DS is nearly 9.5mths and so far I haven't been apart from him for more than a few hours. I don't mind leaving him with my PIL for a couple of hours in the afternoon to go to my language lesson or with my DH while I get some shopping done, but I now have offers from the PIL and the SIL to sit with him at night to let me and DH go to the pictures or whatever but I still don't feel that great about taking them up on it. (As some of you know my DH is only home weekends, so I am usually on my own with DS 5/7 days a week)
My SIL has no baby experience (although she is now in early stages of pregnancy) and I consider my PIL to be a bit rusty and not all that confident or respectful of my parenting preferences.
My FIL won tickets to a UEFA Soccer game and I've never been to a European soccer game and I knocked them back even though a voice in my head was telling me I should just bite it and go and let MIL mind him. In the last 12mths I have been to the pictures once, when I used to go once a week when I lived Downunder.
DS usually sleeps through from 7pm to 7am, but will occasionally have a little cry but settle back himself or very occasionally may need to be resettled with the very discreet introduction of those little homeopathic camomile balls that just remind him to suck his thumb. I worry that at the first peep they will pick him up and I'll come home and he will have been up for hours and then I'd have to bfeed him back to sleep and then it would take a couple of days to get him back in his lovely GF routine.
I guess I also worry about the stress on the sitters if this happens and that they will think I lie about my lovely boy.
I guess I'm just a control freak who thinks she is irreplaceable. How did you guys get over reluctance to leave baby?