Babysitters
Mar 23, 2017 14:58:52 GMT -5
Post by emilie on Mar 23, 2017 14:58:52 GMT -5
TTMA about your experience so far (or with your older kids) with babysitters. Have you left your LO with one yet (or when did you first leave your older kids with a sitter?) Was it family, or someone recommended by a friend?
H and I are lucky to live near siblings that we trust - we haven't left DD with them yet but I'm sure we will be okay with it soon. However, we are invited to a wedding in a different city in May (DD will be 5 mo old then). At first I thought it would be no big deal for H and I to attend the wedding together for a few hours, and just hire a sitter recommended by our friends in that city to stay in our hotel room with DD. But now I'm having doubts. We would be at the wedding and reception for 3-4 hours max, and the venue and the hotel are 10 min away from each other. What do you think - is it crazy to leave a 5 month old with someone who you don't know personally, but who your good friends trust as a sitter?
Our other options would be for me to come on the trip so I can say hi to our friends but stay behind in the hotel with the baby during the wedding (H is better friends with the couple), or for us to leave DD with family overnight several hours away, but I'm nursing and don't think I am comfortable with that yet. What would you do?
Also - overnights - when do you plan on (or did you) start taking a night here and there away from your baby? My sister has offered to care for DD for an overnight sometime. I'd like to take her up on it but I am nervous!
H and I are lucky to live near siblings that we trust - we haven't left DD with them yet but I'm sure we will be okay with it soon. However, we are invited to a wedding in a different city in May (DD will be 5 mo old then). At first I thought it would be no big deal for H and I to attend the wedding together for a few hours, and just hire a sitter recommended by our friends in that city to stay in our hotel room with DD. But now I'm having doubts. We would be at the wedding and reception for 3-4 hours max, and the venue and the hotel are 10 min away from each other. What do you think - is it crazy to leave a 5 month old with someone who you don't know personally, but who your good friends trust as a sitter?
Our other options would be for me to come on the trip so I can say hi to our friends but stay behind in the hotel with the baby during the wedding (H is better friends with the couple), or for us to leave DD with family overnight several hours away, but I'm nursing and don't think I am comfortable with that yet. What would you do?
Also - overnights - when do you plan on (or did you) start taking a night here and there away from your baby? My sister has offered to care for DD for an overnight sometime. I'd like to take her up on it but I am nervous!