but also opened our vision as parents of what we need to do to provide the best for our baby. By the end of the 3 weeks, our little girl became so much more manageable for us, and she was able to hold her neck so well – thanks to the regular tummy time Zdenka spent with her tirelessly. Also settling the baby at night became easier for us – because Zdenka showed us how to structure a day with the baby in order to strike the right balance of activities and rest, hence the baby would go to bed much faster at night… all these little things that we never thought we’d achieve so quickly. She made our lives easier and really helped us build confidence as parents for the days to come.
I would highly recommend Zdenka to any family who needs help looking after their little ones.
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Zdenka has been working with us since September 2020, taking care of our first daughter when she was 15 months old, on a full-time basis. Our conditions were not easy as our daughter had only been with us since she was born, and we are both working from home full-time in a small flat. Zdenka is a true professional and handled the transition very well. It wasn’t long before our daughter would wave goodbye to us when she sees Zdenka arrive in the morning.
Zdenka has a deep understanding of children’s learning and development needs which is at the heart of everything that she does. She has brought many books and materials into our home to aid our daughter’s learning and support the activities and themes she meticulously plans. Zdenka has spent her spare time providing advice to us in areas such as sleep and nutrition, and also preparing activities such as making a cardboard barn for messy play or little boats to teach our daughter about sinking and floating. She also scopes the local area for playgrounds, classes and activities to attend, which has not been easy during lockdown.
Zdenka is extremely hard working and very flexible as we have had a number of schedule changes during our time and is able to work additional hours at short notice. She is always punctual, focussed and very dependable. It is heartwarming to hear positive feedback about Zdenka from other nannies or parents which we meet in the playground. Our daughter is small for her age, but very able and confident. We have no doubt that this is due to Zdenka’s encouragement and professionalism in being able to recognise areas for our daughter to learn and teaching methods to help her achieve milestones.
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Zdenka has been helping my wife for up to a few days a week with our <6 month old twins in a mother’s helper role. Zdenka is always very conscious of maintaining a clean environment (especially during covid) and was very knowledgeable! She is friendly, patient and warm with both us and of course most importantly the babies. Thank you!!
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Zdenka has just started with us in a full-time nanny position. We met her for coffee twice and she has done two trial half days with us before starting full-time. So far, she has always been reliable, punctual, courteous, helpful and knowledgeable. We checked her references thoroughly and they all had wonderful things to say about her.
We are excited to have her onboard and playing a vital role in our 15 month old daughter's development.
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Zero credibility! Zdenka was supposed to start to work as nanny for my son and cancelled the last minute. I would not recommend her for anything.
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on 31/08/2020
Response by
Zdenka
on 01/09/2020:
Considering I've never worked for Ksenia, and only ever spent 30 minutes in an interview with her, I find this review very disingenuous and malicious...
Her review might have been a bad reaction to a communication misunderstanding on her side, because I canceled a second followup interview after getting a job with someone else.
Claiming I'm "Not suitable a for a nanny" doesn't make sense considering she wanted the second interview. Why would she want a second interview if she didn't think I was suitable?
Anyway, I'm sorry that she got so offended by not being able to get my services like my other happy parents.
So lovely to get an instant response and really helpful advice that we have implemented and are so grateful for.
We have been after some advice and after reaching out we had a response within hours and at no charge, very rare to get sleep advice without having to pay through the nose for it! Thanks very much!
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Zdenka Nigosova worked for us as a part-time nanny to our two daughters for 3 months between April and July 2020. The circumstances were difficult. Our girls were 28 months and 8 months old when she started, the youngest had spent very little time away from me and we were in the midst of lockdown, my husband and I both working from home. Zdenka was a consummate professional, getting to grips with a difficult role with confidence and enthusiasm.
Zdenka built relationships with both girls such that they were happy to spend the day with her, despite knowing that mum and dad were just upstairs. She developed a routine for both girls that involved pre-planned activities, often focused around a book, which she brought with her every day as well as trips out to a different local park each day for games and exercise. She cooked healthy meals, helped wean the baby and encouraged the toddler to try a wider variety of foods. She trained both girls to have more regularly timed naps than they had been having and the baby to self-soothe herself to sleep. She also helped the baby crawl and take her first steps and the toddler potty train.
Throughout the time that she worked with us, Zdenka was punctual, well-prepared, imaginative yet structured, loving yet disciplined and very much a self-starter, able to work well with limited direction. We could not have asked for a better nanny to help us through this difficult period.
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Zdenka has been taking care of our first child when he was only 5 months old and I had to return to work full time. I immediately trusted Zdenka as she gave us detailed feedback of our son routine and activities. She took on some extensive research to find appropriate classes for our baby in our area and gradually took him to one class or playgroup a day.
We moved house when our baby was only one year, Zdenka supported our son and adapted a special routine to get him excited in his new bedroom. When he was going through schema plays, she was quick at detecting them, explaining them to us and finally helping him (giving him time, talking to him and making him have fun).
She fully organized our baby weaning and introduced step by step new ingredients. Our toddler is now eating all sorts of vegetables, grains, proteins and fruits thanks to her perseverance and innovative ways to cook. I was actually very impressed with Zdenka knowledge in nutrition from the use of superfood to the magic alchemy of nutrients to ensure their digestion, absorption and help in mood and sleep regulations.
Zdenka has got a holistic way of educating children which makes her really stand out from the other nannies. She nurtured a positive parenting approach for us which we now follow almost effortlessly. She recommended us some educational readings which have helped us in many ways understand our child and coach him how to be independent and thrive in his activities.
Zdenka is so trustworthy she came with us on a family holiday to Zanzibar where she arranged some special activities for our 16 month toddler (coconut painting, collecting shells on the beach and painting them, swimming, sand play).
When our second child was born, Zdenka helped me in correcting my breastfeeding position but also supported me in staying active and getting some rest. She was preparing all meals for me which helped me feel good and the baby to have the best possible fuel for his development.
She patiently taught my newborn how to take from the bottle and even fed her with a spoon when she was refusing to take from the bottle. Last but not least, I was away for 2 weeks and Zdenka stayed as a maternity nurse when I was away, working 24 hours a day to take care of my 4 month old baby. She used her knowledge and practice to sleep train my 2 children and I am blessed to have them sleeping peacefully thanks to her.
I would recommend Zdenka to anyone and I have no issue in being reached should someone need more reference on her. She will be dearly missed and I wish her well in her future educational projects.
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Zdenka has been looking after our child for 11 months and she is doing a great job on a daily basis.
She is very reliable, always on time, and source of initiatives; submitting and coking new dishes every week or exploring all the activities that could help our son development. She is very active and can take initiative to better answer to our sons needs : once while we were changing house, she took our son to Kew garden to help him relaxing as he went under a lot of stress with the change of environment. She has also been travelling with us for a week and help us relaxing while taking care of our son.
Zdenka is highly skilled, had a very good approach with babies and toddler so I would recommend her to anyone.
This has been almost a year since Zdenka entered into our family and we hope to keep her as long as Alex would need her.
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