There is nothing wrong with leaving the child with his grandmother for one night, but there is one fact that you have to take into account, it is not important whether she will get tired, but whether she wants to take care of the child. The truth is, she doesn't have to look after children, and you can only leave it to her if she wants to. "and why is it difficult for us with one" There are several explanations for this question and no one can say what exactly applies to you if he does not know you personally. Some women just get bored of them, others are used to someone taking care of them, and when the time comes when they have to not only take care of themselves, but also take care of a baby, a problem arises. Others invent all sorts of obligations, ostensibly for the benefit of the child, which complicate their lives. Others are used to hanging around and not being able to make a plan for the day, all day left to right and nothing done at the end and they are super tired. Fourth are accustomed, that is, they have a kind of dependence on FB or TV and spend most of the day on the Internet or with TV. There are many other types of reasons, and it is possible that the situation is a combination of several or all reasons. For the time "before" these problems did not exist, because all women long before they became mothers were taught a lot of hard physical work from an early age and looking after children at home of such women is seen as a song. Plus, when looking after several children and housekeeping without laundry, dishwashing, etc., they did not have time to invent unnecessary obligations. Did they get tired, oh yes, but they were so used to fatigue that they were unfamiliar with the feeling of rest, and not as a small shock to the body now. They didn't know the rest, they did not imagine that it was possible for any of them to leave the child with the grandmother and go to a spa in Velingrad with her husband for a weekend, they never dreamed of such things. If you wish, I can describe a day to the mother of a small baby from 50 years ago or from 100 years ago to understand that today's woman could not cope with a quarter of the work that women did then. Because in fact you list that today there were laundries and dishwashers, but you forget that today there are diapers, today there are seamstresses and shops with ready-made clothes, sheets and tablecloths, today there are vegetables, fruits and meat in the shops, there are semi-finished foods, etc. She thought of washing diapers and weaving them herself, and sewing her husband's shirts and clothes and spinning and weaving all the home textiles, sowing potatoes, digging them and taking them out of the garden before you cook and the chicken should not be plucked and cleaned on the shelf in the store, but running around the garden before you cook it in soup, add to the obligations to get up every day at 5 o'clock in the morning to milk the cow and goats, to knead the bread for the day, make and breakfast and make milk on cheese. And in order to take a bath, you must first bring water from the village fountain with a rocker, then heat it on the stove and bathe over the basin in the middle of the room with soap, which you made yourself earlier. At the same time to have babies and children. And if you dig into the history, the grandmothers started to look after grandchildren only after the middle of the society, until then they had enough obligations, they were exhausted early in the 40s and the average life expectancy was about 50 years, and they gave birth to 40 years. age. Daughters-in-law often raised brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law because when the mother-in-law gave birth at the age of 37-40, she was unable to raise her own child on her own, not that she stopped working, but did not have the strength to do all household chores. The mothers went with the baby to the fields and tied the swings to a tree near the fields they were digging, their rest was to feed the baby. Do you have any idea how many people in the early 20th century were born at the levels in BG? And even if she gives birth before noon or at noon, no one leaves the fields to pick up the mother and the child, they leave her lying under the tree or under the cart in the shade, and the relatives continue to dig and return until the evening. The attention with which today's mothers are surrounded could not be dreamed of. From the first day after birth, they looked after their own children,
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Who are the others watching without help? Which ones? Specifically and by name. Because if you dig, it will turn out not to be so. I look after a seventh year child almost without help, hey hell. Three evenings a year babysitter three grandmothers. One weekend for those six years we went somewhere alone - two nights. Honestly, I need to leave in a week. Because you really don't have a vacation. On vacation - you're a mother again. Everywhere and always. I can't give it to his grandmother for a week, he hardly knows her. The others around me - the child is with his grandmother on the weekends, he goes to the sea with his grandmother, during the holidays he is with his grandmother. In the evening, if they go out - with his grandmother. I envy them, honestly. It's an incredible relief, and if I had a grandmother on hand, I wouldn't think about using it. Don't be a hero, but harness it, it won't get tired. In addition, he will then be able to rest. And you don't.