You must be related to the woman who posted here who left her special-needs two-year-old at home at Christmas while she, her husband, and their older child went on a tropical international beach vacation for a week.

Anonymous wrote:You don't leave your 4.5 month old alone with a stranger for 8 days. Not safe for the baby, huge liability for the nanny, and just crappy parenting. Hopefully you'll come to see how ridiculous this idea is.

No high quality childcare is available like that. Responsible people have jobs and obligations. I do have an idea for extremely long multi-day childcare: adoption.

Anonymous wrote:Ok OP is probably a troll, but for all the newbie or soon to be newbie moms….the infant days are the easiest time for travel. They are portable, can sleep in a carrier or in a stroller. I wish I could go back and travel more before they became toddlers.

This is what people always told me when I was pregnant with my first. I believed them. Then the baby came and yeah... he was basically never easy or portable. It's possible that my second one had a temperament that would have allowed that, but of course, at that point, we also had a toddler.