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[quote=Anonymous]OP here - thanks for the thoughts.  To answer some of the Qs

1) I currently have a 2yo and newborn and when i'm back at work travel occasionally. The 2yo is a great sleeper except when he's sick and then he's miserable and just wants to be held for hours.  If it makes him feel better, that's what i'm going to do - some kids need physical comfort and others don't

2) By snap I mean say something harsh like "go the f to sleep"if they'd been crying for a long time and potentially leaving them in their crib after making sure there wasn't vomit or something, I have no concerns that DH would physically hurt the kids - just not be able to provide them with hours of comfort if say they got the stomach flu in the middle of the night

3) The medication is a tranquilizer to control severe anxiety that manifested itself as early morning panic attacks.  He found this one which works beautifully (in conjunction with other drugs) after trying many other treatments. Neither of us think its in the best interest of our family to start messing with his medications which pretty much fully eliminate his anxiety

With a newborn I'm obviously not going anywhere soon but it sounds like maybe 4 or so might be the right age eventually - when the kids could communicate more and don't necessarily need as much physical comfort when sick.  Before that I can see leaving them for one night with everyone healthy but for longer trips would likely at least want someone that could come stay the nights if someone got sick - even just for my peace of mind.  [/quote]

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