Visitation
When do you all think it's appropriate to have your baby spend the night away from home, whether it's with the child's father or his parents, if at all???
Both my kids stayed with their grandparents on each side within about three months. I get the breast feeding concern and we always sent plenty of milk. It was rough on me don't get me wrong, the first few times your kids are away from home its a little sad. But my kids have the most amazing relationships with their grandparents and I love the fact they are all so close. Plus my SO and I both came from families of three or more kids so I don't know why we wouldn't think they could handle it =)
My sons father and I split prior to him being born. I started letting him have over night visits when my son was 4 months but only because he lived at home with his mom and our son was sleeping through the night. My daughter was older, probably 6 months when she slept out for the first time. As long as whoever is caring for them is capable of caring for them and waking up I don't see anything wrong with it.
We do it asap. I think its nice to see how it is to cut the strings early for mommy and baby. My daughter loves staying with people. It's not only for baby but for mama too. Take a night off and spend time with hubby or friends. You need it too. This time i might wait a couple weeks since i and going to BF and ill need tp pump a stash. My sister lobes loves loves to build a bond with my kids and the grandparents too. Baby doesnt remember but its a huge deal for family.
Plus I will be breastfeeding as long as I can. That rules out overnight stays in itself.
I'm just trying to get a clear idea on what the rest of the world thinks. I'm not trying to be selfish, but I just don't think it's reasonable for them to expect my son to be away from me over night this early.
Neash I completely agree with you!! Until my child can talk and tell me what's going on, it's not happening!
If we lived close to either set of grandparents this would've already happened. DS is 2½. I also breastfed until 14 months so couldn't actually leave DS with anyone overnight until after that.
I've left him with DH twice for 5 days, and once the two of them went to visit my SIL for 5 days. Really tough emotionally but I still felt fine about it all.
My first born stayed with my parents over night at like 3 weeks, but they only lived like 20 minutes from us at the time. After that he would stay there every other weekend till we moved away.
Let me add, my parents didn't mind waking up at night or staying awake half of the night with him. They also had everything for him that we had at home.
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