To think 3.5weeks is too soon to leave a baby?

[asouthwoldmummy]

I know it shouldn't bother me but my sister's DD is 3.5 weeks old. Her MIL is babysitting tonight as she and her DH have gone to a Halloween party.

I don't have a problem with using babysitters for the odd night out but surely her 3.5week old DD should be more important than her social life!

I'm not some obsessive mother that doesn't trust anyone else with DS by the way. My mum sometimes babysits so me and DH can go out for a nice meal occasionally, I just think it's too soon for my sis!

As Hercate asked, is it just your sister who shouldn't be going, or the baby's father as well?

Either way, YABU. The baby will be in safe hands, the mother is allowed a life of her own and it's nothing to do with you.

I wouldn't have done it myself but some people do. Perhaps your sis will find after an hour or so that she feels slightly strange, as though she's missing something - I know I felt like that the first time I had to leave DS for more than an hour.

Anyway - up to her, innit.[hsmile]