For Rebecca Eckler, a Canadian journalist, it was after 10 weeks when she took a vacation and left her newborn son with her fiancé's mother and the nanny. Eckler never thought taking a vacation would generate the backlash from readers of her recently published article.
Eckler told ABC News, "I think a happy mom makes a happy child and you know your child better than anyone else. Everybody's going to have an opinion about something including this."
Eckler admitted in her blog that her six-day trip was "… a vacation for me … since I can't read the mind of a 2-month-old baby, I'm not sure he's really going to miss me."
She added: "Yes, I'm ditching my baby… I think that, even from his early age, I'm teaching him a sense of independence."
Fellow Mommyish.com blogger Lindsay Cross had a different opinion. "When my daughter was young, spending a night away would have been more stressful than relaxing," she said.
One reader said Eckler is "self-indulgent," adding that "if you need a weekend away after only 10 weeks, you weren't ready to become parents."
In Eckler's defense, this is her second child and she admits in her story that she didn't leave her daughter for a night until she was 3 months old. "I spent my night looking at photographs of her, calling my parents every 30 minutes to see if she was all right," she wrote. "But I was a first-time mother then.
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