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Byline: Kristina Stewart Ward
I feel like a bad Mormon. Last month I hired a nanny, and I feel as though I've failed a little. My son is a toddler. I'm eight months pregnant and working from home as a journalist. To my Upper East Side friends-most of whom average one nanny per child (no, really: one child, one nanny; two children, two nannies, and so on)-this sounds like reason enough to hire outside assistance. But then I compare myself with Mormon friends who are raising perfectly mannered, well-groomed families of six kids without live-in help. I come from an invisible minority of women whose ability to tend to large broods has become the stuff of legend-now ...