(Sorry- long post)
My DD will be 1 year old next week and I've never left her with anyone else apart from for a couple of evenings my mum has sat downstairs after I've put her to bed myself and less than a handful of times where my husband has taken her for a short period of time (2hrs or less) I'm not a crazy clingy parent it's just the help really hasn't been there for me no one has volunteered to take her overnight or even during the day for a couple of hours so it's been us 24/7 (I'm not complaining she's my responsibility not anyone else's...)
Anyway my husband and I have been invited to a wedding (no kids) and that would mean leaving her with my MIL for a whole day and night, (the venue is over an hour away from her house and we booked a hotel room). This was all planned months and months ago as weddings are and I assumed that by then she would have experience of staying away from me. She does like my MIL but we don't live near her so she's only seen her maybe once a month. She's a very capable woman (a health visitor so knows what she's doing!) but I'm not sure if I can do it. My LO is in a clingy phase and I just don't know if it's fair to leave her for so long from nothing?!
I'm really at the point now where I need to decide. Not going to the wedding will reflect badly on me with my husband's friends but I feel horribly nervous about it. What would you do?