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My mom doesn't like coming to our house to babysit either which poses issues for his sleep too. But if I need a sitter she is my first call. We make it work. But she's only babysat him maybe two-three times in 6 months?? Once my brother babysat here, he was our first ever babysitter! I would have him do it again, but not for more than a few hours. he'll be a better sitter when Cobi is older.

I would call my sister too.

Other than that we don't have any other babysitters but have never had the need either. I know several of my moms friends would if I needed one!

We have a sitter who is friends with my weekly cleaner so we will call her a few times a year. If we didn't have her, then I am not sure we would ever go out since we don't have family in the same state.

We've only had our parents babysit. I was just talking with dh about this last night because I know I'm a crazy person, I'm sure lo would be fine with someone else! But our parents both live close and my mom is able to take off work when needed, plus I think she'd be upset if I hired someone instead of asked her.

We found our sitter through a website, she came to our house for a year and a half, but now she's off doing some schooling, so we are without a sitter again.

It's hard, when you either don't have parents closeby or they are working and can't take time off.

Our LO isn't here yet. But we have no family near by so that's not an option for us. But we have a number of friends who have already offered. Plus our next door neighbor has two babysitters she uses and really trusts (one is her neice) so we will use them as well. I definitely don't want to be one of those couples who never has a date night because I don't have / won't use a sitter.

My MIL and parents. My parents don't live nearby though!

My MIL has come for weekends when we had to go away, and that has worked out just fine. My parents watched Wagon Jr. when we were in the hospital having Lil Miss Wagon. But now that we have 2, I'm not so sure I'd ask any of the grandparents to babysit until Lil Miss Wagon is around 2 or 3 years old. Just too much of a burden to ask them to wrangle them both!

We have a very close friend who lives 5 mins away who loves our kids and actively tries to be a part of their lives (she's an angel), and she volunteers to babysit at least once a month. She's put Wagon Jr. down for bedtime before, but since she's so close by, we usually put him to bed ourselves and she just watches him while he's sleeping as we go out to dinner. We'll probably continue to have her sit for us with both kids in the post-bedtime way so that we can have regular date nights.

Luckily both sets of parents are close and our best options. Otherwise my sisters are close and my DH's cousin is close too and already says she has dips after grandparents! We trust them all.

Nobody... My mom is close but due to health reasons isn't able to watch LO. My sil has watched LO for an hour or so while I ran errands but that's the longest anyone other than me or DH has watched over. Not sure if I could trust non family to watch her yet since she's only six months old...

My sister and best friend are our most frequent babysitters, although they both live more than an hour away. Also my in-laws have done it a lot even though they live in a different state (but are retired), so if I know in advance, I can ask them.

I'm planning on asking our neighbors with kids if they have anyone they recommend as we just moved 70 miles.

A co-worker of mine has watched LO for us, she is our go to if needed. My family is 3 hours away, they do watch her when we visit or when they come stay with us. DH's parents are smoker/ drinkers and cant follow instrctions to save their life. And SIL would but she is 38 weeks pregnant.

We're very fortunate that my MIL is 15 min away and my parents are pretty close. They both watch her at least once a week and she has slept over both of their houses. It's convenient enough for my MIL to come at night too when we want to go out on weekends.