The thing about kids who sleep really well is, we know they sleep well at home. In hotels things can be different. It smells different, there are different light patterns, different noises, etc.

My kids normally sleep like logs. But when we travel, all bets are off. I hear them wake and sort out where they are and then try to put themselves back to sleep, often.

What happened to Madeline McCann is a non-issue. The reason we bring it up is that it is so unusual.

Anonymous wrote:This should answer it for you


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann

Immediately thought of Madeleine. Yeah, don't do this.

I did this in a small boutique hotel in another country where we were staying with a large group of family, mostly because the rest of the group pressured me to do it. We were staying on the second floor. I put DD to bed and came down to the dining room on the first floor for dinner.

I wasn't happy about it. It felt awkward. I was worried the whole time about what if there was an emergency. The rest of the nights of our stay, I refused.

Anonymous wrote:OP here... I wasn't because it sounds wrong but a lot of people told me to so I could pop by my husbands work function a floor below. I was surprised when people thought I was odd to skip it and stay upstairs with our son.

I might do it for 15 minutes, given the monitor works from that distance.

OP here... I wasn't because it sounds wrong but a lot of people told me to so I could pop by my husbands work function a floor below. I was surprised when people thought I was odd to skip it and stay upstairs with our son.

I have been tempted, too, but I have never done it. I can't bring myself to do it because of the risk of fires and then being physically unable to get up there to evacuate him. My DH and I have sat in the elevator lobby on the same floor to chat/plan the next day without having to whisper with a monitor, and that felt better because it eliminated the need to use an elevator or multiple flights of stairs to get to him if we needed to.

We did this at a bed and breakfast where we were attending a wedding. The reception was literally in the room below where the kid was sleeping. I have no idea how dd slept in that room with a 5 piece jazz band directly beneath her, but she managed. We had a monitor.

I don't think I'd do it in a traditional hotel.

You are really considering this?

Let's throw out an emergency scenario. The fire alarm goes off. What would you do?

Madeline McCann. don't do it.

This should answer it for you


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann

I'd go to a vending or ice machine on the same floor. You're crazy.

It's different from being in a home in that you can't run up a short flight of stairs to get there in the (granted, rare) event something were to happen.

Pay for a babysitter or watch your kid. That is neglect. What if there were a fire and you couldn't get to your kid. What is so important that you can't stay in the room with your kid?

For 5 minutes I would. For anything longer or dinner or drinks? NO.

Sounds wrong, right? Or is it? Has anyone left their sleeping 2 year old who never wakes up in a crib while their are sleeping in a hotel room alone to go downstairs in the same building while you had a video monitor on them at all times? It seems wrong but is it any different that being on another floor of a home?