I am pregnant with my first child. Friends of ours are getting married when the baby is about 3 months and we hope to go. No kids are invited (which I respect ) and if we go we will need childcare. The wedding is on our home and we will need to travel to it. We have plenty of options but mil has stepped in with an early offer.
Now, I love my mil she is wonderful BUT she has profound hearing loss. She wears hearing aids ( most of the time) but this only helps to a certain extent. She can’t communicate over the phone at all, hear it ring, not cab she hear the door bell or most worryingly the smoke alarm. She can get the jist of most face to face conversations but most if her other communications are via email or text. She lives alone.
I’m just not sure I’d be happy leaving the baby with her as I don’t know how she would deal with an emergency. We won’t go to the whole wedding and will be back after the dinner but it will be the first time I’m leaving the baby probably so I am not sure it’s s good idea. Regardless, I’ve no idea how to deal with this issue. She is a lovely lady and will be a great gran. She has six other grandkids who are a lot older and her hearing was better she. They were young and her husband was alive. It’s different now. I don’t wa to offend her or deprive her but I just don’t think I can leave the baby with her.
Maybe I suggest she has s friend over to help?