to go to Glastonbury?

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DP and I got Glasto tickets for 2020, now of course moved to finally be this week! hooray!

We have a 12 week old DS who we'll be leaving with my parents. We're away tomorrow to Tuesday as having a couple of days away to recover from the festival after!

People have seemed a little judgy about this. do you think it's fine? we will of course be going anyway but interested to know what people think.

Go and enjoy yourself

Would love the jaeger bomb meet up! Always love finding parents up for a good time. I’ll drop you a message

You are aware its in the middle of a field and miles from the nearest hospital?

It just gets madder. The babies are not sentient they are not getting anything out of the “experience”. Going at 39 weeks?! Taking a ten week old? Things must have changed since I had my own kids (who are now teens and would therefore absolutely love to go unlike these babes in arms).

Yes

I'd have loved to get away from a screaming DS with 3-month colic, but GPs were not as nice as yours !

It doesn't work like that.. they come when they are ready. And hopefully your sil is able to perform an emergency c section and blood transfusion.

Oh for god sake. What is it with mums on here being all mother earth and never ever ever leaving their children and may god strike you down if you do. Shes leaving her child with its grandparents not leaving it on a strangers doorstep. When you have a child you do realise you can still have a life AND be a parent? Its fine to say you wouldnt do it yourself, absolutely fair enough but shame on you for judging another parent for having some time away. Go and enjoy glastonbury and ignore all the judgemental arses on here.

Not if the mother has to work they are not. What matters is they have good carers when parents can't be there. Don't guilt trip all the mothers who don't have the luxury of extended maternity leave.

100% agree here. Message me about a jaeger bomb

Ok phew that's a relief. Apologies I was genuinely getting concerned for your wellbeing. Have a great time x

I feel very sad for your DS, OP.
If you and your partner don't prioritise the little guy now, when he is so small and new and dependant, I can't see that you ever will.

When I become a mum, I hope I find more mum friends like you guys and less of the judgey ones!

Don’t listen to the negativity. It’s good to fit in some last fun before the baby arrives. I was at a party the night I went into labour and my DD turned out just fine

I was away from my baby from Saturday-Thursday, when she was four weeks old. (I went into hospital for an emergency op). I wasn't breastfeeding, so she didn't need me in that sense, but I was bereft to be without her and on my first day back at home, she would only sleep in my arms.

The whole experience felt deeply unnatural, and when I could hear her in the background of phonecalls with my husband, it was like a physical pain. I can't imagine enjoying any festival enough to make that worthwhile.

Of the developed world the USA has the lowest paid mat leave (zero weeks!). It also has some of the worst rates of infant mortality. This link has been established with other countries as well

Correlation != Causation

Poverty is the overriding feature in high infant mortality, not the length of maternity leave.

But way to go putting the fear of Om into women who don't have that choice.

Go and enjoy yourself, it takes a village!
I don’t judge parents who leave them young, I don’t judge parents who ‘have never had a night away from them in 4 years’.
Neither are wrong, we’re all so different.

You don't have to be a 'mother earth' type to not want to leave your baby for just under a week.