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Poll Results: Would you?

 
  • 2% (12)
    Yes
  • 96% (393)
    No
  • 0% (4)
    We already did it
409 Total Votes  
post #41 of 126
11/18/05 at 3:33pm
If my dd would go I would. She still nurses all night long at 11 1/2 months and I think she may always nurse all night long so i question wether or not she could ever stay somewhere else, but i woudl if i could and she was happy about it.

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post #42 of 126
11/18/05 at 3:53pm
no way! i wouldn't even start to consider it for a second!
post #43 of 126
11/18/05 at 8:27pm
I work out of the home and there's STILL no flipping way I could go for more than 24 hours without seeing my son. We go on vacation WITH him! The first time we traveled overseas with him was at 9 months. I swear to you, there were at least three people we met in the check-in line at the airport who had left their babies behind. They were going to be gone for way longer than a week. I just don't get it. If you travel with them when they're young, they'll become good travelers!
post #44 of 126
11/18/05 at 8:40pm
DS#1 is 3 1/2 and I've never even left him overnight so never a week! I trust my mom completely but could not separate from my babes and at 1 they still need mom so much.
post #45 of 126
11/18/05 at 8:58pm
Although my parents are about the *only* people in the world I'd consider sending a one year old off with for a week. They'd never ask though.

Now, letting my parents have a week where they do *everything* with the baby and just bring him/her to me regularly for nursing? Sure thing*.

(*Because I know my parents would also bring the baby to me or dh if the baby just wanted to be with mommy/daddy.)
post #46 of 126
11/18/05 at 9:03pm
No way! I my parents and trust them with my ds, but I couldn't be away that long, and he would suffer with no nurse nurse!

Now, in a couple of years, heck yeah!
post #47 of 126
11/18/05 at 9:37pm
I didn't know which 'button' to pick. So I choice number 3 'Have already done that' even though we havn't actualy left either of our one year old's for a whole week. I do think that is too long.

DD was 22 months the first time she stayed with grand ma 3 days, and she had a ball. Then we left both dd nearly 4 and ds just turned 13 months for 3 days in October just gone. I was a bit nervous with her looking after ds as well, because he is rather 'into' stuff. So I rang up often and all seemed fine. I trust my mil to take good care of my kids. I know she plays with them and takes them on lots of walks to the park. She's a great mil!
post #48 of 126
11/18/05 at 10:10pm
I'm with the minority on this one. I vote yes, but maybe that is because I am thousands of miles away from my parents and we only see them once a year. They did a great job raising me so I feel confident they would take great care of DS. Of course I would go nuts, but I think that my parents love DS so much, and it makes me sad that they do not get to spend more time with him.

But, I would go with them if at all possible. The only way I would send him with them by himself is if there was no way DH or I could go too.
post #49 of 126
11/18/05 at 10:18pm
No way. He was just too little and needed me, plus *I* couldn't handle being away from him. But I'd seriously consider a weekend away at 3 y/o.... :
post #50 of 126
11/18/05 at 11:18pm
At that age, they wouldn't have *wanted* to unless I went too. Sometimes mama's milk is the only thing that can get a little one to sleep, you know?

She's two now though and I'm still not sure I could stand her being away more than a night or two (she spent one night away several months ago and we made it okay).

Christa
post #51 of 126
11/18/05 at 11:22pm
NO NO NO NO!!!!!

Why would that even seem like a good idea???

(of course, dd was still nursing, apart from anything else)

Sorry, but I just can't imagine wanting to do that - I would miss her waaaay too much
post #52 of 126
11/19/05 at 1:23am
Quote:
Originally Posted by joandsarah77
DD was 22 months the first time she stayed with grand ma 3 days, and she had a ball. Then we left both dd nearly 4 and ds just turned 13 months for 3 days in October just gone. I was a bit nervous with her looking after ds as well, because he is rather 'into' stuff. So I rang up often and all seemed fine. I trust my mil to take good care of my kids. I know she plays with them and takes them on lots of walks to the park. She's a great mil!
Just curious, was/is your 13 month old still nursing? I'm just wondering how a breastfeeding, AP mama would do the whole extended overnighter thing.
post #53 of 126
11/19/05 at 1:53am
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They are too young to understand what is going on and it just can't be healthy for their emotional development for their #1 caregiver and love to up and disapper all of the sudden for an entire week.
That's what i was thinking.

No way.
post #54 of 126
11/19/05 at 11:46am
Not at a year old, but I would send my 4 yr old. He would have a blast. My two year old is too much of a handful right now and my parents discipline differently, so no, I wouldn't send her. I would let her stay overnight with them, though. And my baby is nursing and will still be at a year, even with pumped milk I would never do it.
post #55 of 126
11/19/05 at 11:57am
At 2.5 dd is still nursing and I assume ds will still be nursing at a year so no. My sister, however, left her son with our mother for 10 days when he was 2 months old to go to HI. She weaned him and everything. Why she couldn't just take him with her is beyond me.
post #56 of 126
11/19/05 at 4:57pm
Not only would I say no, I would find it very hard to send my 12 year old for a week!
post #57 of 126
11/19/05 at 5:43pm
NO NO NO That said, my 9 year old ds went with my mom to CA for a week this summer to visit my aunt and loved it (they both did) I think that for him it was the perfect age for such a trip. That is not to say I think all kids should go even at 9 years old, it would definitely depend on the child, granma, trip, etc..
post #58 of 126
11/19/05 at 5:50pm
My ds is going to be one in a few days. He still nurses a lot and nurses to sleep at night. There is on way I could leave him. I am away from him for about 6 hours 5x a week and that seems like too much sometimes.
post #59 of 126
11/19/05 at 5:59pm
Heck, I wouldn't even leave my 1 y.o. with only dh overnight, much less a week!

I trust my parents totally, but I can't imagine either of my girls having a full night away from me with ANYONE at 1 year, much less a whole week.

Our culture has such screwed up ideas about separations between baby and mama.
post #60 of 126
11/19/05 at 7:09pm
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Just curious, was/is your 13 month old still nursing? I'm just wondering how a breastfeeding, AP mama would do the whole extended overnighter thing.
I wish. I never made enough milk. And yes that was with pumping, fenugreek (herbal) and Motilium (medication to boost milk) So he's bottle fed. I'm probably not as crunchy as some around here as my kids are not clingy, man there so social that they would go off with a one eyed green hairy thing. Thank God there are none around here . Plus they pretty much sleep anywere, and we don't co-sleep. Ok you can all shoot me now.
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