Primary caregiver

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A primary caregiver is the person who takes care of an infant or child most of the time. This is usually the mother but increasingly may be a father. Depending on culture there may be other members of the family engaged in child care. Theses include most often grandmothers and sometimes grandfathers, nannies, relatives, and sometimes infant day care.