This chapter explores the role of extended family and domestic workers in childcare among urban middle-class Bahraini families. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women and men, it delves into the navigation between family, care, and work in single and dual-earner households. In doing so, it reveals the maternal grandmother as the most desirable figure of childcare support, making this matrilineal pattern of caregiving the dominant childcare arrangement. The preference for kinship care contrasts with the deep ambivalence surrounding female migrant domestic workers’ involvement in the care of children. Although domestic workers are commonly viewed as valuable in assisting parents, there is concern that the overuse of nannies may lead to parental disengagement from childrearing, a role that participants seem unwilling to transfer.