Leaving my baby dilemma - what would you do?

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We're due to go skiing on Sunday.
Due to our own stupidity it seems unlikely that we will get a passport for ds (6 months) in time for him to come.
My mum has offered to look after him for the week but he's very little, still wakes up once or twice in the night and I think is more work than she realises, and she'll be on her own as my dad is coming with us.
Another option is to leave him at our flat in London and have his nanny to be (starting March 1st) move in and look after him for the week. But he doesn't know her yet, it will mean leaving him for 8 days and it will be very expensive.
Or I could stay behind and let dh go with dd.
What would you do?

Couldnt you change your flight and have a long weekend, a sort of compromise might be easier to live with.

I second the motion to leave him with your mum and have the new nanny help out. No way would I leave him with someone he didn't know. I wish I had taken a break when ds was 6 months. It would have been good to recharge me I think.

Your mum is a mum too. She knows how tiring babies are. She can cope. How genuine is her offer to help? (I mean would she be secretly relieved or diappointed if you get the passport?)

I think she'll probably be relieved if we get the passport but her offer is genuine - she doesn't want us disappointing dd or not having our looked forward to holiday and I think she would like the chance to bond more with ds who she already loves but who doesn't see much of her - however she knows it will be hard work and she was quite looking forward to a relaxing week without my dad and his pesky dog.
We can't really change flights etc as it's all part of a week long package but if she really cant cope or if I miss ds too much then I will get an Easy Jet and come home early.
You can see I've basically decided to go.
Have contacted passport office this morning and "my son's passport is waiting to go to the examiner". No idea whether that's promising or not.

Hope you have a fabulous time - and I bet DD will love have mummy all to herself (and your mum will enjoy not having your dad and his dog around - my mum's just the same LOVES it when dad is out as she gets some piece an quiet LOL)