Cele|bitchy | Britney Spears fires her nanny

Britney Spears decided to get rid of her nanny as a result of Sean Preston’s supposed fall from a high chair:

The singer made the decision to get rid of little Sean Preston’s keeper in the wake of the child falling from his highchair, according to In Touch Weekly.

Britney has been “hiding out and depressed” since her son’s head-bonking incident and cancelled plans to celebrate her brother Bryan’s birthday, the mag reports. “She wanted to be a mother and thought she could snap her fingers and be the perfect mom,” a “pal” told the mag. “But Britney is learning the hard way that being a good mother is something you always have to work at.”

Britney also asked for a doctor’s advice, who told her not to put Sean Preston up “on any high surfaces where he could roll off.” Yeah, that’s not common sense or anything. Britney wanted to hire the doctor full time, but he declined. He must have realized that trading in a medical practice to become a nanny to celebrity isn’t a wise career move.

MSNBC’s The Scoop goes on to attribute Britney’s non-attendance at Kevin’s show last week to her fear of leaving the baby alone with the neglectful nanny. We heard a few different versions, which we reported earlier. One had Kevin asking Britney to stay away so that he could get all the attention and another had Britney jealous that Kevin had asked Paris Hilton to come to the show. Either of those sound more likely.

Maybe Britney will snap out of it soon and take charge of her life. If she’s really pregnant, she’ll need to get her act together so that she can care for two babies. She’ll need to be more responsible even if she does get better staff.

Here’s Britney and her nanny in some pictures from late February.

Update: here’s a link to an Us Weekly scanned article about Sean Preston’s accident.