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[quote=Anonymous]This thread was locked instead of moved so I'm hoping to restart it.  Here is the link to it: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/640328.page and in case it disappears, here is what I originally wrote:

I wasn't sure how to title this but basically my family is in a predicament. I NEED to travel for work for a week (I may be able to shorten it some but not all) and my wife and son can't be alone. My wife is currently pregnant (not far along so only our parents know) but having a troubled pregnancy so needs to take things easy. She can go to work and things but can't do a lot of things for our very physical 2 year old. Also, she has had to go to the hospital a few times and shouldn't be alone in case that happens again. My parents will be away, her parents are too ill, we have no friends that don't have children. My only solution is to hire someone to help in the early am and in the evenings and overnight. Where does one even look for this very specific type of care? Does anyone have any other ideas that I could be missing?

I also added this information later on as well:
Thanks for the feedback so far. I will look into all these various agencies. I started to look a bit on care.com and sittercity but was not impressed with the people on there but I didn't do a deep dive.

To answer some questions, we don't need 24/7 coverage but close. My wife does work nearby and is able to go to work my son goes to daycare. I would want someone to be there from 6pm-6am daily.

No one knows about the pregnancy outside of immediate family yet and because of the issues we don't feel comfortable sharing. We also only have 2 close friends mutual in the area and both are married with children. My wife has some friends but she met them though work and we don't want to mix business and work. Regardless, everyone has families of their own and no one has nannies.

The trip in a little over a week so soon. We were hoping something would work out with family but that has fallen though.

My wife is quite nervous at the moment because of her and our baby's health but she isn't just a "nervous mom". She is the most put together, stiff upper lip type of person I know. She often takes care of our child for long stretches while I travel. She just started to experience some complications almost 2 weeks ago and is on some restrictions.

I would love if my wife could come with me but I think we both want her to stay close to her doctors and not be on a plane across the country. Also, even if this was just a case of her being nervous not unwell, we couldn't afford two last minute plane tickets and she couldn't afford the time off when she works for a company that is too small for FMLA and has to take sick and personal time for her maternity leave at the end of the year.

I know there are a lot of roadblocks but that is just our reality. I would think someone else has been in a slightly similar position[/quote]

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