“Today” meteorologist Dylan Dreyer is sharing her take on a challenging scenario many working parents face.

On last week’s episode of her podcast, “The Parent Chat,” Dreyer recalled returning to work just three months after her eldest son, Calvin, was born. Though her employers allowed her to remain close to home, she said Calvin came to prefer being with his nanny rather than with her.

“I loved my nanny. She was with us from when Calvin was 3 months old,” Dreyer explained. “But I remember when Calvin was a baby, so maybe, like, 4 or 5 months, and he would only want her.”

Given the flexibility of her schedule, Dreyer admitted she was caught off-guard by her son’s behavior.

“I was home a lot, you know,” she said. “I work a schedule where I can be home by 11:00 in the morning. I was there to cook dinner, but he preferred her.”

Dreyer’s admission came amid a conversation with celebrity nanny Connie Simpson, better known as “Nanny Connie,” who has cared for the children of Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, among other Hollywood stars.

Simpson urged Dreyer and other working parents to stop judging themselves when their children grow close to their nannies.

“It would be really devastating if it were the opposite, if every time you walked through that door, they just wanted to latch onto you,” she said.

“A village is a beautiful thing,” Simpson later said. “You are not built to do this all alone. Don’t judge yourself because your village is showing beauty somewhere else.”

Dreyer shares sons Calvin, now 9, Ollie, 6, and Rusty, 4, with TV producer and cameraman Brian Fichera. She and Fichera separated in July of last year after about 12 years of marriage, and in March, she formally filed for divorce.

In an Instagram post announcing the separation, Dreyer said she and Fichera “will continue to co-parent our three wonderful boys together with nothing but love and respect for one another.”

In a chat with fellow “Today” co-host Jenna Bush Hager in November, Dreyer confirmed that she and Fichera planned to spend Thanksgiving together despite their separation.

“I want [my sons’] dad in their life. They need that,” she said. “They need both the dynamic of a mother and a father, and we’re providing that to them in the best way possible.”

Elsewhere in her chat with Simpson, Dreyer said she was “hesitant” to publicly discuss the help she received as a mom, which included a nanny, because she feared being judged by other working parents who may not have similar support networks.

“I felt guilty that I couldn’t do it all myself, and I needed to require other people,” she said. “But, I mean, that relationship is so important because it helps you build your village and gives you the time to give to yourself, too.”

Watch Dylan Dreyer’s “Parent Chat” conversation with Connie Simpson below. Her comments on her eldest son’s relationship with his nanny begin around the 17:24 mark.

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