We staff nationally
Hire a Maternity Nurse
At Morgan & Mallet we place experienced maternity nurses across the United States. We can hire a maternity nurse for you who is highly experienced and ready to step in at short notice.
Finding a professional who can start immediately, relocate on short notice, and handle specialized newborn care is one of the hardest placements in household staffing.
With our network and expertise we tailor our maternity nurse agency services to what you need, and make hiring newborn care a positive experience.
10,000+
Placements
Since 2015
Over a decade of global household staffing experience across eight international offices.
Multilingual Recruiting
Team
Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Tagalog for sourcing candidates across global markets.
96%
Placement Success Rate
Industry-leading success rate in matching
families with maternity nurses.
Formal Childcare Qualifications Verified
NNEB, NCT training, neonatal certificates, and documented HNW/UHNW experience. Your nurse is highly experienced and ready to excel in their role straight away.
Why Families use Maternity Nurse Agency Services
The first 12 weeks with a newborn set up long term sleep patterns and feeding routines for the months ahead.
Maternity nurses bring experience caring for many babies, their families and their needs. As well as clinical expertise, neonatal training, experience with premature babies, twins, and other complex medical needs.
Our recruiter Ellie Littlechild, who places maternity nurses across the US and rest of the world explained the biggest challenge families face:
“Finding highly experienced people who are immediately available and willing to relocate at very short notice. It’s unusual to find a maternity nurse already based where you need them.
Another challenge is finding someone bilingual, often French and English. Given the families we work with, candidates need VVIP experience.”
Maternity nurse roles are temporary by nature, typically 4 to 12 weeks.
As our co-founder Morgan Richez noted: “The only position where candidates change frequently is maternity roles.” This creates constant demand but limited supply.
Cost: $3,500 - $5,500+ per week
Rates vary by experience level, whether the role needs the nanny to travel, special clinical skills, or care for more than one baby.
What Makes a Maternity
Nurse Different from a Nanny?
Maternity nurses specialize in the first three months of a baby’s life. They don’t stay long-term, they establish foundations and then hand over the care to the mother.
Formal qualifications
required
Ellie our recruiter explains: “Over the last few years, families have placed greater emphasis on verifiable references and formal qualifications.
NNEB, NCT training, neonatal or newborn-care certificates, and documented experience with HNW/UHNW families are increasingly requested.
Families want like-for-like experience.”
Complex care
capabilities
Ellie talks about a growing trend: “It’s more common now to find requests for maternity nurses experienced with special neonatal needs, premature babies, twins, medical complications.
These roles require additional training, qualifications, and experience.”
Short notice
availability
Unlike nannies, who give weeks of notice, families often need to hire a maternity nurse as soon as possible.
Babies arrive on unpredictable schedules. Our recruiters keep relationships with candidates just for urgent placements.
How We Verify
Maternity Nurse Credentials
Our recruiters carry out 90-minute interviews testing clinical knowledge, discretion during vulnerable family moments, and ability to support anxious first-time parents.
Reference checks
for maternity roles
We call references and ask: “Can you describe the baby’s sleep routine when the maternity nurse left?” This shows us if the candidate actually established good patterns.
Testing clinical
knowledge
We ask candidates to walk us through handling certain scenarios. A baby develops a fever at 2 AM. What temperature means you should call a doctor?
Our recruitment team needs to hear detailed, confident answers because they show real experience.
This is one of many aspects we look at and why our experience as a maternity nurse agency is so important.
Discretion during
vulnerable moments
New parents are tired, it can be a tough time.
Maternity nurses are there a lot and see private moments. So a really important skill is discretion
We test this by asking questions around different scenarios and seeing how the candidate answers.
How our Maternity Nurse Recruitment
Services Find Candidates other a
Agencies can't
Maternity nurses are hard roles to consistently find good candidates for. We are very good at finding the best. This is why.
Founders who worked
as household staff
Our founders worked as household staff. Morgan Richez was a butler and chauffeur for UHNW families in London.
Laurine Mallet worked as a nanny. They built Morgan & Mallet in 2015 from the staff side, understanding what makes placements succeed.
200,000+
registered candidates.
For every four applications we receive, one candidate makes it through to registered status. Our database spans eight offices: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Geneva, and Dubai.
Custom ATS built
for household roles
Normal recruitment platforms can’t filter for neonatal certifications, availability for immediate start, experience with twins, or willingness to travel internationally on short notice.
We built our own system to capture what matters for household staffing.
Quality control by
former Google recruiter
Eric Rios, who previously recruited software engineers at Google, audits every candidate profile monthly, checking that folders have everything needed – like references contacted, criminal records completed, certifications uploaded.
Maternity Nurse Recruitment
for Families who Travel a lot
Families often hire maternity nurses expecting to stay in one location, then realize they need to travel. Our candidates understand this.
Our co-founder Morgan Richez tells maternity nurse candidates during interviews: “You need a valid passport and flexibility for last-minute travel. Families don’t always know their plans will change, but when they do, you need to be ready.”
Ellie noted travel trends: “Families often split time between locations. Candidates with strong passports, US, UK, or EU are preferred.”
Bilingual candidates can get the best pay rates. French and English combinations are particularly sought-after for families dividing time between the US and Europe.
Maternity Nurse Salaries
24-hour live-in care: $3,500 – $5,500+ per week
Night nurse only (10 PM – 6 AM): $1,800 – $2,500 per week
Twins or complex care: $5,500 – $7,000+ per week
Typical contracts run 4-12 weeks. Families hiring for twins or premature babies often extend to 16 weeks.
Here’s a typical cost breakdown:
Standard 12-week placement
12 weeks at $4,500/week = $54,000
Recruitment fee (one-time): $9,000
Total: $63,000
Twins, 16-week placement
16 weeks at $6,000/week = $96,000
Recruitment fee (one-time): $12,000
Total: $108,000
What Happens
After Placement
We check in at 10 days, then every two weeks throughout the contract.
We offer a three-month guarantee. If a placement fails during that period, we provide a replacement at no additional fee.
Ready to Hire
a Maternity Nurse?
Contact Morgan & Mallet to start your search. Our recruiters will present candidates from our database of 200,000+ household professionals.