How do you fire a nanny?

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I'm a really very understanding employer. My employees in my small bakeshop have a very good relationship with me as I treat them fairly and I try as much as possible to befriend them because I prefer working with people I like (of course). My nanny at home however, is older than me by 28 years I think and I make sure that even though I'm her employer, I should maintain a certain level of respect being that she's older than my husband and I. So I don't command her as if I'm a strict boss. I normally ask her politely. It's just recently that after 6 months of service, she now tends to do everything her way even if I don't approve of it. Like checking and changing my daughter's diaper every 2 to 3 hours even if it isn't full, I want my daughter to be comfortable and allow her to have rashes, she doesn't do it at all. She wants to feed my baby using a metal spoon and of course, I disapprove as she has a lot of soft bite ones and I don't want to get her injured or something. There are a lot of things she does that I don't approve of and she seems to be shoving my comments off. Enough is enough and I don;t want to risk my child safety or health. She also raised her voice at me the other day because I told her that I'm not really happy she over extends her rest days to 3 or 5 days instead of 1 or 2. I'm in the process of looking for another nanny and by the time I get one, I'd be telling her to leave. My dilemma is that I don't know how to tell her as I've never really fired a person before and never had any reason to until now.