Infant Specialized Program

Do you love caring for babies?  Being an au pair for a baby can be such a rewarding experience. Together with your host family, you’ll be able to participate in many milestones during your host baby’s first year.  From watching a baby learn to smile, roll over, eat solid foods to crawling and even walking, you’ll have so many special memories of your time as an au pair!  

Au Pair Care developed our Infant Specialized training program especially for au pairs caring for babies. To qualify for this program, you’ll need to have considerable interest and experience caring for babies and have at least 200 documented hours of childcare experience with infants and children under two, in addition to our basic au pair requirements.

This special training program takes place at the Au Pair Academy upon your arrival to the United States. Together with other au pairs, you’ll participate in a fun and hands-on training program, designed just for au pairs caring for babies.  You’ll learn the “American Way” of caring for babies and new skills and techniques that you won’t learn anywhere else, such as baby sign language and baby massage.

During the training you will learn:

• General household safety & hygiene
• Effective communication with parents about infant care
• Infant care basics (feeding, bathing, changing, transportation)
• What to do in an emergency
• Creating and monitoring a baby's daily routine
• Infant stages of development
• Games and activities to stimulate infant mental development
• Baby massage & infant soothing techniques
• Infant sign language
• How to care for multiple children including twins and triplets
• American parenting techniques
• Coping techniques to handle stress as an infant caregiver

Every au pair that completes the unique Infant Specialized Care training course will receive a certificate of achievement. You’ll also arrive at your host family’s home confident and prepared to provide excellent care for your host family's small children!

Ready to learn more about becoming an au pair? Meet some of our host families and find out why you should choose Au Pair Care.