OK-I'm hoping for some input and I'm sure this is probably silly. Next week my husband has a conference at a beautiful resort about 6 hours away from where we live. He really wants me to come with him but I have NEVER left my kids for a whole week-they're 3 and 1.5. I will take our 1 month old with us IF I go. My girls would stay at my parents house for the week. My kids totally love and trust my parents and due to the amount of ice cream given to them at grandma and grandpas house would almost rather be there, I suspect.

Despite all this-I am COMPLETELY freaked out about leaving for this amount of time...my husband will be tied up in meetings most days, but we'd still have the evenings. The down time would be fabulous and I would get a chance to hang out with my new little guy one on one, I'd get to do some real shopping because we live in the middle of nowhere and it's a real treat to go to an actual city, I could finish Harry Potter, etc...

...all the same I feel like I'm trying to convince myself I should do this. I envision myself sitting around in the hotel, longing for the chaos of my kids.

I know no one can make this decision for me-and it's probably due to hormones that I am so stressed about this whole thing. Do any of you have good experiences having taken leave of the little ones for a while  (despite reservations) or any regrets?

With my middle child I had this problem and I tried everything everyone has mentioned, the fenugreek...the stout beer-I noticed pumping helped the most-for a couple days, do it like clockwork every two hours and I would even wake up once during the night to pump. For the few days it took my milk to rebound, I just gave my daughter a bottle while I pumped. I did this all because I was so worried, but unless your child isn't gaining weight chances are your milk supply is ok, but has just matured to where you don't get the build up that you were getting and sometimes even the let down sensation can weaken or even disappear-this doesn't necessarily mean that you're not producing though. All the same, I know it's scary and that's why I did what I did, so good luck.

i did this too and found each night got easier. i really liked mary's suggestion though about going away or even maybe letting your husband do bedtimes for a bit.

good luck-i know it's tough.

Hi there! I just had my third baby too, and it sounds like my kids are spaced just like yours. My weight after this third baby is also not coming off like it did after the other two. It's driving me nuts too--and my body just looks really different this time around. I attribute the weight thing to the fact that I don't actually get to sit down and eat normal food, all I do is snack all day long because it's all I have time for...and work out? I wish-you're AWESOME if you're doing it!!!

Don't worry-it'll happen :-) 

They're totally adaptable! The first nights no matter WHEN you do it are going to be hard. If you do it early, you have the baby crying-if you wait you have giggling, talking and crying. I moved my girls into the same room at 18 months and 3 yrs. The first few weeks were a nightmare!!!! The little one would NOT sleep, she would scream and scream and scream and my older girl would totally freak out because the little one was hysterical.

 The good news : IT STOPPED!!! It took them a little while, but now even when one of them wakes up in the night and starts yelling-the other one doesn't usually even flinch!

So if you want your girls to share a room, no matter when you do it there will be a short period of adjustment, but it should be only that- a short period.

 Good luck! I am so glad we moved our girls together-they love it now and most nights they go right to bed and on the nights they don't my husband and I sit and listen at the monitor to the FUNNIEST conversations we've ever heard...and when they're done talking about whatever it is they're talking about, they fall quietly to sleep.

 Good luck!

1. I have long ago given up the getting dressed fight. I let my kids pick whatever they want to wear (except to church and they don't usually fight me on it because I always say, today is the day we wear what mommy says and you can pick again tomorrow), weather permitting and even if the striped pants, polka dotted shirt and orange galoshes make me cringe, they never fight me on what THEY want to wear and they actually let me dress them if it's their choice of clothes...and it's amazing but they DO pick out cute outfits-sometimes. I've also noticed if what they're wearing is ESPECIALLY hideous, a grandmother usually stops me in the grocery store and says "I remember those days" with a chuckle...that makes me smile too.

2. I only have potty trained girls thus far, but I had them both potty trained within 2 weeks by commiting to absolutely NO diapers (except to sleep but then we changed the name to night-night pants). This isn't realisitic for everyone, but if you're at home you can pick a quiet 2 weeks and commit to going nowhere, so that you can develop strong cues. I also bribed with M&Ms (2 for pee, 4 for poop) only if they actually WENT on the potty, so they wanted to tell me (50 times some days) because that meant they got M&Ms. A friend of mine, in conjunction with the M&Ms gave sticker each day there was NO accident, and after 5 days or so her child got to go pick out a toy. All my friends with boys though have said that they've tried those sorts of things and waiting a while was the only thing that worked. Good luck!

I flew a lot with my girls from the time they were 2 months old through now and I found that under the age of 1 if I could get them to sleep with a bottle or nursing they slept like ROCKS for the entire duration of the flight. I think it was the vibration and engine noise. I always dreaded flying with them and each time I was pleasantly surprised. Several of the trips were cross country trips, with multiple plane changes and even so, they always fell asleep as soon as the plane got moving and STAYED asleep in my arms until I woke them.

Good luck! You'll do great, most people are so helpful and friendly!

It sounds like you might be looking for some logistical ideas as far as training a girl and not being able to have somewhere for her to go at all times.

With both my girls who were potty trained months before they turned 2, if we left the house we took our potty seat with us! It went EVERYWHERE we did.

I have also seen a Baby Bjorn potty chair that teaches little girls to potty while squatting down. My friend who has it waited until her little girl was 2.5/closer to 3 to potty train, so I don't know how it would work with a little one! My little girl, who was 20 months at the time did use it once while we were over there and she had no trouble!

Good luck!