My son will be 14mo tomorrow. In a week and a half, I am going on a 4-day / 3-night business trip. The only other time I have been away from him overnight was when he slept over at his grandparents' house for one night right after his first birthday.

I think he is going to spend the first of my three nights away with his grandparents again, and then he will be home with his dad and his nanny for the other two nights. He knows my parents really well because they watch him two afternoons per week.

I have tried to tell him a couple of times that I am going to go away to get him used to the idea in advance, but it's impossible to know how much he can understand.

Is there anything else I should do to help prepare him? I assume he will be fine, but I still feel weird about it. My husband told me that when I get home from work later than usual, he always looks at the entrance to our apartment and says "mama". I will also try to FaceTime with him while I'm gone.