Hey just wondering if any of you still haven't spent a night away from your little one. I get so nervous thinking about not being with DS for one night. DH thinks I have detachment issues, but I tell him he could leave for the night and I would still be perfectly fine. I just don't want to leave DS for the night. Do any of you still refuse to leave your LO at grandma's for the night? Or am I a little ridiculous like DH says?
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Pretty much this, exactly. We've left him here with MIL while going out (after I've put him to sleep) and both times we got back and he had been up for an hour+. It's like he knows to wake up (he never wakes up before 3:30 when we're here), and then she can't get him back to sleep.
We will leave him at my parent's house, go out for a while, and then come home and spend the night at their place because he doesn't STTN. They've said as soon as he is, he's welcome to spend the night, but until then, they don't want to have to get up with him in the middle of the night. I understand that.
As for having anxiety about leaving your LO- a very close friend of mine is like this. She has gone out twice- once to target where she cried and came home and the other time she went out with friend and left her DD with her mother. It went better, but she only stayed out for 2 hours. That's the longest she's been away from her. She doesn't even leave the LO with the father (not because she doesn't think the father is capable). She just has anxiety about it.
If you feel like you're having a little anxiety about leaving your LO, I would push yourself a little, take it slow with the length of time you're gone, but work up to an overnight.
Maybe once every 3 months they spend the night at grandma's ! They love it there but they also STTN.