Holidays without baby - Has anyone left there baby’s under one for a few days/week?

All I’ll tell you is my experience. We are going to France for a wedding in May. We made the arrangements before our baby was born in November and our parents agreed to watch her that week. The first two months we didn’t think about the trip (newborn trenches) but then…. we decided we’ll bring her along. I personally can’t stand the thought of leaving her until we can actually speak and I can explain to her what’s going on. So you may indeed feel differently once your baby is born - I absolutely did/do. But you might not! For us, it was easy to just decide to bring her along.

It’s a small amount of time and baby is old enough for solids. And probably young enough to be easy on your parents if they are older.
If it was longer than a week or if I was still breast feeding I’d probably take baby with me. But if you trust your parents I don’t see an issue.

I probably wouldn’t have booked it until after you’ve had you’re baby as you won’t know how you feel even if they’ll be 9/10 months. I’ve only left my son with my stepmum for a night whilst in hospital having my second as he won’t go to bed for anyone else (we’ve tried but going to have to just wait until he’s older), fingers crossed you get to enjoy your holiday though

I looked after my nephew for 2 nights at 9mo as sister had a wedding to go to. He was fine no issues but she suffered sleep issues for a week after 😂

Just to make sure things run smoothly I would make sure your parents have lots of time with the baby before the trip so they are all comfortable together without you.

My baby is 9 months old and there is nooooo way I could leave her for that long and be that far away 😅 we have done quite a lot of date days/nights and she’s been with grandparents but I haven’t managed to do even one overnight away from her yet and when we do leave her in the day I like to be able to get back to her within a reasonable amount of time (1-2 hrs drive feels comfortable at the moment).

We are planning to take grandparents with us when we go away next year so we can still enjoy some holiday time alone (basically bringing the babysitters with us 😂) but also be with our baby too cause we would miss her WAAAAY too much and I don’t think I’d be able to relax being far away from her😭😂

It’s true about not knowing how you’ll feel until you have the baby, I’m way more nervous and care more about leaving her than I thought I would be when I was pregnant 😅