Mariah Carey won`t hire a nanny

The 40-year-old singer - who announced she is expecting her first child with husband Nick Cannon last month - doesn`t plan to have any help when her new arrival comes.

She said: "I`m going to be hands on, `I wouldn`t be like, `Oh, I`m a having a child, yay! Let me get a nanny so I can give her the baby. Take the kid.` That doesn`t work for me. I don`t believe in that."

Mariah has also hinted she is planning to put her career on hold so she can completely focus on her child.

She added to Britain`s OK! magazine: "You can get caught up in Hollywood-land and that`s maybe not the best thing for kids, because they didn`t ask for it. I don`t know that I always felt safe as a child and that`s nobody`s fault. I feel like it?s important to be responsible and to think, well maybe if I do this it`s not the best thing for my child. You have to take a backseat a little bit, and as someone in the public eye you`re not used to doing that."

Mariah is confident she and Nick, 30, will make great parents, although she isn?t sure if she wants a big family.

She said: "I think we will make good parents and that we will be able to figure out how to do it properly. We`ll be happy with one. We`re so busy - if you have six kids running around no one gets what they need. What I want is to have children in a good way, with the right husband, with the right family life."

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