MemberMissCountryGirl727: We left our son with his parents when he was 12 months. It’s not that we didn’t want to do so earlier, we just couldn’t afford to go anywhere.
MemberI have two kids, now 5 and 6, and I never left them overnight anywhere until they could walk and talk.
MemberI had to travel for work when Dear Daughter was ~7 months old, so she was with Darling Husband for several days and that went fine. Then just a couple weeks ago, we did our first trip away where she went and stayed with my parents, at a year old almost exactly. She handled it just fine! I shouldn’t have worried.
MemberDaughter is over 9 months, and I can’t imagine leaving her alone over night with someone else any time soon. I know that sounds really needy, but I’m not ready yet. I think our honeymoon will be delayed for at least another year because I’m not ready to leave her alone for the whole night without us. I know I’m pathetic 🙁
MemberMy LO is just two and we are yet to spend a night apart. Part of that is circumstantial as we moved away from our family and support network when LO was only 15 months old (and still night nursing) so overnights haven’t been feasible.
MemberI had to be out of town for work for a night when mine was about 5 months old, and I was NOT happy about it. The next time we left him overnight was at about a year and a half and that was fine (he was mostly weaned by that point so it was easier).
MemberMissCountryGirl727: I left my son with my mom for ONE night- when he was about 3.5 weeks old, but it was sort of an “emergency”. And- I ended up driving over there in the middle of the night LOL
After that, I didn’t leave him until he was 2 or 3. There wasn’t a need for it. When I traveled, he came with.
MemberMy LO is almost 9 months and I can’t do it yet. I am the last face he sees at night and the first face in the morning and I LOVE our bedtime routine….I just can’t.
MemberMy LO will be 8 months on Sunday. We have not done any overnights, she EBF’s, won’t take a bottle, nurses to sleep and still nurses a couple of times a night. And we live 2,500 miles from our closest family so theres that too =)
MemberI felt bad leaving him at 3-4 months but it was our wedding night and my parents were a flight of stairs and a room away so if anything went wrong I wasn’t far away. We had plenty of frozen EBM stored just for that night. He slept through the night anyway!
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