Leaving 14 month olds for 4 days--reassurance, please!

[Linguaphile]

DH and I are having our first real getaway from our 14 month old twins since they were born, and we'll be leaving them with their very eager aunt/uncle/cousins and grandparents for four whole nights. I've been looking forward to this trip for months as we are both exhausted and desperately in need of some together time, but I can't help but feel like a bad mother for leaving my children!!

Can someone please reassure me that I'm just being a typical PFB mum and that they won't be scarred for life by this? I've really surprised myself by feeling this way as am normally not precious at all and am theoretically in full support of parents getting some time together away from the kids. I just worry that their happy-go-lucky little psyches will be traumatised. :(

They will be fine. I left mine from about 6 months for up to a week for work/ vacation. It's really good for you as you don't end up resenting them for stopping you like some seem to.

Just think, worse case senario is granny and aunts/ uncles end up playing with babies all evening until they fall asleep in arms after eating more cake than you would prefer.

They will be fine. I am very very jealous of 4 whole days away!

I love my DD with a passion, but the longest I have left her for is 2 days / nights. You will miss them more than they will miss you, I guarantee/

Have they stayed away before ? My now 16mo dd has stayed with her grand parents only a handful of times but when I had ds 4 weeks ago she stayed with them for 2 nights .

When we brought ds home she looke at us, said hi and went back to what she was doing ! She'd had a great time and couldn't care less that we hadn't been there

I had spent a lot of my pregnancy worrying about leaving her and I really needn't have at all !

I'm sure they'll have a fantastic time with your family and hope you have a relaxing break !

They will have a lovely time and so will you.

Very jealous, I have to leave ds1 (4) and ds2 (15 months) for a week next month for a super dull work trip :-(

Have a lovely time.... you must have a lovely family agreeing to 4 days with twins....

Enjoy

Thanks all--yes, they are a lovely family. :) Feeling a bit better about it now, and hopefully they'll enjoy spending time with someone other than me for a few days!