When each of our babes were babies, they came with us everywhere. We didn’t leave them with family to baby-sit for us for any reason. It probably wasn’t until they were at least 1 year old that we let them stay with someone other than ourselves.

Now it’s not that we don’t trust our family to look after our children. It’s because they are my babies and I develop a very close attachment to them, as they do with me, and I don’t want anyone else to look after them. This may be weird to some people but this is how I was with each of them and this is how I am with Baby A too.

So lately a certain family member has been trying to make me feel guilty because I won’t let her baby-sit Baby A. She keeps saying things like “I’ve looked after “—-” and she’s still alive!”

How can I get her to understand that it’s not that I don’t trust her, (she’s looked after my older babes many times), it’s just that the baby stays with me. I’m even like this with DH sometimes. He says I should leave Baby A with him while I go shopping or whatever but I prefer to take her with me.

Am I just too over-protective of my babies?