Got a few raised eyebrows last night and a slightly pearl-clutchy comment, and want to sense-check the situation...
DD1 is nearly 3 and an excellent sleeper, DD2 is 7m and is fairly good, but pretty much exclusively needs to be fed back to sleep in the night.
We went out to a party, literally 15 doors down, and left the girls with over-the-road's 13yr old daughter. Her mum and dad were home, 30secs away, and we were 1min down the road.
At one point, DD2 woke up, so the sitter called me, I ran home, fed her, resettled her, and went back to the party. Raised eyebrows and clutchy comment on our return.
I genuinely hadn't thought anything about the situation was out of order, I felt completely comfortable with it, and was babysitting myself at a similar age, but pretty much everyone else at the party had left their kids with grandparents, no one else had a teen babysitter, and everyone seemed pretty shocked I'd left a baby who was likely to wake and need me.
Combination of slight next day booze blues and the standard fear that other people will think I'm a bad mum is making me worried we were irresponsible.